ASAP Pop Viewers’ Choice Awards 2011 Nominees Revealed

Here are the nominees for ASAP Pop Viewers’ Choice Awards 2011 (List and Video) as revealed on ASAP Rocks last Sunday, October 2…

Pop Music Category

POP FEMALE ARTIST- (Pop FA)
Sarah Geronimo
Yeng Constantino
Anne Curtis
Angeline Quinto

POP MALE ARTIST – (Pop MA)
Jovit Baldivino
Gary Valenciano
Christian Bautista
Erik Santos

POP SONG – (Pop Song)
Sino Nga Ba Siya – Sarah Geronimo
Jeepney Love Story – Yeng Constantino
Porque – Maldita
Kunin Mo Na Ang Lahat Sa Akin – Angeline Quinto

POP ALBUM – (Pop Album)
Nang Dahil Sa Pag-Ibig – Bugoy Drilon
Forevermore – Juris
Patuloy And Pangarap – Angeline Quinto
One Heart – Sarah Geronimo

Pop Music Video Category

POP MUSIC VIDEO – (Pop MV)
OMG – Karylle
Sino Nga Ba Siya – Sarah Geronimo
Tambay – Spongecola
Patuloy And Pangarap – Angeline Quinto

POP CELEBRITY CAMEO – (Pop Celeb)
Eugene Domingo (Kean Cipriano – Wala Na Tayo)
Angel Locsin (Christian Bautista – Beautiful Girl)
Piolo Pascual (Yeng Constantino – Jeepney Love Story)
Anne Curtis (Jericho Rosales – Bumuhos Man Ang Ulan)

Pop Movies Category

POP MOVIE – (Pop Movie)
Catch Me… I’m In Love
Ang Tanging Ina Mo: Last Na ‘To
Zombadings 1: Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington
My Amnesia Girl

POP MOVIE THEMESONG – (POP MS)
Fallin – Sarah Geronimo (Catch Me I’m In Love)
Love Story – Gary Valenciano (In The Name Of Love)
Till My Heartaches End – Carol Banawa (Till My Heartaches End)
Mahal Kita Kasi – Toni Gonzaga (My Amnesia Girl)

POP SCREEN KISS – (Pop Kiss)
My Amnesia Girl – John Lloyd & Toni
Catch Me… I’m In Love – Sarah & Gerald
Till My Hearhaches End – Kim & Gerald
In The Name Of Love – Aga & Angel

POP LOVE TEAM – (Pop Love)
Sarah & Gerald (Catch Me… I’m In Love)
John Lloyd & Toni (My Amnesia Girl)
Melai & Jason (The Adventures of Pureza Queen Of The Riles)
Kim & Gerald (Till My Heartaches End)

Pop Kapamilya TV Category

POP KAPAMILYA TV SHOW – (POP Show)
Showtime
Mara Clara
100 Days To Heaven
Gandang Gabi Vice

POP KAPAMILYA TV CHARACTER – (Pop Char)
Ana Manalastas – Coney Reyes & Xyriel Manabat (100 Days To Heaven)
Jade/Yuan – Kim Chiu (My Binondo Girl)
Mara & Clara – Kathryn Bernandro & Julia Montes (Mara Clara)
Alexander/Javier – Coco Martin (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin)

POP KAPAMILYA TV THEMESONG – (Pop TS)
Kunin Mo Na Ang Lahat Sa Akin – Angeline Quinto (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin)
Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin – Juris & Gary Valenciano (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin)
Dahil Mahal Kita – Jovit Baldivino (Guns & Roses)
Gisingin Ang Puso – Liezel Garcia (Pure Love)

Pop Astig Category

POP FEMALE FASHIONISTA – (POP FASH)
Anne Curtis
Kim Chiu
Kris Aquino
Maja Salvador

POP MALE FASHIONISTA – (POP MFASH)
John Lloyd Cruz
Enchong Dee
Vice Ganda
Vhong Navarro

POP COVER GIRLS – (POP Cover)
Anne Curtis (Cosmo)
Sarah Geronimo (Meg)
Christine Reyes (Preview)
Angel Locsin (Gadgets)

POP PIN UP BOY – (POP Boy)
Enchong Dee
Paulo Avelino
Jake Cuenca
Derek Ramsay

TWEEN POPSIES – (POP TWEEN)
Julia-Diego
James-Devon
Kathryn-Daniel
Sam-Coleen

POP CUTIE – (POP CUTE)
Sam Concepcion
Enrique Gil
Daniel Padilla
Robi Domingo

POP FANS CLUB – (POP FANS)
Angeliners – Angeline Quinto
Popsters – Sarah Geronimo
Kimerald – Kim & Gerald
Enrich – Enchong & Erich

POP SENSATION – (POP SENS)
Shamcey Supsup
Marcelito Pomoy
Happy Feet
Maria Aragon

POP TWITTEZEN – (POP TWIT)
@143redangel – ANGEL LOCSIN
@annecurtissmith – ANNE CURTIS
@sgeronimo25 – SARAH GERONIMO
@vicegandako – VICE GANDA

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Justin Bieber Leads 2011 Kids’ Choice Awards Winners

Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus are among the winners in the 2011 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards which was held in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The full list of Nickelodeon’s 2011 Kids’ Choice Awards winners:

TELEVISION:

Favourite TV Show
iCarly

Favourite Reality Show
American Idol

Favourite TV Actor
Dylan Sprouse

Favourite TV Actress
Selena Gomez

Funniest TV Sidekick
Jennette McCurdy

Favourite Cartoon
SpongeBob SquarePants

SPORTS:

Favourite Male Athlete
Shaquille O’Neal

Favourite Female Athlete
Lindsey Vonn

FILM:

Favourite Movie
The Karate Kid

Favourite Movie Actor
Johnny Depp (Alice in Wonderland)

Favourite Movie Actress
Miley Cyrus (The Last Song)

Favourite Animated Movie
Despicable Me

Favourite Voice from an Animated Movie
Eddie Murphy (Shrek Forever After)

Favourite Buttkicker
Jackie Chan (The Karate Kid)

MUSIC:

Favourite Music Group
The Black Eyed Peas

Favourite Male Singer
Justin Bieber

Favourite Female Singer
Katy Perry

Favourite Song
“Baby” (by Justin Bieber, featuring Ludacris)

OTHER CATEGORIES:

Favourite Book
Diary of Wimpy Kid series

Favourite Video Game
Just Dance 2

Arm Fart Hall of Fame
Josh Duhamel

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Oracle's choice to nix Itanium support hurts HP sales

Filed Under: By: Larry Dignan August 19, 2011 5:55 AM PDT

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are at odds over Itanium support and the former appears to be taking the body blows.

In June, HP filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara to force Oracle to support the Itanium platform. In March, Oracle had said it would stop supporting HP's Itanium platform because Intel planned to shut it down in the long run. HP and Intel both denied Oracle's claims. The two parties last month exchanged courtroom jabs over Itanium support.

Now it appears that Oracle's Itanium decisions are impacting sales of HP's mission-critical systems. From a buyer perspective, putting off a purchase makes sense. Why would an Oracle shop buy an Itanium based-system if support was uncertain going forward?

Yesterday, HP CEO Leo Apotheker--amid a massive corporate revamp--acknowledged that the Itanium flap was hurting business. Apotheker said:

Revenue in business critical systems declined 9 percent year over year. This decline is sharper than expected as our ability to close deals has been impacted by Oracle's decision and orders are being delayed or canceled. We are working diligently to enforce the commitments that Oracle has made to our customers and to HP.

Apotheker referenced Oracle a few times in regards to Itanium. He also said that HP was taking Oracle to court over "anti-customer behavior." It's unclear where this Itanium spat goes ultimately, but for now the flap is freezing sales of Itanium-based systems.

(Credit: Hewlett-Packard) This story was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines .

If you have a question or comment for Larry Dignan, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.

Larry Dignan is editor in chief of ZDNet and editorial director of CNET's TechRepublic. He has covered the technology and financial-services industries since 1995.

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Spoilt for technological choice

17 August 2011 Last updated at 23:01 GMT Spoilt for choice: TOA Technologies CTO Irad Carmi says he is like "a child in a candy store", with a host of new mobile technologies to work with Each week we ask high-profile technology decision-makers three questions.

This week it is Irad Carmi, chief technology officer (CTO) of TOA Technologies.

TOA Technologies provides on-demand mobile workforce management applications for large and medium-sized enterprises. The company has approximately 250 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in the United States with offices in Europe and Latin America.

TOA Technologies' Irad Carmi says context awareness is the next tech change on the horizon What's your biggest technology problem right now?

My problem is that of a child in a candy store - what to pick first.

I mean mobile developments. The rapid advancement of mobile technology is electrifying.

There's so much happening, new technology, new features, new devices, therefore so many new opportunities.

For us as a technology company that provides mobile solutions it's pretty amazing. It's a question of what do we do first.

So far we have done some very interesting things. For example we allow mobile employees to do everything in a mobile browser, even if they're not connected to the network. And even if the battery dies, they can restart the device, set the browser and continue to work.

These are things that could not even be dreamt of a couple of years ago - and we see it as just the beginning.

What's the next big tech thing in your industry?

It's definitely context awareness. What I mean by that is basically using computers as the intelligent machines we all hoped they would be.

If you think about it today computers are extremely powerful, and offer us a lot of choices. But they always wait for us to make that choice.

Basically we need to tell the computer what our problem is and they will help us solve it.

Context awareness is the ability to intelligently decide what the user needs, based on their location and the context of what they are doing.

This allows us technologists to create applications that are smart, that can basically anticipate what is expected of them and be significantly more helpful and more user-friendly.

The best example is social networking.

It provides people with the ability to communicate freely at any time to any size of crowd.

If you think about the workplace, especially the mobile workplace which is what our company serves - if you are aware of the context of what you're doing, and where you are, it can make this communication over social networking much more effective as a work tool.

It's not just telling them about the weather or the last movie I saw, but actually asking for help with a specification you need to solve, or posing a problem that many people need to know about.

So that's the direction we see technology heading. Taking existing features and making them context aware.

What's the biggest technology mistake you've ever made - either at work or in your own life?

I love this question! I have a great example from my personal life.

I am a classical musician by training, and I listen to music a lot.

In the late 90s my wife and I saw an ad for a music store that was getting rid of its vinyl LP collection.

Because then digital technology was taking over, and the world had already moved to the CD. But the quality of LPs is significantly superior to CDs, even to this day.

We thought great! We went to the store and bought 10 big opera albums, new and plastic-wrapped.

Those big shiny orginally-wrapped opera albums are still on my shelf, I've never opened them.

Because the truth is that when technology changes in the world, there's no way back.

Hopefully one day I will figure out the machinery and the time to listen to those wonderful operas.

But the lesson learned that applies to my profession as a CTO is that my job is to figure out not just what's good now, but also which way the world is heading in terms of technology, and making sure that what we do as a company is always relevant.

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Charice Makes First Teen Choice Awards Appearance

Our very own Charice graced the Teen Choice Awards Sunday night (Monday morning in Manila) and presented the Acuvue Inspire award together with Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey!

The singing sensation walked down the red carpet of this year’s Teen Choice Awards and talked about Glee and her latest movie “Here Comes the Boom”.

During the event, Charice also presented the Choice Song of the Summer award and an Acuvue Inspire Award to Demi Lovato with “Teen Wolf” star Tyler Posey.

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2011 Teen Choice Awards – Winners Revealed

The winners for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards have just been announced Sunday night, August 7, 2011 which was aired live in Manila from Los Angeles via Velvet.

Here is the complete list of winners for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards:

Choice Movie Actor (Romantic Comedy):
Ashton Kutcher (No Strings Attached)

Choice Comedian:
Ellen Degeneres

Choice Movie Actor (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Choice TV Actress (Drama):
Blake Lively (Gossip Girl)

Choice TV Show (Drama):
Gossip Girl

Choice Movie Scene Stealer (Male):
Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Choice Movie Scene Stealer (Female):
Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Choice Female Hottie:
Selena Gomez

Choice TV Actress (Comedy):
Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place)

Choice Movie Hissy Fit:
Ed Helms (The Hangover Part II)

Choice TV Show (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
The Vampire Diaries

Choice TV Actor (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries)

Choice TV Actress (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries)

Choice TV Scene Stealer (Female):
Katerina Graham (The Vampire Diaries)

Choice TV Scene Stealer (Male):
Michael Trevino (The Vampire Diaries)

Choice TV Show (Comedy):
Glee

Choice TV Actor (Comedy):
Cory Monteith (Glee)

Choice TV Breakout Star:
Darren Criss (Glee)

Choice Action Movie:
Fast Five

Choice Movie Actor (Action):
Johnny Depp (The Tourist)

Choice Movie Actress (Action):
Angelina Jolie (The Tourist)

Choice Music Star of the Summer (Male):
Bruno Mars

Choice Music Star of the Summer (Female):
Katy Perry

Choice TV Reality Show:
Jersey Shore

Choice TV Reality/Variety Star (Male):
Paul ‘Pauly D’ Del Vecchio (Jersey Shore)

Choice Female Artist:
Taylor Swift

Choice Female Country Artist:
Taylor Swift

Choice Country Single:
Mean by Taylor Swift

Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon (Female):
Taylor Swift

Choice Break-Up Song:
Back to December by Taylor Swift

Choice Movie Actress (Comedy):
Cameron Diaz (Bad Teacher)

Choice Summer Song:
Skyscraper by Demi Lovato

Choice Male Artist:
Justin Bieber

Choice Male Hottie:
Justin Bieber

Choice Twit:
Justin Bieber

Choice TV Villain:
Justin Bieber (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)

Choice Vampire:
Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Choice Music Group:
Selena Gomez & The Scene

Choice Love Song:
Love You Like a Love Song by Selena Gomez & The Scene

Choice Single:
Who Says by Selena Gomez & The Scene

Choice Movie Actor (Drama):
Robert Pattinson (Water For Elephants)

Choice Summer Movie:
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2

Choice Summer Movie Star (Male):
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2)

Choice Summer Movie Star (Female):
Emma Watson (Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2)

Choice Movie Actress (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
Emma Watson (Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1)

Choice Movie Villain:
Tom Felton (Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1)

Choice Movie Lip-Lock:
Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1)

Choice Movie (Sci-Fi/Fantasy):
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1

Choice Movie Actress (Romantic Comedy):
Emma Stone (Easy A)

Ultimate Choice Award:
Taylor Swift

Acuvue Inspire Award:
Demi Lovato

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Somali refugee: 'We have to live here. We have no choice.'

Aug. 1: A U.N. representative says that famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions in Somalia. The number of people in urgent need of food could keep growing over the next three or four months. NBC's Kate Snow reports from Dadaab, Kenya.

By Kate Snow, NBC News Correspondent

DADAAB, Kenya – Osman Ali is a tall man who walks with purpose. He has the gait of someone who’s done a lot of walking in his life.

No surprise – he is a herder. Or rather, he was. Most of the Somali refugees here in Dadaab have left behind a nomadic lifestyle involving goats, cattle or crops.

"I had 40 camels, 30 goats and 60 cattle," he told me proudly as we walked the red-dirt path back to his temporary hut on the outskirts of the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab. Not anymore. When the drought hit, his livestock died of starvation, one by one. Eventually, he had no way to make a living for his large family. (Ali has two wives with 11 children between them).

With no other alternative, Ali gathered his own family and some of his siblings and their families. The entire clan set out from Dinsor, Somalia, on foot. It took them 20 days and 20 nights of walking to reach the camp.

Ali says they were lucky none of the women were hurt or brutalized along the journey. There have been many reports of rape and sexual violence against the women who have been forced to flee their homes in Somali to reach refugee camps in northern Kenya.

But he did lose a nephew who died of hunger as they made the long trek.

Home now is a tent he built out of branches, covered in plastic bags. When he invited me inside, I had to duck and watch out for thorns. The entire hut was about 8 feet in diameter – the size of a two-person backpacking tent. Ali is living there with one of his wives and six children.

As we walked in, I jumped back. A 2-year-old was barely visible, asleep on the ground. I nearly stepped on her. She was tinier than a 2-year-old should be.

I asked Ali how long he thinks he can live like this. He shrugged. "This is the situation we’re in," he said. "We have to live here."

"We have no choice," he said. And then he rubbed his thumb and fingers together, the universal sign for money. No money.

Yes, he is angry. But he is also resigned, tired and hungry.

Despite that hunger, the Ali clan is observing the traditional Ramadan fast. They won’t eat at all until sundown. And then the women will prepare dinner for everyone.

This afternoon they hauled back their first rations of oil and flour after being processed at the refugee camp. The rations are supposed to be enough to last three weeks. Ali believes it won’t last that long. They have to share their supply with other members of their clan who have none. It is, he said, the right thing to do.

See more of Kate Snow's reporting on the famine in East Africa on Nightly News tonight.

Famine in the Horn of Africa: How to help

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