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Google Wave For Select Users This Fall                                     Teen Choice Awards: Best and Worst 

AT & T's Sony Ericsson W518a Walkman                                    Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body   

Apple adds antiglare to 15-inch MacBook Pro                           Lady GaGa Hermaphrodite?   

                                                                                                 Miley Cyrus Pole- Dances 

                                                                                                 Ashley Greene Nude Photos               

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Google announced in a blog post earlier this week it will open up Wave to 100,000 people on September 30. To get on the early bird list, you have to volunteer to be part of the Google Wave testing community.

Google didn't say whether it's too late to sign up now, but if you're interested you might as well try. Just head over to Google Wave's Website, provide your e-mail address, and make sure you check off the option that says, "Enlist me! I'll report bugs and give feedback (e.g. user surveys)." You also need to let Google know how you want to use Wave, and then write a short message to the Wave development team -- Google says haiku, sonnets, and ASCII art submissions will be accepted.

What is Google Wave?

At its core, Google Wave is a combination of e-mail and instant messaging combined with any Web-based media you can think of. I find the best way to get my mind around it is to think of Google Wave as a mutlimedia conversation thread that includes a variety of tools to help your discussion. You can collaborate on documents, chat with people over IM, e-mail show photos, throw in a map, play games, and so on.

But the advantage of the Wave is that it's not going to be like Facebook where you just spit out your posts for all your FB friends to see. Google Wave is supposed to let you decide who you want to share information with for every single wave or thread. It's true that, to a certain degree, you can control who sees your posts on Facebook, but not to the same degree you should be able to with the Wave.

But Will it Succeed?

From what I've seen, Google Wave looks like a helpful tool, but there could be a complication barrier that holds many people back from trying the service. A similar problem is affecting FriendFeed, the social network aggregation site. FriendFeed is a social network that lets you control who sees your posts to a greater degree than Facebook, and, like Google Wave, FF is geared towards sharing information and developing conversations. But many users take a look at FriendFeed and ask, "What the heck is that? What can I use it for?" I recently started using FriendFeed, and it's actually a great service, but it did take me some time to get my mind around what I could do with it.

That's the same danger for Google Wave: everybody is used to planning events with Evite or regular e-mail and posting their favorite video, article or photo on Facebook. For Wave to succeed, Google will have to convince users to give up their habits and try something new.

The other problem is that it's likely not all your friends have Gmail, but presumably you'll need to have a Google Account to get in on a wave. So if you're planning an event with Wave, your non-Google pals will have to sign up for yet another e-mail account or service to use something they may not even understand. "Just send me an e-mail, dude," will no doubt be a common response.

Google Wave may be a great information-sharing tool for personal and business users, but getting people to give up their habits and try a new method is always a tough sell.

VH1, the cable net formerly known for addictive rockumentary series like Behind the Music before turning to reality dating fare like Flavor of Love and Rock of Love With Bret Michaels is resurrecting its famed VH1 Divas concert broadcast after a four-year layoff, tapping Adele, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson and, no we're not joking, Ms. Hannah Montana herself.

We guess Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera weren't available again.

Unlike past Divas such as Aretha Franklin, Cher, Mary J. Blige and Celine Dion, all of whom have been around for decades, this latest round of female performers all made their mark in showbiz in the last three years, save Clarkson who shot to the top after winning the first season of Fox's American Idol and has stubbornly stayed there.

British soul singer Adele broke through in the States on the strength of her debut album, 19, and her popular single "Chasing Pavements," which earned her two Grammys earlier this year for Best New Artist and Best Vocal Performance. She was also nominated for the U.K.'s prestigious Mercury Prize.

Lewis, who also hails from the U.K., made her name as the former champion of British reality competition The X Factor before becoming an R&B star after scoring a hit with "A Moment Like This."

Clarkson, of course, has sold over 20 million albums since her victory on Idol and is best known for her ditty "Since You Been Gone." As it happens, Lewis owes her a debt, as Clarkson was the original artist to record "A Moment Like This" back in 2002 and the song went all the way to No. 1.

And then there's Miley.

At the ripe old age of 16, the teenage daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus already has three chart-topping albums under her belt, even if they were all soundtracks sung in the guise of her Disney Channel alter-ego Hannah Montana. As a solo artist, she's scored a top 10 hit with "See You Again," the first single from her debut album, Meet Miley Cyrus. Her second solo effort, Breakout, debuted at No. 1 last summer and quickly went platinum.

This year's VH1's Divas concert will air live on the cable network Thursday, Sept. 17 at 9 p.m. from the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House.

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There was squealing, there was Twilight, there was Joe Jonas being attacked by Mike Tyson (no, really). Here's our look at the evening's best and worst moments.

Best Way to Make Britney Spears Look Old

Lifetime achievement awards are an honour, we're sure. They're also a way for your peers to say you've done pretty much everything they think you're ever going to accomplish, so they'd better give you something quick before you disappear. Usually, these sort of awards don't go to people who are 27. But there's a first time for everything, especially at the Teen Choice Awards - an event that Britney Spears, this year's Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient (er, that is, Ultimate Choice Award winner), ushered into our homes for the very first time in 1999. Thank you, Britney, for inspiring a new generation of teen- pop acts to stage multiple meltdown and comeback cycles before their 30th birthdays. To the future!

Best Reason to Let Robert Pattinson Speak

As if that English accent of his wasn't enough to make you feel all tingly inside, sometimes he uses it to say things that'll make all viewers of the Teen Choice Awards synchronize their cycles. Pattinson won Choice Male Hottie. His acceptance speech: "I have to say that the hottest hotties, the hottest teens are the Twilight fans." But they're still not as hot as 20-something writers, right? Right?!

Worst Abuse of Social Networking

We dig Twitter. We use it, the teens use it, Shaq uses it. But we don't need the cast of Nickelodeon's iCarly to tell us how to use Twitter (or be a "Twit," as they so called it) so they can gobble up a few extra minutes of show time handing an oversized surfboard to whichever lucky celebrity mastered basic social networking in the last teen choice voting period. We're just relieved the award went to Ellen DeGeneres. Her offer to pay one of her followers $1,000 through a Twitter contest helps make up for the lame category. We're hoping she makes good on her other offer: tweeting the phone numbers of the celebs in attendance. We're still waiting . . .

Best Abuse of a Jonas Brother

After weeks of collecting submissions, the Jonas Brothers were set to take fans' dares on the Teen Choice Awards stage. Things could have taken a decidedly Girl Talk: The Board Game route given some of the featured dares (getting the Jonii to dance in hula skirts and coconut bras? What happened to the unbridled imagination of youth?) but the show opened big. And by big, we mean Mike Tyson, holding enormous pruning shears, making a beeline for Joe Jonas's mop of hair. Terrifying. Congratulations, Teen Choice Awards, for making me feel something for a Jonas Brother beyond puzzled amusement. To the clutch of young ladies in attendance, we're thinking Nick's dare was the favourite of the night. The youngest Jonii had to hug as many girls as he could. Ashley Tisdale's suggestion earlier in the show that they kiss everybody in the auditorium would have been a bit more ambitious, but there's always next year.

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 Is Miley Cyrus slowly attempting to make the transition from tween idol to pop sexpot? On last night's Teen Choice Awards (where she took home a total of six prizes, including "Choice Movie Hissy Fit" for "Hannah Montana" The Movie" and "Choice Music Single" for "The Climb"), the 16-year-old Disney star unveiled her latest single "Party in the U.S.A." with a performance that included extra-small booty shorts and a brief turn at a pole dance. It's not the first time that "adult" situations have crept into Cyrus' life and caused controversy (like her notorious topless photo shoot for Vanity Fair), but she's currently taking a lot of heat for introducing that level of sexuality into a show aimed squarely at the tween market.

Still, that shouldn't take away from the fact that "Party in the U.S.A." is a pretty catchy little faux-blues rocker that featured what Cyrus described as a return to "where I'm from," which included a "blinged-out trailer" and a handful of roadhouse dancers. The song also includes a shout-out to Britney Spears, who while probably not the greatest role model in the world did make the transition from Disney princess to worldwide phenomenon with the aid of a little risqué suggestion.

 When Ashley Greene took those naked pictures of herself (or had them taken of her), she probably never thought they would be "leaked" onto the internet, causing a photo scandal.And although there are many things that a person cannot be totally prepared for, scandals that involve the presentation of naked flesh in a picture (or pictures) can be prepared for by either realizing that when they're taken, they just might one day make it onto the internet, or not taking them at all and realizing that one will never have to worry about a genuine naked picture of oneself will appear on the internet.

But teenagers rarely think so coherently. And so the potential for future trouble begins...

Ashley Greene, who played Alice Cullen in the teen vampire movie "Twilight," won the Fresh Face Female Award at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards Monday evening. Along with Miley Cyrus, the movie "Twilight" was a huge winner at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, winning nine awards (ten if one counts that Robert Pattinson won for Choice Male Hottie).

There always seems to be a strange timing coincidence when it comes to naked picture scandals. Ashley Greene's naked photos made their way to the internet just before the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, which were anticipated to be a big night for the movie "Twilight" and its cast, who will reunite in the second installment of the series, "New Moon," in November.

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We all know what the Internet is like for celebrity rumors, but the recent one about Lady Gaga being

 a hermaphrodite, has to be the most bizarre of them all. But the latest rumor has had many people wondering, if Lady Gaga is a man or a woman.

According to associatedcontent.com, Lady Gaga has in fact been fighting wild and bizarre rumors like this one for some time now. The latest speculation was apparently fueled, after a picture of Lady Gaga managed to find its way on to the Internet.

The picture in question was reportedly taken, from video footage of the singer performing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. It reportedly showed her on stage with a short red dress and a bulge between her legs that shouldn’t be there if she was a female.

And even though Lady Gaga’s manager has insisted that the rumor and speculation that has come from it are ridiculous and untrue, the story seems to be carrying on. But most people just don’t care either way and it has not stopped Lady Gaga being top of the charts.

This entire week has been filled with promos for Karyn Kusama’s horror comedy, Jennifer’s Body. Yesterday we premiered the green band trailer for the film, and now a new poster has debuted. It features Megan Fox in a school girls uniform with high heels, and a devilish look on her face. This photo reminds us all that “She’s evil…. and not just high school evil.”

Does anyone else notice that there’s a hand inside the desk she’s sitting on? It’s so great to see Fox in a role that doesn’t objectify her or ooze sexuality…hey wait a minute? Jennifer’s Body will hit theaters on September 18, and co-stars Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, and Adam Brody.

Fox plays the titular Jennifer, a Minnesota high school cheerleader who becomes possessed by a demon and systematically begins murdering boys around the school. It’s up to her best friend to apparently put a stop to the madness .

The film is quite obviously rated R for sexuality, bloody violence, language, and brief drug use.

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 Apple on Tuesday added an antiglare upgrade option to its 15-inch MacBook Pro line of notebooks.

The option of an antiglare display has already been available on the 17-inch MacBook Pro. The 13-inch counterpart continues to offer only a glossy display.

First reported by AppleInsider and confirmed for CNET by Apple, the antiglare display is a $50 upgrade via Apple's online store.

The glossy versus antiglare debate has been ongoing since the glossy version was first introduced on notebooks. For some, it's a matter of aesthetics or eye strain. And then there are creative professionals who maintain that color is more accurate on an antiglare display. Others say it doesn't really matter.

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AT&T will roll out another Sony Ericsson phone beside the Cyber-Shot C905 mentioned earlier today, and that is the Sony Ericsson W518a Walkman. The W518a is not quite as advanced as the C905a, with its 3.2-megapixel camera, but it does promise a better music experience. Like previous Walkman phones, the W518a has a shake control that lets you change tracks and the volume with a quick wrist shake. There's also a gesture control for rejecting incoming calls and setting the alarm to snooze. It also promises social-networking capability with Facebook connectivity, letting you view your friends' updates right on the home screen. Of course, you also get access to AT&T Mobile Music where you can purchase and download tracks from Napster and eMusic.

The Sony Ericsson W518a Walkman will be available July 19 for $49.99 with a two-year service agreement.

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Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst celebrated his marriage to girlfriend, Esther Nazarov with a tweet on July 16: “Cheers to the universe from me and my lovely wife Esther Durst!! We are now one and complete.” Aww! The happy couple honeymooned in Vegas.

Here’s some news that might break your mom’s heart: Acclaimed actor and director, Robert Redford married artist Sibylle Szaggars on July 11 in Hamburg, Germany reports People. This is Redford’s second marriage, the first with Lola Redford in 1958.

Country music group, Lady Antebellum tweeted their congratulations to lead singer Charles Kelley, confirming his marriage to girlfriend, Cassie McConnell. According to People, the two had a destination wedding in the Bahamas.

WWE wrestler, John Cena married his fiancé, Liz Huberdeau on July 11 according to WWE Daily. They even created registries on WeddingChannel.com! Want to see photos of their Boston “I Do”s, check out the exclusive shots here.

Kendrick Perkins of the Boston Celtics and Vanity Alpough had a Texas wedding on July 24. Their getaway vehicle? A horse drawn carriage! (We love the romance!)

Eddie Cahill, star of CSI: NY married girlfriend Nikki Cahill on July 12, reports Celebrity Bride Guide. The couple had an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles.

Marc Blucas (best known as Riley on Buffy The Vampire Slayer), married journalist Ryan Haddon on July 25. Haddon was previously married to actor, Christian Slater.

Best known for her roles on The Young and the Restless and Diagnosis: Murder, actress Victoria Rowell married her beau, Radcliffe Bailey on June 27. Actor Samuel L. Jackson walked the blushing bride down the aisle, reports The New York Times.

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