KC Concepcion Is Back With A Vengeance: The Booty-licious Rogue Cover

Wow!

Look at what Piolo lost to whathisname!

Damn, woman!

Welcome back, Cassandra!

You make all the guys have the hots all the more for you now!

I would suggest that Piolo do a cover that is more daring than this one too!

Just to show everyone else who hates him kung sino talaga ang mas maganda sa kanilang dalawa!

LOL!

Mannnnn!

Below is KC's last appearance on the mag, two years ago, lookin' so fine and all!

Anyway, if you're wondering what the curious cover symbolize, you can make your assumptions all you want, but if you have to know

that snake slithering out of her hand that held a head statue  is her pet named Coco (sexy name, eh?).

So there.

Yun lang.

Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns

By Paul J. Richards

Yahoo! announced Tuesday that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from the board of directors, effective immediately, and all of his other positions with the Internet company.
In addition to stepping down from the Yahoo! board, Yang has also resigned from the boards of Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Yahoo! said in a statement.
In a letter to Roy Bostock, the chairman of the Yahoo! board, Yang said "the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo!"
"As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future," Yang added.
"Jerry Yang is a visionary and a pioneer, who has contributed enormously to Yahoo! during his many years of service," Bostock said. "And while I and the entire board respect his decision, we will miss his remarkable perspective, vision and wise counsel."
Yang co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 with David Filo.
He served as chief executive from June 2007 to January 2009, during which time he notably turned down a $47 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.

Taylor Swift on Vogue USA Cover

By Eleanor Gower

Taylor Swift is stunning and sophisticated on Vogue magazine cover... but reveals she's been through ANOTHER 'earth shattering heartbreak'

She made her name as an occasionally gawky teenage country singer who wrote songs about love, heartbreak and being an outsider. But there was nothing remotely nerdy about Taylor Swift on this month's cover of Vogue magazine. The 22-year-old singer looks stunning and sophisticated in a series of beautiful outfits in the classy photographs, taken by celebrity photographer Mario Testino. One shot shows her posing on a vintage sofa in a striking pale green dress with floral design, teamed with high heeled white boots. Straightened hair and and smokey eye make-up compete the look, which Taylor also replicates with a prestigious cover spot for the magazine. 

Famous for writing about her personal life through her songs, Taylor says that her fourth album - the successor to her 2010 record Speak Now - will document more heartbreak. 'There's just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,' she tells the magazine. 'And that will turn out to be what the next album is about. 'The only way that I can feel better about myself—pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone - is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.'She also says that she is currently single, with no potential love matches on the horizon. 'I got nothing going on. I just don't really feel like dating,' she says in the interview, which appeared to have taken place late last year. 'I really have this great life right now, and I'm not sad and I'm not crying this Christmas, so I am really stoked about that. I am not gonna go into it. It's a sad story.' Taylor famously dated Jake Gyllenhaal for two months in late 2010 before breaking up before the Christmas holidays. She also previously had short romances with Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner and John Mayer. Jones Brothers singer Joe famously dumping her in a 27 second phone call when she was 18. 'I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid,' she tells Vogue. However, the star has learned a few things from her failed relationships - 'I have a few red flags now'- and lists them for the magazine. They include 'If someone doesn't seem to want to get to know me as a person but instead seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my Wikipedia page,' along with 'men who are threatened by what I do.' 'Also I can't deal with someone who's obsessed with privacy. 'If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can't do that.' The magazine also shows the star looking svelte in a pair of tight black trousers, high heeled boots and decorated beige jacket. However, the lucky singer says she doesn't like to work out too much.  'I don't ever want to be that person whose self-image overtakes who they are. I am not a fan of working out that much.' There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.'

The latest issue of Vogue is on sale on newstands on January 24. For more on Taylor, the full interview is on Vogue.com

What You Need To Know About Siri on iPhone 4S

Got a new Apple iPhone 4S and trying to figure out the voice-controlled personal assistant feature, Siri? We'll help you learn all you need to know, from what Siri is, to how to use it, and more.

•  By Jill Duffy

Open up your new iPhone 4S, turn that baby on, and … where the heck is Siri? If you've waited patiently to try Siri since October, when the voice-controlled personal assistant feature for Apple's iPhone 4S first debuted, let us help you set up Siri and learn a little about it in the process. Here's what you need to know.

What is Siri?
Siri is a speech-recognition computer application unique to the iPhone 4S. It has speech input and output, meaning you can speak to it, and it can speak back to you. The software is technically in beta, so while it's functional, it does have some limitations. Read "What is Siri?" to learn a little more about Siri's history and its basic functions on the iPhone 4S.
How to Use Siri
Siri isn't an "app" in the iPhone sense, meaning it's not something you can download from the App Store, and it doesn't have an icon that you can press from the phone's screen to launch it. While Siri comes fully pre-loaded on all iPhone 4S units, you still do need to set it up properly. To learn how, read "How to Use Siri."

How to Teach Siri Your Name
In setting up Siri, you'll want to be sure you properly teach it your name, as well as all the people you call, text, and email frequently. Siri will have trouble with a lot of proper names, especially spelling, if you don't train it. You will also want to teach it relationships, so it will understand what you mean when you say, "Call my wife." For more, see "How to Teach Siri Your Name."

30 Questions and Commands for Siri
Now that you've set up the personal assistant and taught it proper names, you'll want to get a sense of what it can and cannot process, which is crucial in setting your own expectations for the software. When Siri was first released, we put it through its paces and saved 30 examples of short dialogues we had with Siri so you can get an idea of where it succeeds as where it fails, including its performance in other languages and dialects of English. Take a quick spin through "30 Questions and Commands for Siri" to get a sense of what it can and can't do.
Where Else Can I Get Siri?
Unfortunately, Siri is unique to the iPhone 4S model only, and, according to a report, Apple has no plans to add Siri to older iPhones (though rough workarounds are emerging). However, there are similar apps on the market, the most impressive one being Dragon Go! for iPhone. Vlingo is the other popular option. Dragon Go! can't do everything Siri does, although it can perform a few neat tricks that stump Siri. See "Apple's Siri Versus Dragon Go! and Vlingo" to find out how these three programs measure up.
Why is Apple's Siri Female?
When set to American English, Siri has a female voice. Why? PCMag investigated. In the U.K., Siri is male and "his" voice was recently revealed.
Advanced Uses for Siri: Controlling Your Home
Once you become a Siri pro, as Marcus Schappi clearly did, you might want to experiment to see just how much you can get out of Siri. Schappi hacked his iPhone to create a system he calls the Ninja board, which he's using to control nearly everything in his home, such as a lamp and his laptop computer. This article about Schappi's hack, with an accompanying video, shows the Ninja board in action.

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Adele Rules 2011 With Top Selling Album & Song

Though it seemed a foregone conclusion months ago, Adele's "21" and her "Rolling in the Deep" single finish 2011 as the United States' top-selling album and song, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "21" sold 5.82 million copies last year, while "Rolling" moved 5.81 million downloads.

"21" -- Adele's second album -- is the biggest-selling set of any year since 2004, when Usher's "Confessions" sold 7.98 million. "21" also sells more than twice the amount of 2011's second-largest album -- Michael Buble's "Christmas," with 2.45 million. 2004 was the last year where the top selling set sold at least two times as much as the runner-up. "Confessions" was way ahead of Norah Jones' "Feels Like Home," which was the No. 2 seller of 2004 with 3.84 million.

Adele's '21' Claims 14th Week Atop Billboard 200

by Keith Caulfield, L.A.  |   January 04, 2012 11:00 EST

As predicted, Adele's "21" album jumps back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking its 14th non-consecutive week at the top of the tally.

The set sold 144,000 copies last week (down 64% according to Nielsen SoundScan) and continues to be the album with the most weeks at No. 1 since the "Titanic" soundtrack sailed with 16 weeks at No. 1 in 1998.

Among all albums by women, "21" now ties Whitney Houston's self-titled 1986 debut for the third-most weeks at No. 1. Only Houston's own soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" (20 weeks in 1992-1993) and Carole King's "Tapestry" (15 weeks in 1971) have earned more among the ladies.

Last week's No. 1 album, Michael Buble's "Christmas," drops to No. 24 with 21,000 (down 96%). It's the fourth album to fall from No. 1 to outside the top 20 in the past year, following Mac Miller's "Blue Slide Park" (1-23), Amos Lee's "Mission Bell" (1-25) and Cake's "Showroom of Compassion" (1-24).

A sudden drop for Buble's holiday effort isn't surprising -- even if it did spend five straight weeks at No. 1. Once Christmas has passed, holiday albums all suffer greatly.