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Siobhan Magnus Wins The Judges Back With 'Any Man Of Mine'

4/28/2010 12:25:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

A painter. A student. A glass blower. A mother. A father. A guitarist. An idiot. Presenting. This. Show.

Ryan Seacrest may have stated the obvious at the beginning of "American Idol" Tuesday night, but predictability exited stage left soon after. In a surprising twist, Siobhan Magnus was back in top form this week while Crystal Bowersox exposed her love life for all to see.

It was Shania Twain night and in a floral relic from the 1980s, Siobhan clapped her hands to the opening beat of "Any Man of Mine." The 20-year-old Cape Cod native drummed up some good energy, prancing across the stage in kick-butt white docs. Her voice may have teetered on flatness, but the judges loved it. Even Simon - though he compared her last note to someone giving birth - thought it was fun.

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Adam Lambert Wants to Fall in Love, Work with Rihanna & more

4/28/2010 12:25:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

As he tours Europe, promotes his debut album and entertains fans at night clubs, Adam Lambert is also taking time to answer questions from reporters.

In a recent interview, for example, the singer touched on taking over Simon Cowell, working with recording legends and falling in love. A few excerpts...

On judging American Idol: "I keep hearing the rumor. Unfortunately, it's just a rumor. I would be honored to be asked - but I think at this point I'm just focusing on my career as a recording artist."

On dream duets: "To be able to work with David Bowie would be amazing, his imagination and creativity are beyond - he's an icon.

"I'd also like to sing with Christina Aguilera - I love her voice, I've been a fan since she came out and I think we would throw down and we would be loud.

"I would love to work with Rihanna - she is so down to earth and sweet and kind and friendly. Her tunes are so catchy and visually she is just giving you beauty."

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Windows 7 hits 100 million licenses mark, becomes Microsoft's fastest-selling OS

4/28/2010 12:24:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Just six months after its release, Windows 7 is now installed on one in 10 of the world's PCs, Microsoft has confirmed.


The operating system was launched on 22 October, 2009 and has gone on to sell more than 100 million licenses, making it the fastest-selling Windows OS in history according to Microsoft.

Microsoft recently reported revenues of $14.5bn for the financial quarter ended 31 March and chief financial officer Peter Klein said Windows 7 "continues to be a growth engine" — with Windows revenue up 28 percent year-on-year.

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Nokia says leaked N8 has early software, shouldn't be reviewed

4/28/2010 12:24:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


It looks like Nokia isn't too happy that its big N8 / Symbian^3 reveal this morning was tarnished by Eldar Murtazin's harsh preview of the device and OS a few days ago: in a new Conversations blog post, the company says that Eldar's "salacious headlines" masked the fact that he was looking at a "very early, pre-production prototype with dated software that is not yet ready," and that it only ships products that are "refined, tested, re-tested, evaluated, [and] tested again." Now, Eldar says the devices he examined had the very latest hardware and software, so it's a bit of a he-said-she-said at this point, but there's no denying that Nokia's definitely shipped some not-quite-ready-for-prime-time devices lately -- the N900 and Maemo 5 shipped in pretty roughed-out form, and the company itself has said the N97 was a "tremendous disappointment." How that recent history reflects on Symbian^3 and the N8 remains to be seen, but it's clear that Nokia's feeling pretty defensive about things; Eldar's been scooping Espoo's gear for years now and the company's never made a peep about it. Either that, or someone at Nokia is just trying to cash in on all this iPhone 4 drama by saying things like "we want our prototype back" and "we are not the Secret Police, and we want to maintain our culture of openness," but come on -- that would be a pretty crass publicity stunt, right? We want to believe.

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Jay Chou releases new song: "Superman Can't Fly"

4/28/2010 12:23:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

After a long wait since his last album "Capricorn", Jay Chou is back as he releases his first single on HitFM off his upcoming album "The Era".


Jay offers a glimpse into his reflections on the last 10 years through the lyrics and melody that he wrote and produced himself.

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Sandara Park casted as female lead to drama ‘My Girlfriend is a Nine-tailed fox’ with Lee SeungGi?

4/28/2010 12:23:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

With news that the upcoming midweek SBS drama ‘My girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox’ will be set for August airing, many netizens are curious as to who Nine-tailed fox (Goo MiHo), the female lead alongside Lee SeungGi to the drama, will be.


It has already been confirmed that Lee SeungGi will be the male lead to the drama. Previously Lee SeungGi shot to fame as a actor when his drama ‘Brilliant Legacy’ received overwhelming responses from viewers. In addition, this is also another drama by the Hong Sisters to look forward to.

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Android 2.2 to include full support for Adobe Flash

4/28/2010 12:23:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


Gather 'round, Android fans, because Google's Android boss Andy Rubin has done a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, and we're guessing you're going to want to hear what he has to say. The biggest news to come out of it is word that Android 2.2, a.k.a. Froyo, will come complete with full support for Flash, which is far and away the most official confirmation we've had to date, and slightly contradicts earlier talk that Flash support wouldn't necessarily be built into the OS. Why the change? Rubin says that sometimes being open "means not being militant about the things consumers are actually enjoying." On a similar note, Rubin also said that while he doesn't know when the number of Android phones sold would exceed the number of iPhones and BlackBerrys sold, he's "confident it will happen," adding that "open usually wins." And the hits just keep on coming from there, with Rubin not so subtly working in a mention of North Korea after a discussion about Apple and closed computing platforms, before closing things out with the line: "with openness comes less secrets." Hit up the source link below for the complete interview, in which Rubin also address the issue of Android fragmentation, and reveals that he does indeed own an iPad, but naturally has a few things to say about it.

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Senators Call Out Facebook On ‘Instant Personalization’, Other Privacy Issues

4/28/2010 12:22:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Last week, Facebook launched some major new products, including social plugins, its Like button for the web, and its Open Graph API. It also launched a product that has some serious privacy issues: ”Instant Personalization”, which automatically hands over some of your data to certain third-party sites as soon as you visit them, without any action required on your part. I’ve previously discussed at length why I think this could lead to a major backlash. And now four Democratic US Senators — Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken — are calling on Facebook to change its policies.

This morning the senators sent a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg that details these issues (they’ve also separately reached out to the FTC, urging it to establish more rules around social networks). Here are the senators’ three main concerns, along with my own commentary:

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Unknown HTC Android QWERTY phone (Wildfire?) hits the FCC, AT&T 3G included

4/28/2010 12:22:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Rarely do we see the FCC approving an HTC phone and posting photos of it – and yet this has just happened.


The HTC PC70110 has been approved by the Commission with AT&T 3G bands (850 / 1900 MHz), and we can clearly see that it’s a touchscreen handset with a full QWERTY keyboard.

The handset also has four touch-sensitive keys, one of them being the familiar Android Home key, so the PC70110 is most likely based on Google’s OS. Update: upon a closer inspection, I’ve noticed that the keys look exactly like the four keys the HTC Droid Incredible has. The navigation pad, however, is different.

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The Problem With Opera: It Tries To Scream When It Just Needs To Sing

4/28/2010 12:21:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Opera has always been a bit of a curiosity to me. Nearly everyone seems to tout its speed and adherence to web standards — and yet, no one seems to use it. Well, at least not in the United States anyway, and really not that many people worldwide either. Why is that?

Today, Opera announced a new version (10.52) available for OS X. The promise is that it’s ten times faster than the last version I used (10.10). In fact, they’re saying it’s the “world’s fastest browser for Mac.” So I decided to try it out as my primary browser the entire morning.

First off, let me just say that the thing does seem pretty fast. Noticeably faster than Chrome or Safari? No (more on that below), but definitely faster than Firefox. And, a few rendering issues aside, it does seem like a pretty solid browser. But still, the entire time I was using it, I found myself itching to go back to Chrome or Safari. It took me a while to figure out why. But I’ve come to the realization that it was staring me in the face.

I simply don’t like the way Opera looks on a Mac.

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