Katie Holmes to keep 'millions in jewelry and gifts'

Katie Holmes gets to cash in on her marriage by keeping millions of dollars in jewelry and gifts given to her by her ex-husband Tom Cruise, says a source.

Following reports of a stingy payout from Cruise, RadarOnline’s source claims that “Tom was extremely generous to Katie with lavish gifts during their marriage and she will be keeping millions of dollars of jewelry, Hermes handbags and other luxurious items."

"Tom gave Katie diamond earrings as a birthday gift one year that easily cost over $500k and he had custom design pieces made for her," says the source. "Under terms of the divorce, Katie is keeping all of the jewelry, handbags, accessories, and designer clothing."

The source continues that for the time being, the jewels are being kept in a safe place and will likely be given to their daughter Suri once she is old enough.

The “Dawson’s Creek” actress was reportedly uninterested in Cruise’s millions, wanting to settle her divorce quickly. “Suri has always been Katie's number one priority and concern. During the divorce settlement talks Katie just wanted to make sure that she and her daughter would be taken care of from a financial standpoint," the source added.

The “Mission Impossible” actor is allegedly paying Holmes $400,000 a year in child support for the next 12 years, or until Suri turns 18.

The total payout works out to $4.8 million, which is less than what Cruise makes in a single film.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Will Support All Devices: RIM

　　Beleaguered BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion disputed a report on tech blog Boy Genius Report, which stated the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) would be incompatible with the company’s latest line of smartphones and operating system software, BlackBerry 10. This would force businesses to require two servers to operate the latest BlackBerry devices as well as legacy devices.
　　RIM issued a statement saying BES 10 would support existing BlackBerry devices, including the company’s PlayBook tablet, and all new devices running on the BlackBerry 10 platform.
　　In a statement emailed to ZDnet, which picked up the erroneous report, RIM also took the opportunity to plug the platform. “BES 10 will be the ultimate management solution for all BlackBerry platform devices, as well as iOS and Android devices. BES 10 will launch simultaneously with the first BlackBerry 10 devices,” the statement read.
　　RIM recently released a free update to the BlackBerry 10 toolkit it first offered to developers at its BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Fla., in May. Most notably, the new toolkit features two key sets of APIs—an application invocation framework that will allow apps to interact with each other, and Push APIs that enable developers to send notifications and other content to devices running the new platform.
　　The company has a lot riding on BlackBerry 10, which will consist of an entirely new operating system and new devices, and which it says has received a “phenomenal” response from developers. RIM recently delayed the launch of the platform and devices until the first quarter of 2013.
　　RIM has struggled to hold onto market share as rivals like the Apple iPhone and Google Android-powered smartphones cut into its space. Competition has also increased due to the growing popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives, which allow company employees to use their personal devices in the workplace.
　　Despite denials from the company CEO, Thorsten Heins, that the company is in a death spiral, analysts have begun to speculate on who could step in and acquire the company if the new platform fails to halt a slide in market share.
　　One potential buyer could be Samsung, the world’s largest manufacturer of smartphones, according to investment firm Jefferies. The company's analysts said in a report that they believe Samsung walked away from earlier talks with RIM but is still considering a BlackBerry 10 licensing deal and that BlackBerry 10 was unlikely to meet RIM’s expectations.
　　“We see significant potential for [BlackBerry 10], and it certainly is a vast improvement over BB7,” the analysts, headed by equity analyst Peter Misek, wrote in an Aug. 7 report. “However, we believe it is highly unlikely that it will be an improvement over iOS 6 and about equal to Android 4.1. Therefore, we see little chance RIM can take share away from Apple with BB10.”

Samsung Galaxy S II 4G, Rush, and Array hit Boost Mobile

There’s a couple of Samsung phones coming to Boost Mobile in the 4G universe, the first being theSamsung Galaxy S II with Android 4.0 Ice Cram Sandwich and the second being the Galaxy Rush. There’s also the Samsung Array, a QWERTY keyboard device with a 2.0 megapixel camera and a 2.4-inch LCD display – that’s not quite a smartphone like the other two, but it’s ready for the carrier’s $45 Talk & Text Unlimited Plan anyway. The Galaxy S II is coming with Ice Cream Sandwich for the first time EVER as well – unless you’re a hacker, of course.

This release has the Array coming for $59.99, the Galaxy Rush will be popping up for $149.99, and the Samsung Galaxy S II will be available for the low, low price of $369.99 USD! Each of these prices are, of course, completely off-contract, the Galaxy S II being offered this way for the first time in the United States ever – with free shipping! The Galaxy S II will be coming out on September 6th, the Array on the 4th, and all will be available in late September at Boost retail locations.

This version of the Samsung Galaxy S II will be available in both white and black with a lovely 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, a dual-core Exynos processor clocked at 1.2GHz, and with 16GB internal memory. This device will be popping up with an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a 2 megapixel camera on the front – and the back will be able to film in 1080p – high definition!

The Samsung Galaxy Rush will be out with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, a 3 megapixel camera on the back, a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, and a no-contract $55 Android Monthly Unlimited plan with Shrinking Payments – cool deal!

KRIS HUMPHRIES' EX Kim K Is a 'CRUEL BITCH!'

Myla Sinanaj -- who will sit for a deposition in New York City today in the Kris Humphries/Kim Kardashian divorce -- says Kim is a "cruel bitch" by scheduling her depo on the 1 year anniversary of Kris and Kim's wedding.

 

TMZ has learned ... Myla is telling friends she will testify that Kris repeatedly told her Kim defrauded him in the marriage, grousing that he "got played."

Kris is fighting the divorce, insisting on an annulment based on fraud.  Kris claims Kim never loved him and married him only to spike ratings on her reality show.

Myla says Kris -- who made hundreds of thousands of dollars off "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" as well as the wedding special -- "hated the cameras and his life being on display."

Myla is telling friends her relationship with Kris is "dead," so she has nothing to lose by telling the truth, and therefore she will be "100% honest" in answering questions during the depo.

The wild card -- Myla is not saying how she will answer questions about allegedly getting knocked up by Kris.  She previously told various people he got her pregnant ... then recanted the story.

Trusteer Uncovers Malware Attack on Airport VPN

Trusteer researchers recently discovered a Man in the Browser (MitB) attack targeting VPN users at a major airport.

"Using the Citadel Trojan, criminals are targeting employees to steal their credentials for accessing internal airport applications," writes Trusteer CTO Amit Klein. "Trusteer has notified airport officials and the relevant government agencies of this attack. Due to the sensitive nature of these systems, the airport immediately disabled remote employee access through this VPN site -- the site is currently down."

"Man-in-the-middle attacks on airports' public networks are common, but this particular attack didn't target the public network or users but instead went after the airport's employees and their remote-access application," writesThreatpost's Dennis Fisher. "Getting access through any corporation's VPN system is a huge win for an attacker, because once she comes in as an authenticated user, she enjoys all of the access ad privileges on the network that the victimized user does."

"MitB malware is usually financially motivated," Infosecurity reports. "Its most common purpose is to steal bank credentials rather than VPN credentials. Infosecurity asked Trusteer for its thoughts on the motivation for this attack. 'The technology is MitB -- however the motivation is not necessarily financial,' said Oren Kedem, director of product marketing. He listed a range of possible targets, including access to the air traffic control system, and building infrastructure plans."

Patent Trial Turns to Damages

　　A closely watched patent battle between Apple Inc. AAPL +0.87%and Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE 0.00% turned to the money at stake, as the trial here entered its final days.
　　A lawyer for Samsung began the morning providing testimony and evidence designed to reduce the potential bill the company would face if the jury rules Samsung devices violated Apple patents.
　　Apple contends it is owed more than $2.5 billion in damages based on a host of Samsung devices infringing several of its patents. The amount could be adjusted if the jury finds that only some devices infringed some patents.
　　A damages expert for Samsung, Michael Wagner, argued that Apple's estimates—made by accountant Terry Musika, who testified earlier on Apple's behalf—were based on faulty Samsung profit estimates that ignored important costs. Those costs include the cost of marketing the phones, promoting them to carriers and research and development.
　　Mr. Wagner estimated that Samsung made $519 million in profits from the disputed phones since Apple filed its suit against Samsung in 2011. He also sought to prove that Apple "overstated" the profits it would have earned if the Samsung phones weren't available.
　　He cited research that suggested that customers wouldn't flock to Apple if the Samsung phones didn't exist. "The specific design at issue in this case isn't driving customers from Samsung to Apple," Mr. Wagner said.
　　Mr. Wagner also cited Apple's own supply constraints as a reason that the company couldn't have sold more iPhones or iPads even if the competing Samsung devices weren't on the market. He also disputed the prices Mr. Musika used to calculate damages, among other things.
　　On cross-examination, an Apple lawyer grilled Mr. Wagner on the difficulty of getting data from Samsung, which Mr. Wagner acknowledged, and the particulars of his math.
　　The accounting back and forth came as testimony in the patent trial is winding down, with closing arguments likely Tuesday.
　　In her continuing effort to expedite, Judge Lucy Koh began the day by asking both sides to try to narrow their case, yet again. "Now is the time," she said, encouraging "some horse trading."

'Major Crimes' premiere: Meet the new boss, different from the old boss

TNT might have done a little bit of a disservice to "Major Crimes" by opting to run its premiere immediately after the finale of "The Closer." 

Not ratings-wise -- in that sense, putting "Major Crimes" up after Brenda Leigh's swan songis probably the smartest decision TNT could have made. But creatively, a bit of a breath might have served the new show well.

Because even though "Major Crimes" actually manages pretty well to establish its own tone and rhythm in Monday's (Aug. 13) series premiere, it still has much of the same cast, some of the same sets -- heck, even the same style for its opening titles as "The Closer." All of that could make it easy to dismiss the show as "The Closer Minus Brenda," but that's not what's happening.

 

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For starters, the show has given itself the gift of building around a very different female character. Sharon Raydor is light-years ahead of Brenda in terms of political savvy, but after years of working under Brenda, Raydor's brand of leadership is not exactly welcome by the squad's holdovers. It's not hard to see why -- this is, after all, the woman who has been looking disapprovingly over their shoulders for the past couple years. 

The squad was initially skeptical of Brenda too, but that was because they didn't know her. Raydor has been an outsider by choice, not circumstance, and that could be pretty rich territory for the show to explore. 

It's also pretty evident that "Major Crimes" is going to be more of an ensemble show than its predecessor. Mary McDonnell isn't even on screen for a good portion of the premiere, and seeing characters like Provenza, Flynn and Sanchez get to open up a little more will help make the familiar seem a little fresher.

So the initial impression is a hopeful one for "Major Crimes," but it will probably take a while to get out from "The Closer's" shadow. What did you think of the premiere?

Taylor Swift Announces New Album Red In Fan Web Chat

After going it alone for her last album, “Speak Now,”Taylor Swift has turned to top songwriters and producers for her fourth studio album, “Red,” out Oct. 22.

Both Max Martin, best known for his work withBritney Spears and Pink, and Ed Sheeran, who has written hits for One Direction, as well as has his own solo career, collaborated with Swift on the new set, which she recorded over a two-year period.  Martin co-wrote first single, “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,” with Swift and Shellback. Swift debuted the stompy, up-tempo pop tune today during a YouTube chat with fans and it is already available on iTunes.

What’s not different from the last album, or the two before that, is that Swift turned to her diary pages to come up with the lyrics. “The songs are all pretty much about the tumultuous, intense...semi-toxic relationships I’ve had over the past two years,” she revealed during the chat  from Nashville.

Surrounded by fans who asked questions, Swift added that the album included 16 tracks for the standard edition out of a pool of “between 30-to-35 songs.”

“I tend to skew in the direction of writing about love-related things,” she said. “That’s kind of where I naturally go. I ended up being inspired by a lot of ‘zero-to-200, then hits a wall and then explodes relationships,’ which are so fun to write about. Really dysfunctional.”

She hastened to add that while some of the songs were personal, others were observational. When she’s writing a new album, everyone in her life “becomes a character or has the potential” to become one.

As to why she decided to co-write on this album after going solo on “Speak Now” (and collaborating with Liz Rose on the first two albums), Swift says, “I thought, why not call all my songwriting and producing heroes and see if they want to work together. I got the opportunity to work with some of my absolute favorite people in music.”

She didn’t offer any names, but the next question was about Sheeran and she coughed up that they ended up writing a song together “while sitting on a trampoline,” and recording it as a duet. 

As far as deciphering whom the songs are about, she promised that she would hide little codes in the lyrics, just as she did on “Speak Now.” However, she’s been much more private about her romances over the last two years, so there might be some big surprises. John Mayer can probably rest easy.

Swift was mum when asked about tour plans, but added that she will be in six different countries the week of release.

It looks like the focus for the foreseeable future will be music, and not movies. This spring, she was rumored to be up for the the part of Joni Mitchell in the film adaptation of Sheila Weiler’s book, “Girls Like Us,” but when asked specifically about acting, she did not mention that role and added that she would have to be so “obsessed” with a part that she  felt like she absolutely could not turn it down.

Click here to see the Grammy winner's YouTube chat. We've also embedded the new song, although it's pretty bad quality. We'll upload a better one when we can find one.