George Michael Has Been Hospitalized For Pneumonia, Cancels European Tour

Pop singer George Michael has canceled the remaining dates of his European tour ?after being hospitalized in Vienna with severe pneumonia.?  That means that 14 European cities will be missing George Michael sets. Michael?s condition has apparently stabilized since entering the hospital, but doctors are still insisting that he cancel the remaining dates on his [...]

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Happy 30th Birthday, Britney Spears!

Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Nick Cannon all send birthday wishes to Britney Spears on her 30th birthday!
By Jocelyn Vena


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Happy birthday, Britney Spears!

The pop superstar celebrates her 30th b-day on Friday (December 2), and in addition to counting down her most iconic clips during the fan-voted Britney Spears Tournament: 30 Videos for 30 Years, MTV News also got some celebrity pals and Brit's most famous fans to wish the princess of pop a very happy birthday.

"Yo, Britney, happy birthday!" Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta said. "You're still a babe at 30!"

Jason Derülo noted the singer's influence on pop culture. "Happy birthday, Britney!" he said. "Loved watching you growing up. You made a difference in music, and you made a difference in my life."

Wilmer Valderrama mirrored Derülo's comments about Spears' unwavering pop-star status. "If there's someone that influenced a generation in every aspect of the word, I'd say it's Britney Spears," he said. "Happy birthday, sweetheart!"

"Happy birthday, Britney!" Kris Allen said. "Happy 30th! That's awesome!"

Heidi Klum recalled one of Spears' most memorable opening lines: "Happy birthday! It's Britney, bitch, always!"

Britney's legacy includes hits like "Toxic," "I'm a Slave 4 U," " ... Baby One More Time" and "Till The World Ends" — to name just a few — and 13-year-old "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter has been there all along. "Happy birthday, Britney! I love your music. I've been a fan forever. You're amazing."

Nick Cannon joked, "Britney, you're 30, girl. I see. You get your grown woman on!"

"Jersey Shore" star Ronnie had this message: "What's up, Britney? God bless you. You're doing great. Happy 30th birthday!"

"Shore" co-star and sometimes Femme Fatale tourmate Pauly D had this Twitter message for Brit: "Happy Birthday To My Girl @britneyspears !!!" he wrote. "I Luv Birthdays !!!"

But the Twitter love didn't end there: Justin Bieber RSVP'd to the Britney birthday party with this tweet: "Happy birthday shoutout to my friend @britneyspears."

"Sendin b-day love to @britneyspears :) cheers to another great year!!!" Miley Cyrus tweeted. "Let's make @britneyspears day & show some love! Let's trend #HappyBdayBritney."

Ellen DeGeneres had a funny tweet for Spears on her birthday: "I can't believe Britney is turning thritney. I mean thirty. Happy birthday @BritneySpears!"

Share your birthday wishes for Britney in the comments below!.

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Waterfield Ultimate SleeveCase for Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet Review

Looking for that perfect case for your new Thinkpad Lenovo Tablet?  It’s not easy.  As a new and “business grade” product,  the amount of cases in production out there are very far and few between. Searches in local shops and online lead me to so many cases that were either too big, or too small; [...]

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Microsoft releases sexy Bing app for iPad

It's still a bit odd seeing Microsoft deliver apps for Apple's mobile platform. And it's even stranger still to see one as sexy as the new Bing app for iPad, which brings a slick, immersive search experience to Apple's tablet.

Just as a regular search on bing.com will, the Bing app for iPad tailors the results it displays based on what you're searching for. There are loads of custom views, covering everything from movies and maps to weather and shopping. The app also offers a heads-up display of currently trending searches, complete with related images, which is an iPad-exclusive feature.

Navigation is a breeze thanks to multitouch controls, allowing users to flick or swipe through results. And while the development team refers to the app as "touch and decide," Bing Voice Search is also built in -- making it easy to start a query without using the iPad's on-screen keyboard.

The Bing app for iPad is available for download now from the App Store.

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Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5%

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Using some early numbers from both StatCounter and Net Applications, Mozilla's noisiest hominid, Asa Dotzler, has illustrated Firefox 4's meteoric rise to around 5% of Web browser global usage share. Internet Explorer 9, which launched two weeks ago, seems to be enjoying a much more casual stroll in the park with just 1.5% of the global Web usage share.

Interestingly, we can see IE9 dipping between March 20 and 21, just before the 'Important' Windows Update rolled out. It's hard to say whether IE9 is only growing because of the installed-by-default Windows Update, but that small dip definitely sticks out -- did excitement peter out? Did people download IE9, try it out, and summarily uninstall it? Perhaps, given their close proximity, the stats show an attention shift from Microsoft to Mozilla?

Numbers-wise, if the bottom left corner of the graph shows 2.3 million downloads for IE9, we can guesstimate that that it has now been downloaded 5 million times. Firefox is clocking in at 37 million downloads after five days of public availability.

We wonder whether Microsoft knew its release schedule would coincide so closely with Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 9 -- a great browser by almost every metric -- was never going to do well against anything emanating from the maws of Mozilla. The main thing, though, is that Microsoft has now shown that it's serious when it comes to the Open Web. If Internet Explorer 10 is good, and 11 and 12, then we might finally see it compete with the zealous Mozillan horde.

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Britney Spears Experts Debate Final Four Videos

BreatheHeavy.com's Jordan Miller puts his money on 'Criminal' as voting continues.
By Christina Garibaldi


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It's Final Four time in MTV News' Britney Spears Tournament: 30 Videos for 30 Years. Hundreds of thousands of votes came in during round three — and that led to some shocking eliminations. Most notably, fan favorite "Toxic" lost out to "I'm a Slave 4 U," which advanced to round two.

"We thought that would be the biggest, tightest competition," MTV Newsroom blog editor John Mitchell said of the contest between "Slave" and "Toxic." "And it was the one that was separated by the most [votes]."

The closest finish in the third round came down to this year's "Till the World Ends" and "Lucky," released in 2000.

"Till the World Ends" held the lead for most of the voting, but a last-minute push by fans edged "Lucky" into the next round with a margin of just 128 votes. Now, it's down to the Final Four. "Lucky" will take its chances against Spears' latest video "Criminal," which has a strong shot at the final round, according to BreatheHeavy.com's Jordan Miller, who runs Britney's biggest fan site.

"I think 'Criminal' 's made it really far because it's her latest music video that's out," Miller explained. "I think if that music video came out years ago, I don't think it would be doing so well. It's being promoted right now on TV and radio, but I think because it's new to fans, it's made it this far."

In the Final Four, "Slave 4 U" is facing off against "Hold It Against Me," and MTV News experts predict "Slave" and "Criminal" will ultimately fight it out for the title of Best Britney Video of All Time.

Spears herself recently weighed in on the competition with a tweet, hinting that boyfriend Jason Trawick was supporting "Criminal," in which he co-stars with Brit.

"It's constantly been the most voted-upon bracket every single round," MTV News' Mitchell said of "Criminal." "I think there's a lot of groundswell behind that video; [Britney] obviously supports that video. I think that her fans are going to take it to the end."

Voting for the top four clips is open until 7 a.m. Thursday; the top two will be unveiled at 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, followed by the big reveal of the winner at 10 a.m. ET on Friday, which happens to be Britney's 30th birthday.


Head over to Britney30.MTV.com and vote for your favorite music video in MTV News' Britney Spears Tournament: 30 Videos for 30 Years.

Which Britney video are you rooting for? Let us know in the comments section below!

What's your favorite Britney video? Make sure to vote at Britney30.MTV.com or the MTV Newsroom blog, and share your picks in the comments below!

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iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes

iSites -- a zero-code cloud-based 'app creator' -- can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed 'InstantApp', you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app.

We haven't looked at iSites before, but it shot to fame last year when it launched with native iOS and Android support. Self-publishing Android apps wasn't a problem because Google does very little moderation of the Market, but iSites ran into trouble with its iOS apps. Thousands of people signed up for the service after it was featured on Mashable and TechCrunch, and you can imagine Apple's chagrin as thousands of cookie cutter apps flooded its approval queue.

Genwi, the developer behind iSites, realized something had to be done -- it had to circumvent the App Store approval process. Genwi, of course, turned to HTML5 Web apps -- which can be pinned to the iPhone home screen and which can be shoehorned into almost behaving like native apps.

Read on for our experiences with iSites' new InstantApp HTML5 iOS app creator.

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