At 200 million users, Facebook is:

• Twice as big as the largest number of people who have ever watched a Superbowl game


• Twice as big as YouTube


• Twice as big as Skype


• Bigger than the number of people who own gaming consoles in their homes (190m)


• Bigger than the population of all but 4 countries in the world. (Just passed Brazil, next in line is Indonesia and then the US.)


• Twice as big as eBay.


• Four times as big as the number of people in the US who run on treadmills.


• It's twice as big as the number of malnourished people in India. Another way to look at that is to imagine that half of the people on Facebook were malnourished and living in one place.

Now imagine if all the brainpower spent on building stupid Facebook apps was instead spent on helping all the malnourished people in India and around the world. Imagine, though, if the 100 million people who like to bowl gave that up in favor of working for world peace.

These numbers can't be directly compared with any real meaning, but we think it's interesting for context. It's still cooler to live in France than it is to have a Facebook account, even if it is only 30% as popular.

For whatever reason, Apple's iPod ends up in the middle of quite a few crimes. The latest story, however, is even more extreme than usual. Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles. As the story goes, he managed to somehow correctly guess thousands of valid shuffle serial numbers and have replacements shipped to him; once they arrived, he sold them for less than MSRP to excited buyers, all while giving Apple a prepaid VISA number that would reject the charges after he failed to send back the nonexistent "original" shuffle. It's rather amazing to us that he was able to pull this off for so long without being noticed, but even if it works for awhile, we've learned yet again that crime doesn't pay. In fact, the feds have already seized a half million bucks from one brokerage account, some real estate and a trio of vehicles. Tragic, yeah?

Just in case you didn’t get enough of window into The Wonderful World of Hogan on their VH1 reality series, wrestling legend Terry Bollea, perhaps best known as Hulk Hogan, has inked a six-figure deal with St. Martin’s Press to pen an account of his life.

According to veteran celebrity snitch Cindy Adams, the 320 page memoir–with a 16-page color photo insert–will cover The Hulk’s humble beginnings as a boy growing up in Tampa, his two-decade marriage to Lina Bollea, and of course, his career as a 12-time World Heavyweight Champ and six-time World Wrestling Federation Champ.

Perhaps most notably, Hulk will discuss his son Nick’s near-fatal car crash that left a young Marine brain-dead. The Hogan’s conduct in the wake of the crash left the family open to public scorn.

British actress Emily Blunt is forever grateful to a teacher at her former school - for inspiring her to take to the stage and cure her childhood stutter.

The Devil Wears Prada star suffered a bad stammer as a schoolgirl, but finally overcame her speech impediment when a teacher urged her to take up acting.

She says, "I did have a bad stuttering problem as a child. I'd try to push the words out, but it was so frustrating. My parents took me to speech coaches and relaxation coaches.

"It didn't work. Then one of my teachers at school had a brilliant idea and said, 'Why don't you speak in an accent in our school play?' I distanced myself from me through this character, and it was so freeing that my stuttering stopped when I was onstage. It really was a miracle."

Joe Jonas is at the center of a photo scandal in which he appears to mock Asians - just one month after fellow teen singing sensation Miley Cyrus was forced to apologize for a similar prank.

The 19-year-old Jonas Brothers star, older brother to Cyrus' ex-boyfriend Nick, appears to pull his eyes with his pinky fingers as he strikes a similar pose to the Hannah Montana star in a picture which has leaked online, reports HuffingtonPost.com.

Cyrus, 16, is facing legal action from a group of Asian Pacific Islanders over her own photo controversy after images of the singer and a group of friends pulling the same pose appeared online last month.

She apologized for the photos, but it was rejected by civil rights activists and they are now seeking damages for the offense.

A spokesperson for Jonas was not available for comment as WENN went to press.

For everyone who doubted Kendra Wilkinson's status as a natural blonde,















she's got photographic evidence.

The reality tv star dug up childhood photos and posted them on her blog to combat claims that she's a fake blonde. "Here's proof that I AM originally a NATURAL blonde!!!" she writes.

The bride-to-be, who is looking for a minister to preside over her nuptials to football star Hank Baskett, also wanted fans to see that she hasn't changed much and "to show everyone a little bit about the young KDubs hahaha!"

Even as an autopsy gets underway in New York the day after her death, many questions remain about just what happened on a Quebec mountain that left Natasha Richardson with ultimately fatal,severe brain trauma.

Roughly 1.4 million people in the U.S. suffer from traumatic brain injuries each year, according to the California Brain Injury Association – and 50,000 die from it. A majority of these injuries result from falls just like Richardson's.

"There is no telling what the forces are that were applied to her head," says Dr. Jeff Victoroff, Associate Professor of Neurology at USC's School of Medicine. "People underestimate the enormous amount of physical force that can be generated by nothing more than a standing level fall."

Medical experts say Richardson likely suffered a subdural hemotoma – the breaking of blood vessels inside the brain. Usually, the body responds to such an injury instantly by clotting the blood around the injured area to keep it from bleeding out. So why, presumably, didn't that happen here?

"The speculation that comes first to mind is that there is something wrong with her blood so that it doesn't clot properly," says Dr. Victoroff, adding that pain killers such as Motrin or Nuprin could interfere with natural blood clotting.

Others wonder if Richardson might have suffered an aneurysm, and whether the real damage occurred even before she even fell down the slope.

"You always have to wonder if the fall was the result of something that happened in the brain rather than the cause, like a stroke or a massive brain hemorrhage," says Dr. Neil Martin, Chairman of Neurosurgery at UCLA Medical School. "But arguing against a massive problem like that is that immediately after the fall she seemed to be OK."

Still, says Martin, "It could have been a minor warning leak from an aneurysm and the deterioration an hour later might have been a second massive hemorrhage. It is scary and more than a bit puzzling."

Could She Have Been Saved?

For Richardson's loved ones, the most haunting question is whether she could have been saved had she been treated immediately. According to a spokesperson for the Mont Tremblant ski resort, Richardson was lucid after she fell on a beginner's slope, and declined medical attention until she started complaining of headaches about an hour later.

According to experts, there is no way of knowing, at least until a full CT scan shows the depth and breadth of her injuries. And that information may be revealed when the results of the autopsy are released later on Thursday.

"If the hemorrhage can occur over the surface of the brain, where it can be corrected by surgery if detected early, perhaps yes there could have been another outcome," says Dr. Martin. "At the same time, the injury could have very well occurred deep inside the brain, in which case surgery – or any other treatment for that matter – probably wouldn't have helped."

And giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “pussy whipped….”

Former Project Runway contestant Kenley Collins was arrested this week after assaulting her fiance with their cat. Animal Cruelty! Quick, somebody call PETA!

According to New York City Police officials, Kenley is accused of tossing the feline, a laptop, and three apples at live-in lover Zak Penley during an argument in the couple’s Brooklyn apartment on Tuesday.

She was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

“It was a miscommunication,” the aspiring designer told The New York Post on Thursday. “Fights happen, And that’s that. There is no case.”

Get rid of the pesky cord that normally comes with headphones and go wireless by using Sony’s lightweight Bluetooth headset with any compatible A2DP phone. Incredibly stylish, the headphones don’t look like the normally uncomfortable and clunky Bluetooth headsets, but they are simply regular, sleek headphones connected by a short cable. The stereo sound will do your music justice and there’s no loss of audio quality just because it’s played wirelessly. With its great design, convenience, and sound, Sony’s HBH-IS800 headphones are a must-have for any music enthusiast on-the-go.

Toshiba Japan announced a new portable DVD player today [JP], the SD-P93DTW, which is equipped with a One-Seg digital TV tuner. The device is Japan-only at this point. But Toshiba sells the SDP93S in the US, which is essentially the same player minus the TV tuner (the tuner is useless outside Japan and Brazil anyway). And Americans have to pay a lot less for their player.

Japanese buyers will be set back a whopping $520, while the SDP93S costs just $180 at Amazon. The Japanese version is also equipped with an analogue TV tuner and supports SD/SDHC/microSD/micro SDHC cards but apart from these features (the American version supports SD cards only), it seems to be the same model: a swiveling 9-inch TFT LCD screen with 800×480 resolution, DivX support, JPEG viewer, virtual surround sound and built-in speakers.

The SD-P93DTW will hit Japanese stores at the end of April.

A new Facebook group has surged in popularity over the past few days as it claims to provide instructions on how to revert your Facebook to the old design. The group titled “I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO GET THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK!” gives step by step instructions on how do just that. While I haven’t tried out the process, it sounds logical.

Numerous users that have joined the group claim that it doesn’t work. Regardless of the tutorial’s accuracy, users are joining at a rapid pace. Just in the last hour I’ve counted over 300 new users. What has accounted for the group’s rapid growth? The primary growth is due to the group administrator’s decision to post step by step instructions for promoting the group prior to listing out the instructions for reverting back to the previous design.

Everything listed in the instructions makes sense but I don’t have any desire to go back to the old design. My guess is that Facebook will disable this functionality in the near future. Theoretically Facebook could store copies of the “old design” and “new design” at all times, in order to make it easier to roll-back in case of substantial errors or backlash from users.

While I haven’t heard substantial feedback from users about frustration with the new design, many users have expressed frustration with Facebook regularly changing the layout of the site. Some users claim that Facebook switches the design just as they get the previous iteration functioning properly. Have you found the new design easy to use? Have you tested out the steps described in this group? If so, did it work? We’d love to know!

The company's new Brit-only, Italian-named candybar adds to the slim form factor of previous handsets with design flair and an upgraded screen.

Those who fondly remember Samsung’s older ultra-slim candybars like the U100 and X820 will be happy to know that the company hasn’t abandoned that design ethic completely in favor of beefier iPhone lookalikes. On Friday, the company’s U.K. armshowed off its new Lucido, another thin candybar that dons aluminum accents and an OLED display.

The name translates to “sleek” in Italian, which is appropriate given its 11.8mm-thick profile and dark, brushed-metal accents on the face. Unlike previous models like the U800, the apparent predecessor to the Lucido, it will adopt OLED technology for its 2.2-inch display, which typically delivers superior brightness and contrast.

Other specs on the pocketable slimline phone include a 5-megapixel camera on the back (also trimmed by metal), 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet, and GPS with Google maps integration.

At the moment, the Lucido is slated for an April release, but only on U.K. carriers, and a price has not yet been announced.

Unlike other Bollywood stars who aim and long for Hollywood projects, but keep Mumbai as their base clinging on to Bollywood films, The 24-year-old Slumdog Millionaire actress, Freida Pinto has moved to New York to concentrate on her Hollywood career. Not that her move has been too hasty or unplanned. The gorgeous actress has already been signed by Woody Allen for his next film where she will star alongside Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.

And also, the gal is making her presence felt on the international front dazzling at major events. Recently, she was spotted at the Chanel show in Paris Fashion Week where she outdid her fellow front row occupants supermodels Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer. She was was the centre of attention in a white draped cocktail dress with a black layered chain detail and black stilettos.

The Mumbai native, had earlier confessed to getting star struck despite now being a celebrity in her own right, with the stupendous success of her debut film which went on to win eight Academy awards.

This afternoon Koen Peeters sent us a screenshot of a modified version of Facebook’s help page which states, “We’ve updated our homepage because we wanted to copy Twitter.com.” Initially I thought the screenshot was fake since the help center page was titled “Help Centre”. We quickly found out that the reason it was spelled that way was because it was visible for those who were using the site under the U.K. version of English.

So how did this happen? Well, we can only think of two ways. First, it could have been someone in Facebook’s U.K. office as there has been other modifications of site pages before. The alternative reason could be that users decided to modify the translated version of Facebook but we aren’t quite sure that it’s possible since the “English (U.K.)” version of Facebook has been available for quite some time.

While I doubt that we’ll ever know who changed this page, it’s definitely slightly embarrassing error. If you want to view the page yourself, you must install the the Facebook Translations application and view the help page using the “English (U.K.)” version. Our guess is that by the time you’ve done this, the error will have been fixed.

If you don't agree with the new conditions , you'll be kicked out of the Google Adsense program at the end of May.


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jennifer Aniston's musiscian beau John Mayer has approached top US jeweller Lorraine Schwartz to custom-make a two milion pounds engagement ring for his girlfriend.

Schwartz has earlier created rings for celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum and Beyonce Knowles.

"Money is no object for John. He is creating a vintage-style classic ring for Jen. He's looking at 18-carat flawless diamond so he won't get much change from 2 million pounds," dailymail.co.uk quoted a source close to the couple saying.

"When he does get down on one knee, he wants to be completely sure he gets the right answer. He knows a ring like that would be hard to refuse," the source added.

Slumdog Millionaire" catapulted her to Hollywood and now actress Freida Pinto is in the league of actresses vying to be the new Bond girl.

Freida was invited to a screen test for the next spy adventure, reports thesun.co.uk.

The 24-year-old actress was apparently first spotted by producers during the casting for "Quantum of Solace" - the 22nd Bond film released last year.

"Freida came to the attention of the Bond team when they were casting 'Quantum of Solace'. She was too young at the time to have a part as a love interest for a secret agent. But she has blossomed into an incredibly stunning young woman and would look perfect on Daniel Craig's arm," a source said.

The chances of the actress' participation in the film seem strong as executive producer of the film Barbara Broccoli is eager to cast her.

"Danny Boyle is favourite to take the helm of the next movie which would increase Freida's chances of a starring role," added the source.

If Freida is lucky enough to bag the role of a Bond girl, it would be her next international project after the Woody Allen movie that she has been signed up for.

Kareena Kapoor wearing a blue gown arrived the launching event of Anne French Roll On lotion cream at the Hotel Taj Lands End. Kareena Kapoor who is known for her zero figure and fitness looks gorgeous. The bluish gown is absolutely fantastic and it shows her beauty perfectly at the event. I don’t know why this dress seems like someone has wear before, i think Deepika Padukone has wear similar kind of dress at some shampoo “Sunsilk” event, may be I am wrong as Deepika dress was upto her knees only.

Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus is suffering from a heart condition. The pop star/actress reveals in her autobiography "Miles to Go" that she has tachycardia, meaning her heart rate exceeds the range of a normal resting heart rate.

And although the condition isn't life-threatening, Cyrus admits she struggles to deal with the issue.

She writes, "The type of tachycardia I have isn't dangerous. It won't hurt me, but it does bother me. There is never a time onstage when I'm not thinking about my heart."

'Slumdog Millionaire' starlet Freida Pinto's star just keeps on rising

! She's gained international recognition for her first ever role in the Oscar winning 'Slumdog,' signed onto to co-star in a W

oody Allen film, walked the ramp at Milan fashion week, hob knobbed with tons of a-list celebrities, and now she's making waves in the make-up industry. The former model has signed onto become the new face of cosmetics giant, Estee Lauder! Pretty big news, as her face will be seen in magazine adverts, television commercials and so on, giving her tons more exposure.

According to reports, the deal is worth $350,000 dollars and confirms the fact that Freida's become a hot property. Freida joins the likes of Liz Hurley and Gwyneth Paltrow, who are both spokespersons for the make-up company. Plus Freida becomes the company's first ever Indian spokesperson! How exciting! Just goes to show how this whole east meets west collaboration keeps growing. If you ask us, it's about time Desis are shown in a more international light in the entertainment industry!

Freida joins Aishwarya Rai, who is a spokesperson for L'Oreal on an international scale, as another Indian face for cosmetics. It'll be nice to have an Indian woman representing a make-up company

when many Desi girls have often complained about a lack of cosmetics made especially for South Asian skin types. Maybe this will help lead to makeup companies paying more attention to that fact.

All that aside, we want to know what you think of Freida landing the Estee Lauder contract. Is it cool that she's getting all this recognition? Or is she becoming a tad too overexposed? Drop us a comment with your thoughts on the matter!

There's a lot of debate out there about who's hot and who's not. Usually we just wind up talking about those sexy couples that we can't get enough of in Bollywood or Hollywood. But even we have to admit that every once in a while there's a couple that you just can't help but stare at when you see them toge

ther. The fact that two exceptionally attractive people come togeth

er seems kind of unfair, but at least we still get to judge the level of their hotness. So we were sitting around thinking, "Are Bipasha Basu and John Abraham hotter than Brad Pitt and AngelinaJolie?"

They are both undeniably successful couples who have done

well for themselves and joined forces to create an unstoppable force. There are even some similarities, starting with the fact that they're all actors. Also, both couples are unmarried, which is still somewhat culturally frowned upon for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, more so than it is for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. And there is no denying that both of the people involved that make up these couples are sex symbols in their own right. As for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, they both seem to be

very health focused and love to exercise. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie seem to be more baby-focused and are notorious for their willingness to continue to adopt, which set off a mini-trend as seen with Madonna.

It's a toss-up and kind of difficult to say that one is better than the o

ther,

or is it? The couples are sexy, young, and taking the Bollywood and Hollywood film industries by storm. So we want to turn over this oh-so difficult question to our readers. Do you think Bipasha Basu and John Abraham are hotter or do you think that no one can match the level of hotness that is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Leave us your comments on these sexy couples.

Lakme Fashion Week is almost here! If you need to know what the hottest trends will be this fall, then you want to be at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai on March 27-31st. The event will not only showcase what the hottest trends for the fall will be, but will also celebrate the last tenyears of Indian fashion! Lakme and co-sponsor, IMG Fashion, have announced the sponsors and designers to be featured.

Some familiar names will be sponsoring the big event, such as Levi's, SkodaAuto, Westside, and DHL - these companies have been sponsors for several years now. There are also some new names collaborating to sponsor Fashion Week. Carlsberg, Grey Goose, Marie Claire, and Barbie are just a few of the added sponsors.

Lakme Fashion Week should prove to be a great mix of both old and new designers. Eigh

t up-and-coming young designers will see their creations walk the runway for a segment titled GenNext. Along with the unknowns will be eight emerging designers and 48 established designers. And the star of the show is veteran designer Anamika Khanna. The legendary designer will be making her comeback in the "Lakme Grand Finale."

Some of the other big name designers to look out for at this year's Fashion week are Anand Kabra, Wendell Rodricks, Manish Malhotra, Manish Gupta, Krishna Mehta, Rahul Mishra, Preeti Chandra, Asmita Marwa, Troy Costa, and Shalini and Paras.

Aside from the 65 designers, which will be showcased on the actual ramp, 73 artists will be presented in a collection at "The Source" - a marquee area which will feature various designers from all over the world, including India, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, and multiple South East Asian countries. Lakme will also be bringing back Menswear Day and the Group Accessory Designer show with four designers, which were both a huge hit with gue

sts and buyers last year. And since it is never too early to start filling your closets with the next hottest trends, Lakme has announced the dates for the Spring/Summer 2010 Fashion Week: September 18-22 at the Grand Hyatt once again.

So Desi Hits! readers let us know, are you interested in Lakme Fashion Week? Will any of you be attending the event?

R&B artist on the rise Bobby Moon is trying to break through into the R&B scene, and he's going to have major R&B star Akon backing him up. The Houston, Texas born Desi released his single "She Got Me High" and is ready to blow up big time. The 27 year old singer/songwriter is definitely looking to proceed forward with new music. He wants to go R&B, but he's definitely staying true to his Desi roots by singing in Hindi on the song.

This will be his first single off his forthcoming album under RCE/Kon Live Distribution. Kon Live Distribution is Akon's R&B label, so the man behind 'Lonely' and 'Don't Matter' and countless other hits will be personally working with Bobby Moon throughout the process. That's a big time figure to be helping you try to break into the R&B /pop world. This will be Bobby Moon's second album and his first one since 2004's 'The Rising.' More often than not, Akon has the Midas touch when it comes to breaking new artists. Two of his biggest finds have been T-Pain and Lady Gaga, so let's hope he has similar success with Bobby Moon so we can see R&B become just a little more Desi.

It's definitely cool to see a Desi like Bobby Moon get the star treatment so he can be a force in R&B. The track record is there so keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime we have a clip of the new song "She Got Me High." Listen to it and let us know what you think? Do you think Akon hooked Bobby Moon up or do you think Bobby Moon needs to go back into the lab to make a better single? Let us know whether you love it or hate it.

"She Got Me High"

Good luck getting Jennifer Aniston to shut her piehole about ex-husband Brad Pitt

. Sheesh.

In a interview for the March 16 issue of Britain’s Hello Magazine

, the Marley & Me star says she still loves Brad, despite the fact that he left her after an alleged affair with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, who he went on to start a family with.

Jen hopes the pair can be “good friends again” sometime in the future.

“I don’t regret any of that time with Brad and I’m not here to beat myself up about it. They were seven very intense years together and it was beautiful and complicated,” says the actress. “I will love Brad for the rest of my life - you can’t take away good memories. Were there times when I had a little ‘pity party’ for myself? Of course. Who hasn’t done that?”

She adds, “I really do hope that we’ll be good friends again at some point.”

Pamela Anderson strutted her stuff on the catwalk as part of Vivienne Westwood’s Fall/Winter 2009-2010 ready-to-wear show in Paris on Friday. The actress, who is the face of the British designer’s current campaign, showed off three different looks from the upcoming collection before taking a bow with Vivienne herself.

Wait…Amy Winehouse can’t drive?

At 25, Amy Winehouse is looking forward to learning how to drive.

Such her return to the U.K., following an extended vacay on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Amy is looking for different outlets to keep her away from the lure of alcohol and drugs, The Sun reports.

“Learning to drive is top of her list. She wants a cute vintage car to drive around her posh new neighborhood,” an insider says. “It’s great news for her friends and family - she will have to avoid drink and drugs in order to get behind the wheel.”

In an entry on her official Myspace Blog late Friday, the British-born rapper, whose real name is Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, denied a Latina.com scoop which claimed she’d given her tot the odd moniker.

“My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. Hes a baby, he don’t need press!” the new mom wrote in an all-caps.

(That means she’s yelling at us, in case you didn’t know.)

“I didnt release the baby name because I didnt think it was news!!!!” the “Paper Planes” star continued. “But I will be back with something news worthy soon, till then go pick on Apple, Satchel and Moon Unit.”