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Taylor Swift Loves to Write About What Happens in Her Life

10/05/2010 07:32:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

If you listen to Taylor Swift's new album 'Speak Now,' you'll certainly hear songs that remind you of the singer's life.

"My next album is something I'm really proud of. I can only write about what I've been through. And a lot has happened in the past two years," Swift tells Glamour.

"Everything that happens to me gets put into a song," she adds. "For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. There, I don't hold back: names, dates, times, expressions on people's faces, exactly where we were and how it felt, what I wish I would have said to them in the moment."

Swift, who has has been interrupted on stage by Kanye, won several Grammys and other awards, and gone through high-profile relationships with 'Twilight' star Taylor Lautner and Joe Jonas, can't wait for reactions to her new tunes.

"I'm not only excited about sharing the songs with fans; I'm also pretty interested to hear the response from the guys I've written about on this record," she explains.

On her life: I've gone through a few different phases of gratitude. When it's happening, you're all about [what's next] and trying not to make a misstep. When it came time to lock myself away and make my next album, I had a feeling of, Wow, that really was something, wasn't it? I drive down the same streets I used to drive years ago, when I was just dreaming about stuff like this. So I feel total happiness and anticipation for the next thing.

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Shameful Courtney Love posts sleazy pics online as she appears to slide back into bad girl ways

10/05/2010 07:31:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Courtney Love has always been provocative but she has taken it too far by posting pictures of herself half naked on Twitter. The shocking photos show the 46-year-old singer posing in just underwear with her hands covering her breasts. In another photo she wears tights and knickers but no skirt as she bends over near a mirror.

Formerly in the band Hole, the troubled rocker has a history of erratic behaviour and drug use. She was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain with whom she has a daughter Frances Bean, but her relationship with her only child has also been problematic.

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Skype app arrives in Android Market, WiFi-only in the US

10/05/2010 07:30:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments


Finally, at long last, after so much waiting, Skype has made its debut as a full-fledged Android app. There are no Verizon-related limitations anymore, but Android Police reports that calling through the app is only available via WiFi, you can't use your mobile's data connection -- not yet, anyway. Another note they make is that Skype is using quite a few processing cycles to do its job, so much so that it introduced crackling on a call carried out with the EVO. You'll need to have Android 2.1 installed to run this thing, but if you do, why aren't you downloading it already? Video after the break have confirmed that 3G Skype calls will be available to all outside the US. Wow. Also, Skype's acknowledged there are some incompatibilities with Samsung Galaxy S phones and is working to iron those out.

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Microsoft's October 11 event could involve slate device announcements, unicorn sightings

10/05/2010 07:30:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Thought you knew all there was to know about Microsoft's October 11 event already? Maybe you do, but it's always good to pepper some good old fashioned rumors atop well established facts for that extra bit of spice. Neowin cites insider sources in reporting that Microsoft intends to use its Windows Phone 7 launch as a platform for revealing its plans for the tablet realm as well. Specifically, Steve Ballmer and crew are expected to "announce Slate devices which will be available for the crucial holiday season." We can't think of anything that would make the Redmond CEO happier, but let's not go building our hopes up too high. Just one revolution from Microsoft will be enough for us.

Rainie slams her gams

10/05/2010 07:29:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Wear a revealing top? No problem for pop princess Rainie Yang. But just don't make her wear leggings, she told The New Paper in a recent interview.

Here last weekend to promote her upcoming concert, the 26-year-old Taiwanese described her unusual fashion don'ts.

'I'm okay if I have to wear an outfit that reveals half of my breasts,' Yang said with a straight face.

Outgrowing her 'cute' image

'But I absolutely dislike showing my legs, and that includes wearing leggings. I'm uncomfortable if people can see the shape of my legs...I'm not confident of them.' She's also fine wearing cropped tops, she said, because she is proud of her well-defined abs.

Yang, who entered showbiz as part of the girl group 4 In Love in 2000, found fame on her own after she co-hosted the popular Taiwanese variety show, Guess Guess Guess, with Jacky Wu and A-Ya in 2002. But she hit the heights of fame only in 2005 when she acted in the idol drama Devil Beside You.

The drama's theme song Ambivalence, which she sang, became a huge hit in Asia. Yang released a Japanese version of the song earlier this year.

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Russell Brand Katy Perry Wedding Only Weeks Away?

10/05/2010 01:58:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Are the nuptials of Russell Brand and Katy Perry upon us already!? We don’t even know where they’re registered!?

We heard that the pop tart and her long-haired British companion have sent out invitations alerting friends of their wedding ceremony, which is set for later this month in India.

Russ and Katy had been dating for a little over two months when Brand popped the question during a pilgrimage in the East Indian city of Jaipur in Nov. 2009, tipsters told In Touch Weekly over the weekend. It is thought they have a seven-day long celebration planned. Famous names who are said to have been been invited include Rihanna, Jonathan Ross, and David Walliams.

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ABC Family cancels 'Huge': Are you sad to see it go?

10/05/2010 01:57:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments

Prepare yourselves for a, yes, huge disappointment: News broke today that ABC Family has axed Huge, the series following teens sent to a summer weight-loss camp, after just one season. The drama was a victim to declining ratings, especially when compared to the success of the network’s other summer launches, Melissa & Joey and Pretty Little Liars.

In a statement to EW, the show’s creators, mother-daughter team Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley, said: “First and foremost, we want to thank everyone who embraced Huge and supported it. While it’s disappointing not to be able to go forward with the characters we love so much and had so many plans for, we’re deeply grateful to have had this opportunity. Our goal was and is to create TV of depth and complexity that inspires people to think and feel. We believe we accomplished that with Huge and we can’t wait to do it again.”

How do you guys feel about the news? In a spate of recent cancellations, are you sad to see this one go?

Sharp Galapagos e-reading tablets hands-on (video)

10/05/2010 01:57:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


Sharp's 5.5-inch and 10.8-inch Galapagos are something to covet. Sharp's got the Android-powered e-reading tablets heavily on display here at CEATEC, meaning of course we jumped at the chance to try it ourselves. The interface is a bit sluggish, as is pinch-to-zoom on the browser. That said, pages (like our darling Engadget) displayed in full and were crisp, as were the supplied magazine examples (Newsweek, GQ -- all in Japanese, naturally). Flash 10 is supported, although we didn't get a chance to try it. The missing trackball on the 10.8-inch model wasn't much of a concern, as it was all but redundant on the 5.5-incher. Looks promising now, but with its US launch not expected until sometime in 2011, no telling what the competition might look like by then. More pictures in the gallery below!

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Fujitsu dual-touchscreen concept phone hands-on

10/05/2010 01:56:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Back at Mobile World Congress in February, the mobile UI gurus at TAT showed off their interpretation of a dual-screen phone interface using TI's powerhouse OMAP4 testbed. Seemed a little pie-in-the-sky at the time, but frankly, the concept device being shown off by Fujtisu at CEATEC this week -- created with TAT's involvement, it turns out -- seems virtually ready for production. Or the hardware did, anyway; the software was spartan by comparison, obviously designed to call out a few key use cases where having two giant, glorious 960 x 480 displays right next to each other might come in handy. We were shown browser and email list scrolling across both displays -- boring, if not obvious -- but what really piqued our interest was a cool photo sharing feature whereby you fling photos you want to share from a gallery on the bottom display to a list of contacts on the top one -- very TAT, if we do say so ourselves. Both displays can be rotated between portrait and landscape, creating either a nicely-sized clamshell or a gigantic flip, not an uncommon shape among Japanese phones. Indeed, given the form factor, the entirely-Japanese interface, and Fujitsu's history, we're sure this was designed entirely with the Japanese domestic market in mind -- and we wouldn't be at all surprised to see it show up in a retail capacity there within a year or so. Follow the break for video.

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Double B 21 releases new MV for ‘SOS’

10/05/2010 01:56:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


21 member group, Double B 21, just released a new MV for their track, “SOS.”

We’re still not sure how the group is going to work out, but there’s been rumors that they will be divided into sub groups. Either way, this music video does display some group shots of all 21 members, albeit very briefly.

With that said, I still can’t come to call this an actual “music video.” It just seems too cheap, and home video-like, although it’s probably pretty expensive catering to 21 members, so that could explain why. But hey, at least the song is not too shabby. Check it out for yourself!

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