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• View Shopping headlines on HDLNS.com

  HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)

• Repost: Carriers Want You to Pay Extra to Fix Their Own Failures [Repost]

  Now that Microcells are coming, it's a good time to imagine how wonderful our reception will be. And how AT&T should be giving these away for free or less than $150, despite the zero monthly rate. [R (read)

• This Real Life Criminal Mastermind Puts Any Bond Villain To Shame [Mastermi

  Wired has an incredible article on Gerald Blanchard, a young criminal mastermind with a 'savantlike ability to assess security flaws.' The story opens with him parachuting onto a Viennese castle to s (read)

• Patent Reveals Possible Reason for Apple's Ban on Screen Protecting Films [

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• Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL [SSL]

  That little lock on your browser window indicating you are communicating securely with your bank or e-mail account may not always mean what you think its means. More » (read)

• PlayStation Move, Hypocrisy, and Tootsie Pops [Humor]

  Back in 2007, Sony CEO Jack Tretton was dismissive of what he thought was a childish new product: the Nintendo Wii. Thankfully, a wise, old owl is here to make Tretton eat—er, lick—his wo (read)

• Verizon's LTE 4G Expansion Plans: One-Third of Americans Covered This Year

  Verizon's not taking the 4G wars lying down. Today at CTIA, they announced that they'd be launching 25-30 LTE 4G networks this year, covering a third of Americans by the end of 2010, and twice that within fifteen months. (read)

• AT&T U-Verse Mobile First Video: Watch Your Favorite Shows By Phone [At&t]

  AT&T's U-Verse Mobile app is coming, and we've gotten our first demo of how AT&T's bringing TV to phones. It's a sleek-looking, intuitive interface that'll let U-Verse customers watch recorded video (read)

• NYC's Depressingly Congested Traffic, Mapped by Taxicab GPS [GPS]

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• Happy Birthday, Steve Ballmer [Microsoft]

  You've seen Steve dance before. Today, if you are using Windows, sending emails from your Hotmail account, or even editing Excel spreadsheets, I insist you do a little monkeyboy dance in your seat. F (read)

• iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and MySpace Team Up to Guilt You Into Paying For Mu

  A group of online music industry giants, including Apple, Amazon and MySpace, have teamed up to form 'Why Music Matters,' a group aimed at turning pirates into purchasers. More » (read)

• Google Would Remind My Grandpa of the Arrogant White Invaders [Google]

  Days after Google moved from China, Sergey Brin is pushing the US to fight censorship there. But the West has a history of forcing moral and economic standards onto foreigners. This sort of thinking (read)

• 8-Bit Hangers Remind You There's Life Beyond Meatspace [Homedecoration]

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• Photoshop's Upcoming Content-Aware Fill Feature Looks Like Magic [Photoshop

  Well, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. You think Photoshop makes removing elements from images easy now? Take a look at this and prepare to have your brain exploded. Images just got even less trustworthy. [John Nack] (read)

• Adobe CS5 Launching April 12 [Adobe]

  Adobe just put up a new page counting down the seconds until the launch of Creative Suite 5 at 11am EST on April 12. We assume all of you have mastered the intricacies of CS4 and are eager to expand your creative horizons with a new se (read)

• Army Visits Apple to Discuss iPhones for Warfighters [Military]

  Our military still has big projects like ships or moonbases that slingshot asteroids into Russian submarines, but for grunts—they call them 'warfighters' this week—off-the-shelf rules the (read)

• Apple Patent For Object-Recognizing Touchscreen iMacs Re-Filed [Apple]

  A touchscreen iMac definitely makes sense when Lenovo, HP and the like are doing similar all-in-one touchscreens, so it's of note that Apple's re-filed a patent for the 'shape detecting input device. (read)

• NASA Test Pilot Robert M. White Winging Towards Heaven at Mach 6 [Heroes]

  Retired Air Force major-general Robert M. White, the first human to break Mach 6 and the test pilot who took the X-15 into space, has died at 85. The LA Times remembers him. More » (read)

• Intel's Overclockable Core i7 Chips for Gamers Go Vroom Vroom Even Easier [

  Two of the more interesting Core chips in the pipe from Intel, at least for gamers: The 32nm Core i5-655K (dual core), coming in June, and the 45nm Core i7-875K (quad core), coming in July, both have unlocked multipliers, meaning it's (read)

• Only Neo Would Be Able to Read This Watch [Watch]

  Hello Tokyowatch. Are you out of your goddamn mind? Yes, yes you are. More » (read)

• The Rotary Faucet [Concept]

  Thankfully, the Rotary Faucet is not a stupid attempt to combine a phone and a faucet. It's much clever than that. More » (read)

• Dell Leaving China In Search Of "Safer Environments" In India [China]

  Dell's said to be joining Google in fleeing China in search of a 'safer environment with [a] climate conducive to enterprise,' potentially taking the $25 billion it spends on equipment and parts in China to India. More » (read)

• Google's Sergey Brin On Microsoft's Refusal To Tackle Chinese Censorship [B

  After Microsoft refused to take a stand with Google against China's web censorship (and Bill Gates commented that the censorship was 'very limited,') Sergey Brin has shoved back, saying he's 'very di (read)

• Clearwire CEO mentions that WiMAX could join LTE as one, Verizon Wireless C

  It's no huge secret that the differences between LTE and WiMAX aren't exceedingly drastic, and with the right support, the two could theoretically form one big, happy family. During this morning's CTIA keynote with Dan Hesse (Sprint's CEO) and Bill (read)

• Re universal remote dongle for iPhone now available

  Most of prefer to keep our eyes on the TV when in couch potato mode -- which kind of makes the smooth glass interface of a touchscreen remote out of the question. But who knows? Maybe you're some sort of Alpha control freak who needs to be able cont (read)

• AT&T's mobile U-verse getting upgraded: download your recordings on the

  In a session held by AT&T at CTIA today, the carrier previewed an upgraded version of its mobile U-verse app, and let's just put it this way: it's significantly more important to AT&T's 'three-screen' strategy than the version that launched (read)

• Sony's Koller says Nintendo 3DS is a 'bit of a stretch,' no plans for 3D PS

  Sony has never been one to mince words when it comes to Nintendo, and it looks like the company's newly announced Nintendo 3DS is no exception. Speaking with IGN, SCEA Director of Hardware and Marketing John Koller confirmed that Sony's 'focus on 3D (read)

• Verizon Wireless: 'all' 4G WWAN devices will support 3G, too

  Hear that, kids? Tony Melone -- Verizon Wireless' Senior VP and CTO -- confirmed to us during a one-on-one meeting after the company's CTIA roundtable discussion that every last one of its data-only LTE WWAN devices (aircards, MiFi-type products and (read)

• Verizon 'wrapping up' Boston and Seattle trials, 'friendly user' ones comin

  Remember those LTE trials that Verizon Wireless started up in Boston and Seattle back in August of last year? Good news, mobile surfers -- the operator has today confirmed in a roundtable at CTIA that they're both nearing their end, giving us hope t (read)

• Verizon to blanket 'one third' of America with LTE this year, double covera

  Remember when we heard that Verizon Wireless just might be able to bump its commercial LTE rollout to the first quarter of 2010? Man, talk about having our hopes and dreams dashed. Here at CTIA, we heard a few details on the company's most up-to-dat (read)

• AT&T 3G MicroCell starting nationwide roll-out in mid-April

  Unless you've been in one of a few key test markets, you've been pretty much out of luck boosting your AT&T signal in the comfortable confines of your home since the 3G MicroCell first launched -- until now. Starting in the middle of next month (read)

• Ultra vague accelerometer patent filed in 2006 seems to cover every touchph

  We're going to try and avoid the hysterics: patents are a complicated business, and the fact that they're business usually means that in the worst case scenario, an appropriate amount of money can make problems like this go away -- nobody's going to (read)

• Kobo eReader is Kobo's $149 E Ink play for Borders, we thumb through its vi

  We've seen so many e-book readers of late that it's difficult to get excited about another, but Kobo's angle here might just make the Kobo eReader worth a look. Kobo's game is ecosystem, and in fact it doesn't plan on making a big splash in the actu (read)

• LG X300's slack-jawed hands-on

  You know, we see a lot of ultraportable laptops these days, it's not like it's virgin territory for us, but we'd say the last time we were this blown away by a form factor was the VAIO X, or maybe the Adamo XPS in all its weird-hinge glory. LG's X30 (read)

• MetroPCS bringing LTE to Las Vegas this year, Samsung doing infrastructure

  Look out folks, we're about to go LTE, and it's not from where you were expecting: MetroPCS is building out an LTE network in 'various metropolitan markets,' with Las Vegas due to go online first in the second half of 2010. Samsung will be doing the (read)

• GM's two-seater EN-V concept makes 'urban mobility' hip again

  We'll confess -- the Segway did a lot of damage to urban mobility as a whole, but General Motors (of all companies) might have just mended a wound we thought un-mendable. Unveiling today in Shanghai, the two-seater EN-V concept is a play on last yea (read)

• T9 Trace lets you Swype through your text messages

  You may or may not yet be aware of the Swype virtual keyboard (comes preloaded on the Cliq XT from Motorola), but you'll definitely be hearing about the T9 Trace from Nuance. This is because, although it's fundamentally the same thing as Swype (but (read)

• Nokia N8 being announced mid-April

  We've just been told by a trusted source that Nokia will announce a new flagship device dubbed N8 in the middle of next month. That's not around any major trade shows that we're aware of, but it is just before the company's Annual General Meeting in (read)

• UK VHS sales more than double in 2009, Bill Cosby enjoys the attention

  The way we see it, unless you're old enough to have taped a world premiere Smiths video off of 120 Minutes (probably 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before') you have no business hoarding VHS tapes. But maybe you are enamored with their (read)

• Sony's 3D glasses rated at 55 Alice in Wonderland viewings per charge

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• Telecom Egypt loses revenue, government helps by banning international VoIP

  var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Telecom_Egypt_loses_revenue'; State-owned Telecom Egypt hasn't been doing well lately, last week announcing 2009 voice call revenues dropped 13 percent from the year prior. It's not hard to see cheap/free (read)

• Inbrics M1 gets Android 2.1 and CPU bump to 1GHz, insists on being called a

  It looks like a smartphone, it has a smartphone's form factor, operating system, and an extra-slim slideout QWERTY keyboard, yet Inbrics still insists on calling the M1 a Mobile Internet Device instead. When the company's not busy sinking its own ba (read)

• Avatar disc opens up online-only extras until ultimate edition arrives in N

  Fox continues to pull back the layers of its release schedule for Avatar after yesterday's press event with director James Cameron, producer James Landau and Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers (above) as Reuters indicates the Blu-ray 3D vers (read)

• Tromso students put together the best interactive display wall we've seen y

  Take everything you thought you knew about multitouch and throw it out. Okay, keep the Minority Report stuff, but throw everything else out. What we're looking at here is a 22 megapixel display, stitched together from the output of no less than 28 p (read)

• The Gap to Open Stores in Australia

  Gap, Inc., is expanding to Australia. The Gap will ad to it 3,100 stores by opening stores in Melbourne later this year. In 2011, a store will open in Sydney and more locations will follow. The stores will follow a franchise model. Bloomberg reports: (read)

• Oprah Settles Defamation Lawsuit

  Oprah Winfrey has settled the defamation lawsuit brought against her by the former headmistress of The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy. That means Oprah paid her something and it appears they signed a confidentiality agreement. Clearly it was worth (read)

• Batman Rain Gear Keeps Little Superheroes Dry

  Warner Bros. and the Washington Shoe Company have teamed up for an adorable rain gear collection for kids inspired by Batman. The Batman-themed collection will retail at $36.95 for the boots, $16 for the umbrella and $50 for the raincoat. Boot size (read)

• Video: Glee's Sue Sylvester Rants Against Those Sneaky Gays

  We love us some Sue Sylvester. Glee's Jane Lynch plays the nationally ranked, intolerant cheerleading coach with gusto and a wonderfully nasty attitude. In this hilarious clip, Sue is doing her editorial segment on the local news. This time she's ran (read)

• Alexander McQueen's Ashes to be Scattered on the Isle of Skye

  Vogue UK reports that Alexander McQueen's ashes will be scattered on the Isle of Skye. Alexander McQueen considered the Scottish island his ancestral home. He also based his Highland Rape collection on ths island. The Scottish island, which he regar (read)

• Adidas Unveils Spring/Summer 2010 Women's Collections

  Adidas has released this video lookbook for its Spring/Summer 2010 Adidas Originals women's collection. Ciara, Agyness Deyn, Ana Ivanovic, Cassandra Steen, Hyori Lee, Whitney Port, Cheer Chen and Tallulah Morton are among the actresses, athletes and (read)

• Brad Pitt's Beard Does Not Kick Ass

  Brad Pitt was in London for the premiere for the film, Kick-Ass. Brad Pitt helped produce Kick-Ass, which tells the story of a teen who wants to become a superhero. The film is based on a comic book series written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Jo (read)

• Brustech

  I have a couple of Luminarc pitchers, and my big hands couldn't get inside of them to clean out both the bottom and the top corners. I'm an iced tea drinker, and the little tea particles would take up permanent residence in (read)

• Error 404: Either Someone Screwed Up or This T-shirt is Being Ironic

  I love it, an Error 404 and good ol’ fashioned broken image icon. Of course, this sort of thing has been done before, but broken image icons are forever (I saw my last one just this morning). Price: $17 [Fashionably Geek] (read)

• A Cable Management Hack That Won't Break the Bank or Test The Skills

  There are plenty of awesome DIY cable management techniques around, or there are expensive systems that you can buy, but sometimes the simplest, cheapest ideas are the best. It doesn’t get much simpler than binder clips on the edge of a desk, (read)

• Shameless Realism: Forgot to Study T-shirt

  The folks at Threadless got all of the key features right on this one. A perfect illustration of what a test might look like if little Johnny spent most of his math lessons sleeping and didn’t do his homework. Note the lack of name in the name (read)

• DIY: Gameboy Circa 1800

  For those who like their handhelds monochrome, the Game Boy is a pretty sweet little system. This one is that much sweeter, thanks to some DIY wizardry that gives the 1989 Game Boy a steampunk motif and a new audio output for chiptune “musicia (read)

• Featured Reader: Erin, PA

  Name: Erin from Pennsylvania Your Favorite Source for Bargains: The local grocery store for their weekly club specials. Walmart and Dollar General for groceries and pantry stock ups. Your Best Bargain of All Times: Getting my Dansko clogs (which I we (read)

• Swarovski-Encrusted iPad Looks Like A Bargain Next To The Diamond Model [Ap

  Let's face it, at $20,000 no-one was going to be buying that diamond-encrusted iPad anyway. $2,250 for a Swarovski iPad is much more reasonable. Thank CrystalRoc and your lack of common sense, not me (read)

• Your Post-Apocalyptic Future: Container Trucks Recycled Into Mobile Homes [

  Whether the trucks were transporting oil, milk or some other sort of liquid, designer Aristide Antonas has conjured up a world where we would recycle the containers into apartments. The gallery below (read)

• Nintendo 3DS Will Be At E3 2010 [Nintendo]

  Oh hello! Looks like it won't be long before someone gets their hands on a Nintendo 3DS because the device will apparently be shown off three months from now at E3 2010. [NYT via Kotaku] More  (read)

• Exclusive: First Look at Slacker's Excellent On-Demand Music Service [Slack

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• Instapaper for iPad Will Sell a Lot of iPads [IPad Apps]

  If you like saving long, interesting articles you find during your internet travels for later, you probably already use Instapaper on your iPhone or Kindle. But boy does it look beautiful on the iPad (read)

• How to Kick Someone's Ass With Everyday Objects [Gadgets]

  Professor Duncan wants to teach you the art of Hoda Korosu: Improvised weaponry! Cellphones, cameras, and—in this video—the Magazine of Death! I wonder what Professor Duncan can do with an iPad. [Amazon via Obsolete] (read)

• StyleTap Finally Lets You Run Palm OS on Your iPhone [Apps]

  It's been over two years since we first heard of StyleTap, a Palm OS emulator for the iPhone. Now the app is finally available through Cydia, meaning you'll have to spend $50 and jailbreak your iPhon (read)

• GaitMaster 5: The Mechanical Physical Therapist of the Future [Health]

  Some injuries can leave people unable to walk and in need of physical therapy to guide their muscles through the re-learning process. This machine, the GaitMaster 5, assists with that therapy while a (read)

• Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Elastic Iron Alloy Can Make Surgeries and Buildings Safer

  This recently designed super-elastic iron alloy has two very different potential applications. It can be used to prevent blood vessels from collapsing and to return earthquake-deformed buildings to t (read)

• A Tribute To Girls Who Wear Glasses [Spectacles]

  Jezebel, our sister site, has some words of appreciation for those members of the finer sex who manage to make corrective eye wear look so good. Girls who wear glasses, I implore you: never get conta (read)

• The World's Smallest Laser [Lasers]

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• You Can Set This Weapon to Kill or Stun [Weapons]

  This is the Lund Variable Velocity Weapons System, a combustion-powered rifle that can both kill or stun an enemy. It was developed by the creators of Honey My Baby Pony and Tickle Me Elmo dolls for (read)

• MOTO touchscreen comparison recruits robotic implements for heightened prec

  digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/MOTO_touchscreen_comparison_recruits_robotic_implements_for'; So you saw that the first MOTO smartphone touchscreen comparison was done with a fleshy humanoid controlling the testing finger and discounted it as s (read)

• Dell looking outside of China for 'safer environments,' according to Indian

  The Hindustan Times cover this morning has a generous space dedicated to Google's exit out of China and related efforts at redirecting mainland users to its Hong Kong hub, but couched cosily inside that story is perhaps an even bigger one. Indian Pr (read)

• Sense UI ROM available for Droid; is nothing sacred?

  It seems that man's mad quest to unite Sense UI and Droid continue at breakneck speed. This next bit of evidence comes from the blurrycam of AllDroid forum member Greek35T, and befitting its status as an experimental Alpha release, there are a few h (read)

• Lee Kun-hee returns as chief of Samsung Electronics

  It sure pays to be a white collar criminal in Korea. Especially when you're the son of the founder of Samsung. Lee Kun-hee, the disgraced former chairman of the Samsung Group, is returning to the chaebol as the head of Samsung Electronics -- Samsung (read)

• Mythos XTR-50 speakers exude aircraft style, remain grounded by price tag

  Let's get this out of the way: at 38mm (1.5 inches) thick, these Mythos XTR-50 speakers are not the 'world's thinnest,' no matter what manufacturer Definitive Technology might have you believe -- JVC dropped 31mm satellites onto our secret wishlist (read)

• Corsair's 100GB Force SSD scorches the test bench with its blazing speed

  The name's Force, SandForce. Corsair's making it kinda easy on us to spot its first SandForce-controlled SSD, and there's no reason it should be bashful about it, given that the SF-1500 is currently the fastest SSD processor around. The F100 in ques (read)

• Conceptual 'CTRUS' football gets loaded with sensors, don't need no pump

  We've heard of soccer balls that play a tune when kicked, sure, and we're pumped to see the World Cup in 3D, but it's not often that someone comes up with a serious technological makeover for the sport that's nearly as old as life itself. CTRUS, how (read)

• China Telecom launching Palm Pre, BlackBerry handsets this summer

  We've been hearing that China Telecom would be grabbing hold of Palm and RIM's respective stables of smartphones since early last year, but at long last we've some official quotes to prove those whispers correct. According to a new report over at th (read)

• Ventev EcoCharge whacks vampire draw, charges two devices for the price of

  Thought AT&T's Zero charger was going to cruise along with no competition? No sirree. Ventev has shown up here in Las Vegas to launch its (seemingly superior) competitor, the EcoCharge. Designed to (nearly) eliminate vampire power draw when no d (read)

• HP EliteBook 8740w pumped up with Intel Core 2010 CPUs, ATI / NVIDIA graphi

  Fear not mobile workstation lovers, it may have taken HP a bit more time to refresh its 17-inch EliteBook 8740w, but it's officially here now and ready to champ at the bit with a combo of cutting edge features / specs. We'll start with the externals (read)

• Dell Aero first hands-on!

  Here she is, folks -- Dell's first-ever Android device destined for a Stateside release, and AT&T's second overall handset (the first being the Backflip) with a Google-based operating system. At CTIA's MobileFocus event, we were able to brush up (read)

• Switched on: Giving fax the axe

  Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Today's smartphones handle voice conversations, short texts, email, instant messages, and tweets from around the globe. They are moving toward real-time translatio (read)

• Samsung trots out Modus Bluetooth headset, complete with dual mics and mult

  And you thought the Bluetooth headset was gone forever. Samsung Mobile's keeping the dream alive here at CTIA by introducing the 'convertible-style' Modus -- a noise cancelling BT headset that's able to convert for Bluetooth stereo connectivity on a (read)

• AMD 12-core Opterons leaked ahead of launch?

  Provantage of North Canton (isn't that the birthplace of Marilyn Manson?) is featuring a number of 12-core AMD Opteron processors on its retail website. Obviously, this is well-ahead of the launch -- and subject to the usual caveats -- but if you're (read)

• Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for

  It's totally unfair to Kyocera that we played with its new Zio M6000 mid-tier Android smartphone mere hours after our first look at the HTC EVO 4G, but while we were excited to see a cheaper phone with an 800 x 480 screen, the end result is pretty d (read)

• NVIDIA's Optimus uncovered in Sony VAIO Z, along with TRIM support?

  Sony's illustrious VAIO Z may have a so-called 'Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System,' but NVIDIA's Optimus it is not. Or is it. Notebook Review's own igorstef started digging deeper within the laptop's switchable GPU setup, and lo and behold, it sure loo (read)

• Verizon vs. AT&T: Pre Plus edition

  Sure, Verizon and AT&T shout at each other across our TV airwaves all the time, but how often do we get to see two exactly same phones running on both carriers? The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have just such a distinction, and we stopped back by the (read)

• Motorola i1 video tour

  We checked out Motorola's i1 last night at a dinner event, but didn't get any decent video for you so we went back to the booth and sorted that out. The i1 is definitely an interesting device, though whether its rugged mil-spec feature set -- we wer (read)

• HTC EVO 4G vs. HD2 and Desire... fight!

  Now that the excitement of the EVO 4G announce has finally worn off, it's time to get down to more practical matters -- in a street fight, would the WiMAX-powered beast hold its own against an HD2 and a Desire, for example? We had all three in a roo (read)

• T-Mobile USA reiterates that 'breadth' of 3G footprint will get HSPA+ this

  It's easy for something as grandiose as a national wireless network upgrade to get delayed ad nauseam, so we're happy to hear here in March of 2010 that T-Mobile is still looking to blanket the 'breadth' of its existing 3G footprint with 21Mbps HSPA (read)

• Shirt Contains Microfiber Pads to Clean Glasses

  A Japanese company named Mitsubai is selling a shirt that contains black microfiber pads so you can clean your glasses. The Shiny Glasses Wipe Shirt retails for around $150 U.S. It can be purchased here for Mitsubai. (via Wired) Posted in Fashion (read)

• America Ferrera Stands Aboard Viking Ship in Times Square

  Ugly Betty star America Ferrera stood atop a forty foot Viking ship with her Viking friends in New York's Times Square on Tuesday. The Viking ship is part of a promotion for the film How To Train Your Dragon, which arrives in theaters this weekend. A (read)

• Zach Braff Says Scrubs is Ending

  Scrubs star Zach Braff posted the update above on his Facebook account. The update basically says Scrubs is over. E Online reports that Scrubs has not officially been canceled, but it probably will be. The show's mastermind Bill Lawrence tells us (read)

• Cheryl Cole's Parachute Music Video

  The music video for Cheryl Cole's song 'Parachute' has been released. Cheryl Cole is not the strongest singer from the Girls Aloud group, but that hasn't prevented her from having a string of hits in England. Cheryl is also not the greatest dancer. (read)

• The Life of Kate Moss' Hand Model

  The Daily Mail has an interesting interview with hand model Gemma Horworth, whose hands have been substituted for those of Kate Moss and Lily Cole, whose hands apparently aren't quite up to snuff for some advertisers. Gemma wears gloves when she goes (read)

• Sprint and HTC Corporation Announce HTC EVO 4G Smartphone

  Sprint and HTC Corporation announced the HTC EVO 4G today. Sprint says Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G. The Android powered handset is available exclusively from Sprint. Some of its features include 8 megapixel came (read)

• Elizabeth Taylor's Violet Eyes Arrives in Stores

  Elizabeth Taylor's new fragrance, Violet Eyes, is now in stores. The floral fragrance is a combination of fruits, florals and warm woody undertones. The top note is a fresh scent of Lush White Peach. Mid notes include jasmine and rich purple rose. (read)

• Olivia Wilde Plays Madonna in Weird Al's Fake Biopic

  Funny or Die has produced a trailer for a faux documentary about Weird Al Yankovic's life. In this version of Weird Al's life, his mother is played by Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen and his father is played by the hilarious Gary Cole. Weird Al's girlf (read)

• Conan O'Brien Still Negotiating With Fox, Won't Appear on Idol Gives Back

  Conan O'Brien is in talks with Fox for a new late night show which would debut in September, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Conan might have appeared on Fox a bit earlier than that, but NBC execs said 'no way' when he asked if he could appear o (read)

• Kevin James Hosts 2010 Kids Choice Awards

  Kevin James is hosting the Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards. Last year James produced, co-wrote and starred in the comedy hit, Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Rihanna and Justin Bieber are slated to perform. Apolo Anton Ohno will blast into gree (read)

• Blockbuster to Get Warner Bros DVDs Four Weeks Earlier Than Rivals

  Blockbuster announced it has cut a deal with Warner Bros. that will give Blockbuster customers access to Waner Bros. titles four weeks before other kiosks and subscription services can offer them. Blockbuster's website contains the graphic above th (read)