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Swift, Lautner: Taylor-Made for Cutest Date Night Ever

12/05/2009 12:29:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It doesn't get much more wholesome than this.


Proving that they are in fact the antidote to oversexed, oddly tatted teen stars, Taylors Swift and Lautner continued their campaign of low-key and PG canoodling last night, cozying up on—and OMG off!—set.

While, save for the odd trip to the hockey rink, the only lovey-dovey Tay-Squared sightings we're normally privy to take place in front of the Valentine's Day cameras, last night was apparently date night for the dynamic duo.

Fresh off of dominating the Grammy nominations and box office, respectively, the couple started the day by filming a few more scenes for their star-studded romantic comedy before leaving the set together in Lautner's no doubt New Moon-funded gray Porsche Turbo.



They wasted no time in getting their hibachi on, dining at nearby Japanese fave Benihana before making their way, parental entourage in tow, to the nearby Menchie's. While there, the Taylors, along with Swift's mother and bodyguard, all dug into some self-serve frozen yogurt, but not before taking time to pose with fans.

It's so sweet, you could get a cavity just thinking about it.

Microsoft "Runs Out" of Cheaper Windows 7 Family Packs, Just In Time For Christmas

12/05/2009 12:29:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Pack was a great offer, bundling three full Home Premium upgrades for $150. It was also a limited time deal, but without a set terminus. Well, now we have an expiration date: gift-buying season.

Paul Thurrott traces the arc from start to finish:

When Microsoft first briefed me about the Family Pack back in July, I was told that it would be a limited-time offer "until supplies last" (sic) in the United States and "other select markets." I communicated Microsoft plans for the Family Pack in various articles over the next few months, noting that it was a temporary offer only.

Unfortunately, that's just now becoming obvious to potential customers here in the United States, where the Family Pack has apparently completely disappeared. Numerous email messages this week complain that attempts to find the Windows 7 Family Pack online or at brick-and-mortar electronics retailers have proven fruitless, killing plans for planned holiday presents.

In other words, stocks have run dry, as Microsoft said they eventually would. Minor issue! Seeing as Windows 7 is software, any limit on the supply is totally self-enforced. It's possible that they set aside a certain number of licenses at launch, and they've just burned through them faster than planned. It's also possible that they planned this arbitrary supply excuse so they don't look like assholes when the cost of upgrading a household's worth of PCs to Windows 7 suddenly doubles right before Christmas.

How am I supposed to tell my parents I love them this Christmas, if not with a box of vouchers for OS upgrade licenses?

What's Eminem Saying About Adam Lambert On 'Elevator'?

12/05/2009 12:27:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Song's lyrics, also directed at Lance Bass and Clay Aiken, can be perceived as containing anti-gay slur.

Late Thursday, a pair of brand-new Eminem tracks from his upcoming Relapse: Refill album hit the Internet, and while both are filled with his trademark lyrical irreverence, a line in one of the songs — "Elevator" — is raising more than a few eyebrows.

In the track, Em jabs at former 'NSYNC member Lance Bass and a pair of former "American Idol" contestants, Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert, all of whom are openly gay. While the actual wording of the lyric is in question, here's what Eminem appears to be rapping, according to several sites, including ThisIs50.com:

"Sorry, Lance, Mr. Lambert and Aiken ain't gonna make it/ They get so mad, when I call them both fake/ It's all these f---ing voices in my head, I can't take it/ Someone shut that f---ing baby up, before I shake it."

However, as gay-news site Towleroad.com has noted, "fake it's" sounds phonetically like "f----ts," a similarity that they claim is anything but coincidental, given the rapper's previous history with the word.

"Eminem cleverly avoids using the word 'f----ts" in his new song 'Elevator' when referring to Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, replacing it with the words 'fake it's,' " site founder Andy Towle writes in a post. "Of course, phonetically, it sounds just like 'f----ts.' "

Contacted by MTV News on Friday (December 4), a label rep for Eminem had no comment, and official lyrics for the song were not available at press time.

At the moment, Lambert seems to be leaning toward the less provocative lyric. On his Twitter account Thursday night, Lambert wrote, "Wow, Eminem mentioned me in a song?! I must be doing something right!? Even if he used the 'F word,' whatever," then followed that up with a second tweet, which reads: "Oh, he says 'fake it.' My bad."

In 2001, Eminem drew the ire of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation over his use of gay slurs on songs like "Kill You" and "Criminal" — from his The Marshall Mathers LP — which featured lines like "You f----ts keep eggin' me on/ Till I have you at knifepoint, then you beg me to stop," and "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/ That'll stab you in the head/ Whether you're a f-g or a lez."

GLAAD called the lyrics "homophobic" and "hate filled," and protested outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles during the 2001 Grammy Awards, where Eminem was nominated for a number of awards, including Album of the Year. During the show, Em answered his critics by performing a now-famous duet with Elton John, which ended with the two embracing and Eminem giving the finger to the crowd.

In the lead-up to the 2001 Grammys, Moby also famously called Eminem "a homophobe," which Em responded to by referring to the DJ/producer as a "36-year-old, bald-headed f-g" on the song "Without Me," and threatening to fight him during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. Eminem said in interviews at the time that the content of his songs shouldn't be taken literally, and told MTV News' Kurt Loder, "I think that some people are a little too uptight, and take things a little bit too seriously."

Da S : God will send me a man

12/05/2009 12:27:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Yesterday, DaS Barbie Xu came to Shanghai to attend a christmas tree lighting event, she made a christmas wish : "For next year, I hope my work will be smooth." Asked if she had hopes for a new year for next year, DaS said with confidence : "I'm not worried about that, God will send me a man, he'll appear at the right time."

Yesterday, DaS appeared wearing a black gown and gorgeous crystal jewelries for Swarovski's Grand gateway's 16meters trees, and lighting the 500 thousand imitation crystal tree.

This "christmas tree" coming from Austria is worth more than 1 Million. Facing such an gigantic thing, DaS stated : "I heard that making a wish to crystal works really well !"

When the press asked her about jer love life, DaS was very confident saying "I'm not worried, God will send me a man, he'll come at the right time, I'm notanxious nor demanding. Now, my schedule is very busy, if God sends me such a "big gift" right now, I'm afraid I might not have time to manage it."

She still very honestly said that she is very happy with what she has now, she even used "perfect" to describe it : "My life is perfect, I have family, friends, that's enough, I'm very happy, it looks like the only thing I need to improve is my career. "

DaS says that for christmas she will be working and next year, movies propositions arrive non-stop, now she is like a workoholic. Except from being an actress, DaS has a bigger "scheme" she revealed "Now that many people from the entertainment business are investing for movies and dramas, I want to follow them. But, investing on things like that, for me it's more a hobby than about making money."

Microsoft tweaks browser ballot as EU antitrust deal nears

12/05/2009 12:26:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , , 0 Comments

Rivals' complaints lead to randomized choices; EU may approve changes Dec. 15, ending case

Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.

As first reported Thursday by the Bloomberg news service, Microsoft modified the ballot screen after rivals, including Opera Software and Mozilla, demanded changes. Last month, Opera, Mozilla and Google, which make the Opera, Firefox and Chrome browsers, respectively, submitted change requests to the European Commission, asking that the order of the browsers be randomized and that the ballot be displayed in its own application, not in Internet Explorer.

The EU's antitrust case, which kicked off last January, had been sparked by complaints filed by Opera in December 2007, when the Norwegian browser maker accused Microsoft of shielding IE from real competition by bundling it with Windows. To level the playing field, the commission wants Microsoft to let consumers decide which browser they use.

Previously, Microsoft had tweaked the ballot to gain the commission's preliminary approval in October. Microsoft first agreed to the ballot approach last July as a way to resolve the case.

According to the source, who asked not to be identified because the terms of the settlement have not been officially approved, the top five browsers -- IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Apple's Safari -- will appear in random order each time the ballot is displayed.

Mozilla had been the most vocal about how the ballot would display choices. Last month, for example, Jenny Boriss, a Firefox user experience designer, denigrated the ballot's layout and said that it gave IE more than three times the space than rivals' browsers because the ballot would be displayed within Internet Explorer.

Hakon Wium Lie, Opera's chief technology officer, agreed with Mozilla that randomizing the browsers on the ballot would be a better solution than Microsoft's original idea, which was to list them alphabetically by maker, a move that would put Apple's Safari in the preferred left-hand position. "Alphabetizing would just lead to opportunistic naming," Lie said in early November. "We could call ourselves AAA Browser Maker and get the first spot."

Lie also supported other changes, including removing the ballot from the framework of IE -- Microsoft's proposal would craft an HTML page to display the ballot, which would then appear inside its own browser -- and assurances that Microsoft would disable any security warning when people picked a browser to download and install. "The general security warning that you get prior to a binary download should not appear," Lie said last month.

It's unclear what other changes, if any, have been made to the ballot as proposed in October.

The deal may be finalized as early as Dec. 15, when EU commissioners meet to vote on a number of issues, the source told Computerworld. If the date is accurate, Microsoft would begin pushing the ballot to European users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 in mid-February. The company's must release the ballot via Windows Update eight weeks after officials sign off.

When the ballot screen is approved and then delivered to PCs, users will be offered a choice of browsers only if they have set IE as the default Web application. New PCs sold in the EU will also include the ballot screen, which will appear the first time the owner tries to go on the Internet.

The ballot was not Microsoft's first choice. Last June, the company said it would ship Windows 7, then still in development, to European customers minus a browser, and leave it up to computer manufacturers, or OEMs, to decide which browser, if any, they installed. In August, Microsoft abandoned the idea, claiming it faced resistance from OEMs and corporate customers.

Mozilla and Opera declined to comment on the reports of changes and an impending agreement. Google spokesman William Echikson said in an e-mail today that his company believes "more competition in the browser space will mean greater innovation on the Web and a better user experience for people everywhere."

Currently, Microsoft still controls a majority of the browser market, although its share has tumbled in the last several years. IE accounted for 63.6% of all browsers online in November, according to U.S.-based Net Applications, while Firefox had 24.7%, Safari 4.4%, Chrome 3.9% and Opera 2.3%.

Irish metrics firm StatCounter, however, found IE's share last month was 56.6%, while Firefox'had 32.2%, Chrome 4.7%, Safari 3.7% and Opera 2%.

Amy Adams Is Pregnant

12/05/2009 12:26:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Amy Adams and fiancé Darren Legallo are expecting their first child together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The couple, who have been together seven years, met in acting class in 2001 and became engaged in July 2008.

Adams, 35, will next be seen in the romantic comedy, Leap Year, which hits theaters on Jan. 8.

Wonder Girls wins “Best Asian Artist of the Year award”

12/05/2009 12:24:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

On December 1st, the Wonder Girls held their concert in Shanghai, China and the girls got to stay an extra day in Shanghai.


On December 2nd, the MTV Style Gala 2009 awards were held in Shanghai, China and the Wonder Girls won the award for "Best Asian Artist of the Year."

The girls worked hard over the past year and they deserved it. They also looked stunning in their black dresses. Thanks to jonathan for the tip and wonderfulsworld / tom.com for sharing the photos.

Camangi WebStation pre-orders open at $399

12/05/2009 12:23:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

While Camangi’s WebStation Android slate got off to a patchy start, we’ve been curious as to what sort of price the company can bring the 7-inch touchscreen tablet in for, and now we know. Preorders are being taken for the WebStation – only in the US, Japan and Taiwan, at least at first – for $399 (unless you had an “early bird” coupon which saves you all of ten bucks) with free shipping.



That gets you a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen, WiFi b/g, GPS, a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 CPU and a battery apparently good for up to 4 days standby (with GPS and WiFi shut off) or 4-5hrs active use. Since the OS is Android 1.5 there’s also the App Market for downloading new software, but you’ll get a browser, email client and media player as standard.

Availability is said to be limited, but if you order before December 16th Camangi say you should have the WebStation by the end of the year. $399 is higher than our hoped-for target price of $300, but still seems semi-reasonable for a niche device; anybody tempted to get an order in?




TVB 42nd Anniversary Awards Results

12/05/2009 12:20:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Best Series
Rosy Business

Best Actor
Wayne Lai - Rosy Business

Best Actress
Sheren Tang - Rosy Business

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Tse - Emergency Unit

Best Supporting Actress
Susan Tse - Rosy Business

My Most Favourite Male Character
Michael Tse - Leung Siu Tong (Laughing Gor) - Emergency Unit

My Most Favourite Female Character
Tavia Yeung - Yiu Kam Ling - Beyond

Most Improved Actor
Pierre Ngo - Rosy Business, Sweetness in the Salt

Most Improved Actress
Aimee Chan - Off Pedder, Burning Flames III

Best Host
The Super Trio Show - Eric Tsang, Chin Kar Lok, Wong Cho Lam, Louis Yuen

Best Variety Show
The Club Sparkle - Hosted by Sandra Ng and Chin Kar Lok

TVB.com Popularity Award
Wayne Lai

Most Appreciated Program
One From the Heart

Best Performance of the Year
Tavia Yeung

Lifetime Achievement
Lee Tim Sing - Producer of Rosy Business, Sweetness in the Salt



What a suprise! Rosy snatched all the awards!

Microsoft, Yahoo Finalize Search Deal

12/05/2009 12:19:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google.

The companies announced the agreement, which Microsoft's Bing search engine would power Yahoo's search results, and Yahoo would provide premium search-advertising services for both companies, in July.

They had hoped to finalize the deal in late October but needed more time to work out the details.

In a statement on Friday, the companies said they hope that the transaction will close in early 2010 and that they welcome the broad support the deal has gotten from key players in the advertising industry.

"Microsoft and Yahoo believe that this deal will create a sustainable and more compelling alternative in search that can provide consumers, advertisers and publishers real choice, better value, and more innovation," the partners said.

In October, four ad executives and the president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the agreement. The DOJ is still reviewing the deal for possible antitrust concerns.

The agreement was nearly a year-and-a-half in the making, during which time Yahoo rejected acquisition offers from Microsoft. The stated goal of the arrangement is to offer stronger search competition to Google, which has about 70 percent market share. Combined, Microsoft and Yahoo make up most of the rest.

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