Thursday, April 26, 2012
Justin Bieber Writes Song About Paternity Scandal
'I wrote about that situation,' singer admits during an album listening session Tuesday.
By James Dinh
<P><P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> isn't leaving behind last year's paternity scandal until he shares his two cents on the allegation — musically, at least. </P><P> </P><P>Just a day after his <a href="/news/articles/1683621/justin-bieber-paternity-accuser-message.jhtml">Twitter jab at 20-year-old Mariah Yeater</a>, the pop superstar held a listening session for his new album, <i>Believe,</i> and revealed that the paternity case is just one of many subject matters he covered on the project. </P><P> </P><P>According to the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17823463" target="_blank">BBC</a>, Bieber said his inspirations included "that girl — Mariah Yeater — who said she was going to have my baby," adding: "I wrote about that situation." </P><P> </P><P>When asked to choose his favorite song on the <a href="/news/articles/1683335/justin-bieber-believe-the-voice.jhtml">June 19 release</a>, Bieber struggled to answer. "Every song has a piece of me; it's hard to pick," he said. "I wrote almost all of them or co-wrote them." </P><P> </P><P>Yeater definitely played a big part in Bieber's 2011. The California woman kept the singer at the top of the headlines when she <a href="/news/articles/1674791/justin-bieber-paternity-test.jhtml">alleged he was the father</a> of her then-3-month-old child. </P><P> </P><P>Bieber's baby-mama-drama track is just one of 40 songs he's recorded for the LP, which also reportedly features collaborations with Taylor Swift, Ludacris and Kanye West. </P><P> </P><P>In another interview during his promotional blitz, the singer dished details about his duet with Drake, even revealing the title of the star-studded track. "The song's called 'Right Here' and it's a smash!" he told <a href="http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/justin-bieber/news/drake-right-here/" target="_blank">Capital FM</a>. "People are gonna love it. It just rides so smoothly." </P><P> </P><P>Two acts Beliebers won't see on the album are One Direction and the Wanted, as the star denied rumors of hitting the studio with the teen heartthrobs. </P><P> </P><P><i>What do you think Justin's album is going to sound like? Share your thoughts below!</i> </P><P> </P><P><center><a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1617615"><img src="http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/s/spotted/banner/spotted.jpg"></a></center></p></p>
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MarkaVIP Secures $10 million As The Middle East Takes Off
Online private sales burst onto the scene a few years ago in the shape of Vente Privee in Europe and, later, Gilt in the US. It's a model we all know and love - and it's rapidly proving a model with which emerging economies are, well, rather obsessed. I was just recently in Istanbul where you can almost throw a stone and be sure of hit a private sales startup entrepreneur. And from there, and across the Middle East and North Africa (known as MENA), online businesses are growing like weeds. And some investors know it. Thus today MarkaVIP, a runaway private sales success story in the Middle East has completed a $10 million Series B funding led by European venture firm Prime Ventures. It's joined buy participation from New York City-based Invus Financial Advisors (IFA), Antwerp-based Hummingbird Ventures, and San Francisco-based Lumia Capital.asexual jim carrey san francisco chronicle kourtney kardashian pregnant kourtney kardashian pregnant chip kelly billy cundiff
The Wanted Chug Milk And Wiggle Dance With Fans
We count down the boys' silliest moments from Tuesday's 'MTV First: The Wanted.'
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway
The Wanted's Jay McGuiness and Max George
Photo: MTV News
The Wanted sat down with MTV News during their "MTV First" Tuesday night to open up about their just-released U.S. debut EP, as well as their brand-new music video for "Chasing the Sun."
In between more serious chatter about the vampire-themed clip and wanting to work with pals Justin Bieber and Chris Brown on new music, they also got into some shenanigans and made some unusual confessions. So here are their five silliest moments from "MTV First." Be warned, one includes milk chugging — like the actual chugging of milk.
Jay McGuiness Loves Milk ... A Lot
During the interview, one young lady was wondering if Jay could break his personal best milk-chugging time of 4.2 seconds. Well, lucky for the world, Sway had milk on hand. Jay happily obliged, pouring the milk into a pint glass and downing it. Did he break the record? Why yes. He managed to drink it all in the blink-and-you'll-miss-it speed of 3.7 seconds. How'd Jay feel about it? He just kind of shrugged off the accomplishment.
Welcome to America
The guys are conquering America one girl at a time, so when they were asked to name their favorite state in the union, the guys may have revealed that they don't know as much about U.S. geography as they thought. "Is New York a state?" Tom Parker wondered. "Like New York, N.Y.?"
Nathan Sykes Gets an Awesome Birthday Present
It's not always easy being the youngest guy in the band, but Nathan's bandmates tried to make him feel a little older than his 19 years when he celebrated his birthday. "It's got its perks. ... I think I'm quiet at times, but then the older ones try and mislead me and ruin my life like taking me to the Playboy Mansion for my 19th. I didn't know we were actually going, and then we pulled in. And then literally it is how it is in the movies. What I meant is it's like a film set."
Max George Loves Sharks
When the guys were asked what superpowers they'd like, they had pretty standard-issues answers. But Max revealed that his power would have nothing to do with X-ray vision or mind reading: "I'd be able to breathe underwater so I can swim with sharks ... for weeks."
The Guys Think They Can Dance
"I hate you so much right now," Jay declared when asked by a young fan to dance. "We were out in the club, and it was quite late and as we only had a few minutes left to get successful with any ladies, Max decided to try dancing to snare one, and this is what he decided to do." His move? He put his arms out and then wiggled, as displayed by Tom. "It's quite embarrassing," Max later confessed. "I've retired from doing that."
Stick with MTV News as we roll out more from our exclusive interview with the Wanted! And don't forget to vote for them in our Battle of the Boy Bands. Voting is now open and runs until noon ET on Thursday, April 26. Winners are determined by fan votes, so if your favorite band made the cut, make sure you keep voting. Spread the word on Twitter using the hashtag #BBB and like us on Facebook for updates!
- Behind The Scenes Photos From The Wanted's "Chasing The Sun" video
- The Wanted Take Over NYC, MTV News Tags Along!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Space Shuttle Discovery mounted on 747 for ride to Smithsonian (+video)
The retired Space Shuttle Discovery is now sitting on top of NASA's modified jumbo jet, in preparation for its delivery to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter's delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (April 17), weather permitting.
Skip to next paragraph The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off for the last time on February 24, 2011.Discovery's mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft?(SCA), NASA's modified Boeing 747 jetliner, came a day later than the space agency had planned. On Saturday,?wind gusts?at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility set the 167,000 pound (75,300 kilogram) Discovery swaying under its lift sling, posing a risk that it could impact the Mate Demate Device (MDD), the gantry-like steel structure used to hoist the shuttle onto the jetliner.
Workers reconvened at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) on Sunday, to finish retracting the shuttle's landing gear. They then raised the orbiter 60 feet (18 meters) off the ground so that the carrier aircraft could be positioned underneath. Discovery was then lowered onto the jumbo jet's three protruding attach points to achieve a "soft" mating.
Work continued throughout the day Sunday to secure, or "hard" mate, Discovery to the 747, before removing the hoist sling and backing the paired vehicles out of the MDD on Monday morning. [How Space Shuttles Fly on 747 Jets (Photos)]
"Assuming the weather is good, we'll back out [of the Mate-Demate Device] in the morning, That will give a whole day of opportunity for the media, the public, and for our employees to come out and get a good view of Discovery's last time on top of a 747 here at Kennedy Space Center," said Stephanie Stilson, flow director for the transition and retirement for the space shuttle orbiters. [Gallery: Discovery Mated to Jumbo Jet]
Among the space program workers expected to come out and view Discovery on Monday are the members of its 39th and final spaceflight, the six astronauts who flew the STS-133 mission in March 2011.
According to Stilson, who also led the ground processing for Discovery's last 11 missions, seeing it be readied for one last ferry flight was eliciting mixed feelings.
"It's hard not to be happy, because we have achieved another one of our goals," Stilson told collectSPACE.com. "That is how we look at things. We have a job to do, and that is to get?Discovery to the Smithsonian. So this is the next step to get there. So we're very happy because everything has gone well to get to this point."
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ICQ Messenger 3.1 (for Android)
With ICQ Messenger 3.1 (free), ICQ, the pioneering instant messaging (IM) desktop client from the mid-90s, is attempting to reinvent itself as a mobile app. Like Whatsapp and Viber, ICQ Messenger lets you send free, unlimited text and photo messages to your contacts. It also streams updates from a few social networking feeds. As a result, ICQ Messenger is half IM, half social media aggregator, and neither half works particularly well.
For the uninitiated, ICQ (a play on "I seek you") was the first instant messaging (IM) platform to really take off when it launched in 1996. It vanished just as quickly once competitors like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, and Google Talk entered the scene, and was eventually snapped up by AOL in 1998 before being sold to Digital Sky for less than half the price AOL paid for it, in 2010.
Clumsy Setup
After registering, you can import your contacts from your ?Android address book, Facebook, Google Talk, StudiVZ (a German Facebook clone), and ICQ. The app opens your browser to log into these third-party networks, which feels very archaic. Most multi-client messengers these days let you sign in within the app. ?
Connecting to Facebook and Google took minutes, which feels like a lifetime in an app. Furthermore I couldn't select individual contacts from my social networks to add, I could only import entire network lists. I mean, I follow more than 500 people on Twitter, but I certainly don't want to import them all!
If someone in your contact list isn't on Facebook or Twitter?like my mom, for instance?the only action you can take is to invite him or her to join ICQ first, before you can send another message. The same goes for Whatsapp, but Whatsapp is already so popular that you?re bound to find a good portion of your contact list already on there.
None of my phone contacts were on ICQ, so I created another ICQ account to communicate with myself in the Android app.
Quick, Free Messaging
ICQ Messenger delivers messages instantly. The messaging interface is very slick, featuring the same bright color scheme as in the original ICQ. In the Android app, you can send your geolocation or a photo as well.
Like with Google Talk, ICQ Messenger works cross-platform, so users can message each other through either mobile or PC clients. And yes, when you receive an ICQ message through your Android device, you do hear "uh oh!" However, the familiar sound alert was given an echo treatment and now sounds? sultry.
You can send messages to non-ICQ contacts using the app, but they're delivered via the same platform from which you imported the contacts. In other words, if you added Calvin, Susie, and Hobbes to your ICQ list through Facebook, messages you send them will only be delivered to their Facebook message inbox. Same goes for Google Talk.
On the other hand, if a non-ICQ contact initiates a message, ICQ Messenger does not reflect this.
RSS Feeds
The app's home screen features four tabs, two of which I wouldn't use regularly: Contacts, Chats, Feeds, My Info. The first two are self-explanatory to anyone who's used an instant messaging app. Contacts lists all your contacts, Chats lists all your chats (history included).
Feeds, on the other hand, is an RSS of all updates across your integrated social networks. It's similar to Hootsuite?except to a much lesser extent since ICQ only supports Facebook, Google Talk, and that German Facebook. You can only "like" or comment on updates. Furthermore, scrolling gets jerky the further down you go.?
When you tap the My Info tab you can see Notifications (like if someone comments on your status) and My Updates, which is a list of your own status updates. ?This whole tab felt like an incredible waste of one-fourth of the app's interface.
Fun For Nostalgia's Sake
ICQ Messenger for Android is a fast, free mobile messenger, but like that vintage typewriter you keep for nostalgia's sake, it's more quaint that useful. Whatsapp and Viber do a much better job of importing contacts. Furthermore, few people in the U.S. actively use ICQ anymore, so the app's utility is limited to messaging your Facebook and Google Talk friends. You?ll find superior social media aggregators in Hootsuite and Seesmic. ICQ Messenger for Android has a lot of potential design-wise, and will appeal to sentimentalists like myself, but until more people join there are better instant messaging apps out there.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Think Like a Man Takes Bite Out of The Hunger Games
The ins and outs of dating proved to be more popular this weekend than teenager-on-teenager homicide, as the romantic comedy Think Like a Man finally ended The Hunger Games' perch atop the box office.
The film, based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man collected $33 million on Friday and Saturday, while Katniss and company could only muster $14.5 million. It actually fell to third place behind Zac Efron's The Lucky One.
The Hunger Games has now earned $356.9 million in the U.S., hitting that mark in just 30 days. Only seven other flick have ever passed that figure in less time.
Here is a look at the top five from the weekend:
- Think Like a Man: $33.0 million
- The Lucky One: $22.8 million
- The Hunger Games: $14.5 million
- Chimpanzee: $10.2 million
- The Three Stooges: $9.2 million
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