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Charlize Theron Gushes About Her Adorable Family on Ellen DeGeneres

Charlize Theron has two movies coming out this summer and, whether she likes it or not, she has to answer some personal questions while she's promoting them. Luckily, she's not all that shy when it comes to her son Jackson, her latest addition to her family. Though she's usually fiercely private, Cha...

25 May 2012
05:28 GMT

Sales of NFC-Enabled Handsets Reached 30 Million in 2011

Handsets packing NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities have started to become increasingly popular among users around the world, and sales reached 30 million last year alone. According to a recent report from Berg Insight, sales of NFC-enabled smartphones are expected to enjoy a compound annual growth rate (...

27 March 2012
15:11 GMT

Charlize Theron Talks to Ryan Seacrest About Being a Mommy

Earlier this week, word got out that Charlize Theron had adopted a baby boy named Jackson, a report confirmed by her publicist. During a recent interview with Ryan Seacrest, the star herself confirmed the happy news. Charlize, who has never ruled out the possibility of having children even though she made it clear ...

17 March 2012
06:30 GMT

Sandra Bullock Is Adopting Another Child

Sandra Bullock is about to be a mommy again. The Oscar-winning actress, who already has an adopted son, is in the process of adding another member to her family, Radar Online has learned. She's always said she wants more than a child – and she's now taking active steps to see her dream come true. ...

16 March 2012
04:39 GMT

Charlize Theron Adopts Baby Boy Jackson

Charlize Theron is a mommy. The gorgeous actress has adopted a baby boy named Jackson, reports in the press say, confirmed by her publicist. Further details are not available at the moment. She never spoke to the press about her intention to adopt but, then again, Charlize was never the kind of celebrity that dishe...

15 March 2012
05:08 GMT

RSPCA Halves the Fees for Feline Adoptions

Now would be a great time to adopt a rescued kitty, taking into account that the officials from RSPCA recently announced they would halve the fees for feline adoptions. Such a measure is meant to encourage a larger segment of the population to provide a new home for almost 30 misfortunate kittens, victims of negligen...

22 November 2011
03:34 GMT

Hugh Jackman Opens Up About Adoption

Hugh Jackman is not only the nicest guy in Hollywood, but he also has a reputation for one of the most endearing family guys in showbiz. Hearing him speak of how he and wife Deborra-Lee Furness came to the painful realization that they couldn’t have children naturally confirms that.He’s repeatedly been ho...

28 September 2011
11:37 GMT

Rep Denies Amy Winehouse Adoption Story

Amy Winehouse had no intention of adopting a girl from St Lucia – and certainly did not start the legal proceedings for it, her rep says in response to yesterday’s story of how she was planning on becoming a mother at the time of her death. As we also informed you, a 10-year-old girl and her grandmother f...

2 August 2011
06:13 GMT

Amy Winehouse Was Adopting a Girl When She Died

When she died a little over a week ago, aged just 27, British singer Amy Winehouse was in the process of adopting a baby girl from St Lucia, where she’d spent many months in a bid to make clean. The 10-year-old girl is now saying they were already like family. Dannika Augustine, pictured here with Amy on on...

1 August 2011
02:44 GMT

Denise Richards Adopts Newborn Baby Girl

Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen’s ex wife, is a mother again. The actress has just adopted a newborn baby girl, who has born in the US and has been named after Denise’s mother, it has emerged. Denise already has two children but, until now, she’s never spoken about her intention to adopt another chil...

30 June 2011
05:11 GMT

Steven and Roger Ham: 2 Gay Dads, 12 Children, 1 Story of Love

For many couples, one or two children are more than enough. For Steven (42) and Roger Ham (47), two gay men from Arizona, it takes twelve of them to make a close-knit family, all of them adopted from foster care, as the video below will show. The two men have come to media attention with their unique and admirabl...

6 May 2011
16:01 GMT

Angelina Jolie’s New Tattoo Sparks Adoption Rumors

Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on her arm made of six lines, which represent coordinates for where her and Brad Pitt’s children were adopted or where they were born. She’s added a seventh line, prompting talk she’s adopting again.The star is now working as an UN ambassador visiting several countries in...

6 April 2011
08:52 GMT

US Twitter Awareness on the Rise, Actual Usage Stalling

It's official: nearly all of the United States inhabitants have heard of Twitter and have been informed of its features, but only eight percent of them are actively using the service.A new report published by Edison Research/Arbitron has showed that as much as 92 percent of all Americans are familiar to the mic...

10 March 2011
01:56 GMT

Jennifer Aniston Adopting Baby from Mexico, Says Report

Star magazine has another adoption story cover for this week’s issue. This time, with Jennifer Aniston, who has reportedly decided she wanted to adopt a baby from Mexico. From what one can make from the cover photo, which is the only thing from the issue available online right now, it would seem that Aniston is...

27 January 2011
06:44 GMT

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Say No More Children for Now

After the birth of their twins, rumors started to circulate again about whether Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt would adopt another child, thus expanding their brood even more. For the time being, they’re good with 6 children, Jolie says.The stunning actress will be seen next opposite Johnny Depp in “The Tou...

4 December 2010
07:17 GMT

Divorce Is Not Stopping Eva Longoria from Adopting

Amidst speculation that soon-to-be-ex Tony Parker cheated on Eva Longoria with at least 7 women, comes a report suggesting that the diminutive television star is set on going forward with divorce proceedings just like Sandra Bullock also did. As we also reported at the time, Eva filed for divorce from Tony just recen...

28 November 2010
06:07 GMT

Sheryl Crow Adopts Another Baby Boy

Singer Sheryl Crow is not exactly known for making public announcements on matters pertaining to her personal life but this time is a wonderful exception. Crow has broken her silence to announce on her personal webpage that she’s become a mother again, having just adopted another baby boy named Levi, People mag...

5 June 2010
05:57 GMT

Sandra Bullock in People Magazine: Honest and Wonderful

The print issue of People magazine, the one carrying a 10-page piece on Sandra Bullock, including a gorgeous pictorial of her and her newly adopted son Louis, is out. In the interview, already described as among the most heartwarming and honest interviews a star has ever given, the Oscar-winning actress talks adoptio...

30 April 2010
10:37 GMT

Sandra Bullock Reveals Adopted Son, Confirms Divorce

It’s been weeks that Michelle McGee went to the media to tell of her affair with Jesse James, Sandra Bullock’s husband, and since the Oscar-winning actress went into hiding. In the latest issue of People magazine, she finally breaks her silence to make a shocking revelation: she has an adopted son and wil...

28 April 2010
08:41 GMT

Smartphones Help US Mobile Gaming Market Increase

On Wednesday, comScore, Inc. unveiled the results of a new study on mobile gaming, showing that the market has a great potential, even if the number of U.S. mobile gamers decreased last year. According to the company, the decline was driven by a 35 percent decrease of mobile gaming on feature phones, which account f...

15 April 2010
04:57 GMT

Windows 7 Lessons from Early Adopters

No less than 66% of companies plan to upgrade to Windows 7, albeit later rather than sooner, according to an October 2009 survey from Forrester Research, titled Windows 7 Commercial Adoption Outlook. But the latest Windows client from Microsoft is already the fastest selling operating system in history, having alread...

4 March 2010
09:11 GMT

We’re Not Adopting from Haiti, Angelina Jolie Says

Angelina Jolie was recently in Haiti, where she became involved with organizations offering relief to the victims of the current earthquake. Speaking with CNN in an interview that will air this Sunday, the actress dispelled rumors of looking for a baby to adopt, stressing that the time was not right for this, but for...

13 February 2010
05:53 GMT

VoIP to Reach 79% of US Businesses by 2013

A recently published report from the research firm In-Stat shows that one of the technologies that should see a great boost within the following few years is VoIP, especially when it comes to US businesses. According to the report, VoIP is expected to reach around 79 percent of the businesses in the United States by...

2 February 2010
16:41 GMT

Chimpanzees Adopt Orphans

For a long time, theologists and some anthropologists have been arguing that a host of elements makes humans unique and different from animals. But, over the past decades, all of these so-called differences have been collapsing one by one. It has been recently proven that chimpanzees can be altruistic as well, to the...

27 January 2010
05:01 GMT

GPS Smartphones to See 34% Growth This Year

A recently published research from Strategy Analytics shows that the shipments of smartphones that include GPS capabilities will grow by 34 percent during the ongoing year all around the world. For comparison, last year, the shipments reached 57 million units, while estimations point towards a number of 77 million th...

30 July 2009
06:22 GMT

Morbidly Obese Woman Adopts After Massive Weight Loss

A British woman with serious fertility issues, Melanie King, was told she was too fat to adopt when she and her husband, Jason, wanted to initiate the procedures to have a baby. Morbidly obese because of several health complications, King decided to lose all the extra weight with the all-liquid, severe Cambridge diet...

22 July 2009
15:51 GMT

Adoption Agencies Call for Boycott of Horror Film ‘Orphan’

US adoption agencies usually have very diverging stands on most aspects, but, as far as the new Warner Bros. horror film is concerned, they finally do feel the same. “Orphan,” the story of a little adopted girl with a “secret,” has managed to enrage most adoption agencies and groups that have ...

20 July 2009
10:58 GMT

40% of Businesses Will Say 'Yes' to Windows 7 by the End of 2010

Windows Vista failed to gain traction with business users, and its successor will not be spared a similar fate, according to a survey put together by ScriptLogic. Even with corporations having skipped Vista altogether, plans to crowd to the next iteration of Windows in order to migrate their IT infrastructure are not...

13 July 2009
07:58 GMT

Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson to Adopt

This September, gorgeous Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds celebrate their 1-year marriage anniversary. While they have never publicly addressed the issue of having children, Ryan tells UK Glamour magazine adoption is in the cards for the future, since his brother was also adopted and this is som...

10 July 2009
08:52 GMT

Madonna Adoption of Malawian Girl Greenlit

Madonna might yet get to expand her already large brood by flying to the US Mercy, the little orphan girl from Malawi for whose adoption she initiated papers a while back. If, in April, her request was denied on the grounds that it might encourage child trafficking, The Sun claims she has convinced three of the judge...

10 June 2009
03:00 GMT

Nicole Kidman to Adopt Vietnamese Boy

Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban have a gorgeous baby girl, Sunday Rose, who turns one next month. Already the picture perfect happy family, Keith and the Australian actress are also considering adopting a baby boy from Vietnam, thus expanding their family and offer a less fortunate child the chance for a better...

2 June 2009
09:20 GMT

Angelina Jolie Says Madonna Only Adopts for Publicity, Fame

Speculation that Madonna and screen siren Angelina Jolie were not seeing eye to eye first began when the singer talked to the media about adopting Malawian baby boy David Banda and made some not too subtle negative references to Angelina. Now, the actress is reportedly telling friends that Madonna only adopts for pub...

23 May 2009
06:03 GMT

Slumdog Father Denies Trying to Sell Rubina Ali

The children who appeared in the Oscar-laden “Slumdog Millionaire” continue to live in poverty, although trust funds have already been set up for them by director Danny Boyle. Still, the money is not enough for their families to leave the slums and lead a decent life, but that does not mean that they woul...

21 April 2009
03:28 GMT

Madonna Adoption Banned on Child Trafficking Grounds

More than a handful of celebrities have jumped on the adoption bandwagon, turning to impoverished countries for the future members of their family. One such celebrity is also Madonna who, over the past days, has been in Malawi in view of leaving for the US with a three-year-old girl named Mercy. According to The Asso...

3 April 2009
11:39 GMT

Madonna Heads to Malawi to Adopt Baby Girl

Just like she did when she adopted little David Banda in 2006, Madonna is moving fast this time as well, when she’s heading to Malawi to take home a baby girl. Although the singer herself confirmed that she was thinking about adopting another child a little over a week ago, officials in Malawi are saying that t...

27 March 2009
09:49 GMT

Michael Jackson Makes Plans to Adopt from Britain

As Michael Jackson is now on route to the greatest comeback in the history of music, talk of his personal life is also becoming more intense. While last week word had it that he was planning on getting more plastic surgery in preparation for “This Is It,” now he’s reportedly taking the first legal s...

25 March 2009
10:14 GMT

Madonna Confirms She Wants to Adopt from Malawi

In the aftermath of the much-mediated divorce from husband Guy Ritchie, Madonna is not spending time moping around or letting it ruin her plans for future additions to the family. As a matter of fact, she is already considering adopting another child from Malawi, the birth place of David Banda, the little boy the sin...

17 March 2009
10:23 GMT

First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Might Adopt

A little over a year after marrying French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former model Carla Bruni is speaking about her desire to have more children, in the latest issue of Le Figaro newspaper. If nature will no longer allow her to have a child with Sarkozy, then adoption is also an option, Bruni says, adding that perha...

5 March 2009
07:23 GMT

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher to Adopt a Baby

Even if, when they first announced that they were an item, many said of Demi and Ashton’s relationship that it wouldn’t last, they made it through six years together and three of marriage. Now, it is being said, the two are looking to adopt a baby, since fertility treatments have not paid off, according t...

30 January 2009
11:37 GMT

Brangelina to Adopt from Africa Again

Rumors on Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt considering adoption again do surface every now and then, with almost clock-like precision. It is that time of the year again, as word in the media has it that the famous actors are thinking, and have even made some preliminary moves, to adopt another child from Ethiopia.One sou...

8 January 2009
12:19 GMT

Jennifer Aniston Pulls an Angelina

Jennifer Aniston has probably had enough of cliches to last her a lifetime. Ever since her very notorious split from ex husband Brad Pitt, the actress has been painted either as Brad Pitt's jilted wife crying her eyes out over his framed photo every night before falling asleep, or as Angelina Jolie's worst ...

4 April 2008
10:31 GMT

Microsoft Confirms Vista Adoption at 2%

At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed back on January 6, that Windows Vista had an install base of over 100 million users worldwide. The Redmond company came back with the 100 million Vistas milestone on the operating system's first year annivers...

4 February 2008
05:08 GMT

Windows Vista Simply Can't Catch a Break - Maybe with SP1

At over one year since Windows Vista was released to manufacturing and after it shipped to businesses in November 2006, and at almost 12 months since the operating system hit the shelves, it simply cannot catch a break. The last statistics related to the market performance of the latest Windows client to come out of ...

14 December 2007
10:21 GMT

Angelina to Adopt - AGAIN

It's a fact - Brad Pitt never talks shit. I mean, over the years it turned out that whatever he said, it was worth looking into - and in the Hollywood wild, wild world it's rather a treat to be served with serious, earnest comments rather than the usual flamboyant but 90% exaggerated mash-up we get every ot...

24 September 2007
04:32 GMT

Brace Yourselves - Paris Hilton to Adopt Four Girls

I'm telling you, it's time we all ran for cover. Or, better yet, time for us to put all our savings together, find a good (and possibly a little crazy) rocket scientist, ask him to build us a space ship big enough to support life for a hundred years and just take off into space in search of a better planet ...

13 September 2007
08:10 GMT

Linux, Mac OS X Move Over, Microsoft Wants Vista to Be the Most Broadly Adopted OS

Microsoft has big plans for Windows Vista. Well big plans is actually an understatement. Microsoft wants Windows Vista to be the most broadly adopted operating system in history. And the Redmond Company is looking to spare no expense or effort in order to achieve this goal. The Microsoft plans were revealed by Micro...

28 March 2007
10:03 GMT


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