Mila Kunis has spoken out in favor of Natalie Portman, her “Black Swan” co-star, in the middle of accusations that the Oscar-winner’s dance double did the majority of the dancing in the film. Portman’s double, American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane, claims that the actress only did five percent of the dancing shown on screen.
Kunis told [...]
With the launch of Cloud Player, Amazon has just entered the streaming music business. It is a music player that allows everyone to upload their music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or Android.
Cloud Player’s new service adds a new “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” badge for saving MP3s to the cloud, [...]
The Bondi Beach has progressively become a brand: beers, television and real estate agents use it romantically. The real Bondi can be tough to discover, but that has become the job of Aquabumps photographer Eugene Tan.
His shots have sold Bondi to the world more than a real estate agent ever could. His photography website gets 40,000 [...]
U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has come under fire for offering a push-up bikini top to young girls.
Abercrombie Kids website posted earlier, “Ashley” bikini which was described as “padded and a “push-up”
The company has noted that they updated the description of its bikini but they declined to comment last Saturday.
The company has noted that they [...]
The latest version of Mozilla’s free, open-source Web browser, Firefox 4, was downloaded approximately 5 million times in its first 24 hours.
According to Mozilla’s website, downloads were up to 6.8 million by time10 a.m. ET Wednesday, just over a day after the update was released. Minutes before Firefox 4 turned a day old early Wednesday [...]
Toyota’s U.S. manufacturing arm is preparing for a probable shutdown because of parts shortages from Japan, said by a spokesperson from Toyota.
The word has gone out to all 13 of Toyota’s factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico. This does not mean that the plants will stop working, Mike Goss, Toyota spokesman said, but [...]
Oil prices ticked lower Friday after Libya declared a cease-fire following a United Nations’ vote for a no-fly zone over the nation.
The U.N. late Thursday voted 10-0, with 5 abstentions, to impose a no-fly zone over Libya in an effort to protect civilians in the battle between rebels and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi. [...]
All travelers with flights to or from Japan must check with their airline regarding the status of flights. Airwise is running a blog with updated information from each airline here.
Non-Japanese citizens parting the country still need a re-entry permit if they are to revisit on anything other than a tourist visa.
The Tokyo Immigration office stated [...]
Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the dollar knocked down sharply against the yen, reaching an all time low near 80. Analysts said that things will play out in a different way this time, largely because of an anticipated intervention.
Japanese authorities are soon expected to intervene in currency markets to arrest the yen’s appreciation. A stronger home [...]
Japanese fishing village of Taiji (in southwestern Honshu) has happen to be notorious in recent years for its annual dolphin hunt, in which some 2,500 dolphins and other small cetaceans are killed in coastal waters between September and April.
Upon capturing some injured or exhausted dolphins simply drown. Fishermen drag still-living animals on top of boats [...]
