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Twitter coming to Xbox 360
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Culture, E3, Xbox 360,
Twitter is coming to the Xbox 360, as announced by Microsoft at their 2009 Xbox Media Briefing at E3 2009. You’ll be able to see recent tweets from your contacts, and you’ll also have the ability to update your Twitter status right from the Xbox 360 as well. Check out a few Twitter on Xbox 360 screenshots, and feel free to follow Playfeed on Twitter.
Update: Facebook for Xbox 360 is also on the way!
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VIDEO: Bruno Forces Eminem to Leave the 2009 MTV Movie Awards
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Cable, MTV, Video,
UPDATE: You can read Eminem’s reaction to the planned stunt here.
What’s the best way to get on Eminem’s bad side? Well - if you’re Bruno, just get your naked rear in his face.
During tonight’s broadcast of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, actor Sacha Baron Cohen (promoting his movie about an Austrian fashionista) flew in from the rafters on on a high note…then descended toward the rapper’s low note. Needless to say, this prompted the musician and his crew to leave in disgust.
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Tila Tequila Reportedly Pregnant
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Television, Pregnancies, Rumors,
UPDATE: Tila has since addressed the rumors by saying that she is “not currently” pregnant.
Sounds like someone might have gotten a little shot of love. (Sorry - that just had to be said.)
Based on tweets posted her own account, speculation has been brewing that Tila Tequila is now pregnant. The Shot at Love beauty got the news started earlier this month when she reportedly wrote - then deleted - the announcement on her Twitter page.
According to Extra, the bisexual reality star made the reveal late on May 19. “I’m gonna tell y’all something REAL FAST, then delete it ok?... Since nobody is awake… reason why I’ve been feeling sick on and off lately is because yes, I am pregnant!” Tila also supposedly hinted at the identity of the father. “I’m talking about someone very very very very very f**king famous! He is like A-list famous and you follow him on Twitter too,” she wrote several days earlier. “Someone is not stepping up the the plate…but it’s all good. We all know I have more balls then you will ever have and your a man! Whatever.”
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Skyfire 1.0 Mobile Browser
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Internet,
Skyfire 1.0 is now available for on Windows Mobile (smartphones/PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. The free mobile browser comes packed with Flash 10, Javascript, Ajax and Silverlight 2. Features include scrolling, zooming, and Twitter and Facebook integration. Available in the US, Canada and the UK, a public beta and Blackberry version should be released sometime this year. Visit the site to download to your phone, send a link to it or install through your PC.
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Twitter Goes Hollywood
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet,
Oprah and Ashton should be thrilled. Twitter has partnered with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment to develop a TV series. With a concept by Amy Ephron, the unscripted show will have “ordinary” people tracking celebs.
Details are sketchy but Co-Producer Jon Liebman claims that, “We’ve found a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.”
It sounds like a cross between reality TV and paparazzi-like stalking to us, but then we suppose everyone wants his/her 15 minutes.
Read More | Variety
Mary Carey Returns to Porn
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: D-List, Television, Rumors, Where Are They Now?,
Celebrity Rehab alum and former porn star Mary Carey, who was advised to leave the sex industry by Dr. Drew Pinsky, is making her big return to adult films. The way she’s doing so is…rather shocking.
According to TMZ, Carey is starring in Celebrity Pornhab with Dr. Screw. As you might have guessed from the title, this skin flick satirizes the VH1 show where Mary Carey first came to mainstream media attention (Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew).
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Twitterific 2.0 for iPhone is fantastic
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Social Networking, App Updates, Videos, $3.99, Free Apps,
Twitterific 2.0 hit the App Store yesterday, and it is a huge leap forward in terms of being a fully-integrated Twitter client when compared to the preview 1.x version. Hit the video above for a quick visual walkthrough of the interface. The Iconfactory has two versions of Twitterific 2.0 available, a free version with ads, or a premium $3.99 version which removes all ads.
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The White House Joins Twitter
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Media,
The White House has joined the wonderful world of status updates in 140 characters or less or as it’s more popularly known as, Twitter. Yes, the Obama Administration is joining the cool kids and getting down with the twitdiction of tweeting, which will be full of useful information and not what President Obama had for breakfast or what song he is currently listening to. If you’re on Twitter, feel free to follow the tweets at twitter.com/whitehouse.
Oh, and be sure to follow Filibuster Soup on Twitter as well!
Read More | Time
Exclusive: Twitter and Facebook widgets coming to FiOS TV
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Internet,
Earlier we posted a fairly in-depth piece looking at some of the upcoming FiOS TV features, but we figured some of you might just be interested in this juicy tidbit. We know a bunch of you are addicted to Twitter and/or Facebook, and if you are a Verizon FiOS TV subscriber, you’ll be interested to know that both are going to be integrated into your television viewing experience by way of widgets.
The Twitter integration is particularly cool, as the widget will give you a look at what people are saying about the show you are currently watching. Could be fun for sports, or reality shows. Not so much for Keeping Up with the Kardashians (hat tip to Jason on that one.)
We have no timeline for when the widgets will be pushed out, but we do know that they are currently in beta.
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Exclusive: Upcoming Verizon FiOS TV features
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Broadband, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Internet,
As most of you know, we are big fans of Verizon FiOS here at Gear Live. The actual Internet and television services are stellar, and it’s pretty hard to find fault with things, especially since downtime is almost nonexistent. Sure, we’ve had our issues, but those are all fixed, and at this point it is pretty much smooth sailing.
Today we were inviting to a media briefing at the main hub in Everett, WA, to get a look at some of the current and upcoming features of the Verizon FiOS TV service. We were able to sit down with Eric Rabe, Senior VP of Media Relations for Verizon to get the full scoop. Of course, being who we are, we had to make sure we got questions answered about FiOS Internet and phone services as well, just to be thorough. We will just go through these in no particular order - some of this you already know, while other parts are definitely new:
HD Content: FiOS TV is completely uncompressed through Verizon. They get the signal, and pass it straight through to the subscribers box the way they received it from one of two providers (depending on where you are located.) Every market has a minimum of 100 dedicated HD channels. The caveat here (and it’s a small one) is that the cable box does not have a mode that simply passes through the content to your receiver or television the way it comes in. This means you have to set the FiOS TV cable box to display either 1080i or 720p, and it will either up-convert or down-convert depending on what you choose. I let them know it would be nice to have boxes that just passed through the resolution without any conversion taking place. Of course, if you have a TiVo Series3 or TiVo HD with a FiOS CableCARD, you don’t have this issue.
I also asked about 1080p content, since satellite is currently offering HD content in 1080p. Unfortunately, their answer is that they are a couple of software revisions away from being able to offer that, so no timeline there.
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