For one brief moment on Monday morning, Bernard L. Madoff stood up in a federal courtroom in Manhattan and turned to face the people who lost their life savings to his huge Ponzi scheme. "I’m sorry," he told them. "I know that doesn’t help you."
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Monday, June 29, 2009
13-inch Macbook Pro crashes the netbook party on Amazon
In case you didn’t know, Apple refreshed its notebook lineup a few weeks back and rebadged the 13-inch unibody Macbook as a Pro model. Apparently the masses like it as that model now occupies the top spot in Amazons best selling laptop computer list and number four overall. It wasn’t that long ago that netbooks ruled that second list and the white 13-inch Macbook was the top selling Apple computer at number 14.
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Drake Signs With Cash Money / Universal MoTown: Report
Following reports of a major bidding war between three major labels, hot rapper Drake has reportedly come to a decision, opting to sign a deal with Cash Money / Universal MoTown.
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Transformers 2 Tops U.S $200 Million in Five Days
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie, which has set the five-day record for a Wednesday release with a total gross of U.S $201,246,000. That’s based on the Sunday morning estimates. If we see a spike in the Sunday actuals by at least a couple more million by Monday, this movie may be in a position to also claim victory over The Dark Knight’s overall five-day haul of U.S $203 million.
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Sad Picture of Michael Jackson Emerges as Shock of His Death Fades
Jackson’s sudden death recedes, a picture of the singer’s tortured lifestyle is emerging, one populated by prescription drugs, sycophants, plastic surgery, lavish spending, and an ever-failing quest to recapture the fame of his “Thriller” days of the early 1980s.
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'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home
Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday.
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Shopping For an iPhone 3GS? You Might Want to Hurry
Apple’s iPhone availability site, which appears when there’s a shortage of iPhones in stores, reappeared this Friday. It might be just a clever marketing ploy, but in certain U.S states, certain models of the new iPhone 3GS are getting very hard to find.
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Britney Spears Not Dead: Britney Twitter Account Hacked
After a series of tragic celebrity deaths this week – including Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon – it was perhaps more shocking for Britney Spears fans to read the following Tweet on her account tonight, accompanied by a Twitpic of a cross...
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Celebs Go to Twitter Following Michael Jackson's Death
Since news of Michael Jackson's death, celebrity friends and fans have released the following reactions on their Twitter accounts...
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Michael Jackson - Dead at 50
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Harry Potter director reveals details on two-part sequel
"It was about 3:20 a.m. yesterday when my phone rang: It was David Yates, the soft-spoken British director whose second "Harry Potter" film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," arrives in theaters across America on July 15. He sounded apologetic: "It's quite early there isn't it? Thanks for doing this, mate."
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Try Explaining This To Your Wife [PIC]
"My son bought a new skateboard at Van's at the Block of Orange. He thought his mom and dad would not know what the skateboard's graphic represented. When I saw it I laughed so hard that I ended up snorting."
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700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Leave Steve's liver alone
It's a question friends and family have been asking me ever since The Wall Street Journal reported last Saturday that Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs had undergone a liver transplant two months ago: Should our health records be made public?
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Chris Brown Strikes A Plea Deal In Assault Case
A last-minute plea deal was just announced between Chris Brown and the state of California in the singer's felony assault case for the incident involving his former girlfriend, Rihanna.
Will.I.Am Fires Back At Perez Hilton; Video Of Altercation Hits Web
Perez's decision to Tweet for help instead of calling 911 was a call for 'mad attention,' Will says in new online clip.
Apple iPhone lines: No longer the social event of the season
For fanatics of anything, camping out in line for the latest product or event is a chance to show off their loyalty and devotion to whatever their chosen obsession may be. Waiting for hours in unforgiving conditions creates a real camaraderie between folks, and helps soften a person's judgment of the product they waited for.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
22 Porn Stars Test Positive for HIV
Health officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult-sex movies had contracted HIV since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect employees in California's multibillion-dollar pornography industry.
No Batman 3 for Chris Nolan?
Although the conventional wisdom has been that Christopher Nolan would be back to direct Batman 3 after helming his next film, Inception, the rumor mill now suggests that Nolan's involvement with the sequel to The Dark Knight might not be a given after all.
iPhone OS 3.0 Is Out
As expected, the new iPhone OS 3.0 is out. You can click on the "Check for Update" button right now to get your iPhone updated. If you used the pirated 3.0 golden master, this update is exactly the same...
Monday, June 8, 2009
Safari 4 slows down, now behind Chrome
Perhaps the absence of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, or any hint of his existence, will go down as the biggest disappointment of this year's WWDC conference in San Francisco. But it may be on the top of a list of more than one item, and down that list not too far behind Jobs' no-show, there is this news: The final release version of Safari 4 is not the fastest Web browser on Windows, despite what SVP Phil Schiller told attendees today.
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Apple releases its Safari 4 browser
This morning at WWDC, Apple SVP Phil Schiller announced the lid is officially coming off of his company's Safari 4 Web browser for Mac OS and Windows.
New MacBooks drop ExpressCard and removable battery
Sporting new displays, a new non-removable Lithium Polymer battery with a promised 7-hour charge, an SD card slot in place of ExpressCard slots, and offering a new 13" option, Apple's 2009 notebooks comprise its "most affordable lineup ever."
AT&T to be late on iPhone MMS, tethering
Among today's announcements at Apple's WWDC, iPhone Software Senior Vice President Scott Forstall presented many of the new updates coming with the iPhone 3.0 software upgrade, which will endow the popular iPhone with more than 100 new features. Among these will include the highly demanded support for MMS and bluetooth data tethering, which the popular device has lacked.
Seinfeld Dissing BlackBerry and iPhones
Seinfeld visits Conan O'Brien and shares his views about BlackBerry and iPhone users.
New iPhone: Rumour round up
"Holding our breath for the big Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) announcement has caused our heads to swell up like ripe tomatoes."
Palm Pre - Palm Poop!
Watch as "iJustine" tries to purchase the new "Palm Pre" and is totally underwhelmed! Hilarious.
Follow the entire WWDC coverage as it happens!
The Ars team once again makes the trip out to San Francisco to liveblog Apple's WWDC keynote.
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