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Kate Winslet’s curves are proving popular – she’s topped a poll of the celebrity bodies women would most love to have. The shapely Titanic star ranked above British actress Kelly Brook and former Bond girl Halle Berry, who were at number two and three respectively in the survey by U.K. diet company Slimming World. Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole polled in fourth place, with Beyonce rounding out the top five. Other celebrities to reach the top ten include Smile hitmaker Lily Allen, actress Sienna Miller and supermodel Kate Moss.

Loved-up couple Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo promoted Nivea’s second annual charity kissing challenge on Good Day New York Wednesday morning.

To help celebrate and “Make 2010 A Year of Love, Hugs and Kisses,” Nick and Vanessa will host the NIVEA Kiss Platform live from Times Square tomorrow night, featuring a series of events to inspire people to LOVE…HUG…KISS in 2010. The skincare brand created an initiative to raise money and awareness for Big Brothers Big Sisters. This program runs through Valentine’s Day.

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Ah, Quebec. Beautiful women, beautiful city, fantastic food. But there is a dark side. No, not poutin and steamies. We’re talking about the language police! Answer your phone incorrectly, write something in English more than 50 percent the size of the equivalent French phrase or – worst of all – if you forget to bother with French at all, it’s off with your head an annoying fine. Joining the Québécois language police are a new group of cops – the tire police.

Basically, according to Wired, if you, a Quebec resident, drive between December 15 and March 15 on all-season tires, you get hit with a $300 fine. But what if you have all-wheel drive? Low gears and a transfer case? A Hummer H1? It doesn’t matter. No snow tires = a $300 lighter wallet within the province of Quebec.

There is a bit of rationale behind this law. Fully 90 percent of drivers in Quebec have historically fitted snow tires to their rides anyhow. And it is estimated that the 10 percent that doesn’t bother causes 38 percent of the winter accidents. Quite disproportionate, no? But really, this shouldn’t come as any shock. Snowy conditions require winter tires. If this does come as a shock to you, check our recent feature on winter tires. And… uh, stay out of Quebec if you’re still rollin’ on summer meats.

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Beyonce’s’ mother “gets a kick” out of reading gossip about her daughter. The ‘Sweet Dreams’ singer has revealed her mother Tina is obsessed with racy tabloid magazines, often buying up to 20 at a time while Beyonce stands next to her “praying” no one will see her.

The 28-year-old star said: “You know what? My mother loves to read celeb magazines, especially the racy tabloids! I can’t believe it sometimes. She’ll go to this magazine store in New York and buy 20 magazines while I’m standing next to her. I’m just praying nobody recognises me while my mom is stacking up those magazines! But she loves reading the gossip about celebs and movie stars. I tell her a lot of the stuff isn’t true, but she says she gets a kick out of reading all the nonsense that gets printed, even about me!”

Even though Tina likes to laugh about the false stories written about her daughter, Beyonce couldn’t cope without her, particularly when she is on tour. The star added: “My mom and my cousin are the leaders of my entourage. They’re with me to help me stay grounded and relax and avoid going out on the town, which is something I rarely do anyway.”

Television personalities Tim Gunn and Ellen DeGeneres are being honored this final week of 2009 for their devotion to the world’s furriest faces: the pair have been named Psychos People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals’ 2009 Man and Woman of the Year.

“Tim Gunn and Ellen DeGeneres show us that one person really can make a difference in the world by rejecting cruel deeds in favor of compassionate acts,” PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk said in a statement released on Wednesday. “Their message that animals must be treated kindly and respectfully has reached scores of people, and many of them have changed their buying habits, all because Gunn and DeGeneres spoke up for the voiceless.”

PETA praises vegan Ellen and has gone so far as to promote the lifestyle choice by inviting vegan experts like Jonathan Safran Foer and Dr. Neal Barnard on her Emmy-winning daytime talk show.

PETA compliments fashion guru and Project Runway adviser Gunn for being the creative director at fur-free fashion house Liz Claiborne. Tim was also praised for narrating PETA’s “Fashion Victims” video, which looks at the extreme practices of the fur and reptile skin trade.

The fashionisto launched a program at the Big Apple’s Parsons School of Design to allow PETA to come in and give presentations to design students about how animals are abused and killed for their fur.

“I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings,” Ellen noted on her website earlier this year.

Oprah Winfrey was previously honored as PETA’s Woman of the Year in 2008.

In our first post about trends in the enterprise for the coming year, we looked at five forces that will rise in importance in 2010.

In part two, we picked five more trends that we feel will have importance in the enterprise for the year ahead. The more we look at the space, the more we see how mobile looms over all of these trends. It will help shape IT spending in the years ahead as smart phones and other devices increasingly become part of daily work life.

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The use of API’s will come on strong in 2010 as more companies adopt web-oriented architectures that reflect the growing importance of using social technologies as communication and productivity applications.

For instance. you may know OpenSocial as a consumer-facing service for Google gadgets to integrate with Ning, MySpace and LinkedIn. But its true potential may be in the enterprise. Just before Christmas, OpenSocial announced it had written a white paper on a number of enterprise vendors. The paper lays the framework for an API infrastructure that customers may use for integrating Google gadgets. Companies participating in the effort include Atlassian, SocialText, CubeTree, Cisco, IBM, SAP, eXo Platform, Alfresco and of course, Google. Each of these enterprise vendors is integrating with OpenSocial to extend its products and for purposes of interoperability with other enterprise vendors.

We expect that in 2010 more companies will develop API road maps to push information out to customers. We’ll be watching companies like Sonoa Systems and Mashery as barometers for API adoption in the enterprise.

Web Oriented Architecture

The concept of web oriented architecture (WOA) first emerged a few years ago. Gartner’s Nick Gall developed the concept and it has since grown in scope. Dion Hinchliffe recently wrote a WOA “un-manifesto,” detailing the 17 principles that guide it. The future of WOA does not mean the end to service oriented architecture (SOA) but it does point to a shift in views about the way the Web works in the enterprise.

As he always does, Dion Hinchliffe accurately illustrates the concept:

WOA’s influence can’t be underestimated. Enterprise architects are looking to data-oriented services. Traditional SOA is still important to many organizations but the trends clearly point to the deeper availability of Web service components. And with this comes an increasing volume of applications that can be easily developed. Application architectures will be increasingly perceived as dynamic, configurable items, like pieces loosely joined.

Community Management

Social media has to be one of the most over-used phrases of the year but it should not reflect on the increasing need for community management practices within the enterprise. We expect community management to become an increasingly valued role. You only need to look as far as the proliferation of API’s to understand what is happening. As pieces of information spread to communities across the web, the need to create a stronger bond will only intensify. The idea being that as more communities engage, the need to service them will change. The processes for spreading and aggregating information will become further automated but people with communications and technical skills will be increasingly needed to keep the communities cohesive.

VoIP

VoIP will move deeper into the enterprise. The days of closed, siloed telephony systems are coming to an end. The freedom of web-based communications will be far more clear to the enterprise customer this year as the sheer volume of applications and features enter the market. Again, this trend in many ways stems from the move to WOA in the enterprise. The move is to the web. Voice will also heed the call.

A number of factors point to this trend. Google’s intentions to enter the enterprise are pretty clear. Google acquired Gizmo5, the web-based service for making calls from your computer or your mobile phone. This is a service that Google is expected to provide as a business service. Bandwidth.com recently unveiled its nationwide voice IP-network. Skype is making a play for the enterprise. Cisco and Skype have a partnership to offer Skype’s service to customers. Avaya is said to be close to a deal with Skype.

The signs are all there for VoIP to be a trend to watch next year.

The Big Sync

Finally, cloud computing will continue its pace as a trend to watch. But with it will come a battle that will leave some players bruised and battered. Microsoft has to be the most vulnerable. Joe Wilcox of Betanews makes an interesting point about this in a post about the need for Microsoft to do a better job in syncing mobile devices to the cloud.

Here’s why:

Syncing has real importance with the advent of the mobile enterprise. Take the Blackberry as an example and its ability to sync to your email. Now, we have applications that update all the time. Syncing is critical in order for these applications to work on your mobile device. Wilcox makes the point that Google seems to get this and has done a good job in providing the ability to sync on the mobile. Ironically, this is in large part thanks to Microsoft, which licensed its “ActiveSync,” technology to Google. Soon after, Google used ActiveSync in “its e-mail, calendar and contact synchronization from its cloud services to iPhone and Windows Mobile handsets,” writes Wilcox. “Google also used the technology to provide Exchange Server sync with Google Apps, so that businesses could use the hosted service instead of Outlook.”

Google has it right. Apple seems to get it. But Microsoft does not have a clear path for syncing updates across a wide network of applications to a mobile device connected to the cloud.

Conclusion

As we look deeper into trends, it’s evident that Google is getting a lot of attention. But the attention is deserved. Google took advantage of the recession to invest in research and development. Microsoft keeps promising big things but its direction is confusing.

How data is accessed and delivered is the name of the game in 2010. It’s a disadvantage to keep information in a silo. Monolithic applications and static documents will be less valued, replaced by a mobile enterprise fueled by web-based services.

We saw massive adoption of the social Web in 2009. Next year will be the year where WOA and mobile technologies become core parts of the infrastructure for the enterprise.

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The previously announced Paul McCartney DLC isn’t all that’s in store for Rock Band fans next week. Harmonix also has downloads lined up from blink-182 and The Ramones, as well as some tracks by The Psychedelic Furs that just scream 1980s.

Paul McCartney’s live track pack will go for $5.49 (440 Microsoft points), as will the three-pack of blink-182 songs. Single tracks will be available for the regular $1.99 (160 Microsoft points; 200 Wii Points) each.

The following DLC should hit the Xbox Live Marketplace and the Wii’s in-game music store next Tuesday, January 5. PlayStation 3 owners will find them that Thursday, January 7.

• “Band on the Run (Live)” by Paul McCartney *
• “Jet (Live)” by Paul McCartney *
• “Sing the Changes (Live)” by Paul McCartney *
• “Adam’s Song” by blink-182
• “First Date” by blink-182 *
• “I Miss You” by blink-182
• “Love My Way” by The Psychedelic Furs *
• “Sister Europe” by The Psychedelic Furs
• “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” by The Ramones *

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The third (and likely final) batch of 150 tickets to attend the Crunchies Awards are on sale now, courtesy of Eventbrite. Balcony seats are $45 (orchestra is sold out.)

If you’re dead set on an orchestra seat, please contact Jeanne Logozzo for sponsorship options. We have creative packages available in all shapes and sizes, such as champagne cocktails, card-game tables, demo tables, photo booths or walls, product giveaways and more.

Remember that voting is open through midnight PST, Wednesday, January 6. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote daily for their favorite people, products and companies of the year.

The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2009 and will be held at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm PST. Along with our co-hosts, GigaOm and VentureBeat, we will announce the winners from 18 different award categories live on stage from over 125 finalists.

Orchestra and balcony tickets include access to the after party hosted across the street in City Hall’s Grand Rotunda through midnight. There will be a sponsor-hosted bar, savory nibbles and desserts, music and a game room, featuring a mix of traditional and online games to play. Check out more party photos from 2008 and 2007.

Standing ovation to our Crunchies sponsors: after-party co-host Microsoft BizSpark, award benefactor Founders Fund, ustream.tv, specialty cocktail host Grey Goose Vodka, embargo-free beer host Lewis PR, SGN, Zong, DesignAboutTown, Future-Works, Eventbrite, Tap11, Outcast Communications, and Kosmix.

Hope to see you there.

FINALISTS: If you haven’t already, please contact us asap so we can get you set up with your two complimentary passes to attend.

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It’s been more than a year since NVIDIA announced its Ion platform, promising to bring HD video and gaming to the underpowered Atom CPU. After all the hold ups, we started to wonder if we’d ever see the platform packed inside a netbook, so imagine our surprise when no less than four Ion-based machines launched in the past few months. With bigger screens, better specs, more graphics muscle and, of course, the resulting higher price tag, each of these Ion machines promises quite a bit, but which one lives up to the hype? We got them all together and spent the past few weeks testing the ASUS Eee PC 1201N, Lenovo IdeaPad S12, HP Mini 311 and the Samsung N510 — follow on past the break for our complete faceoff.

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Bad news for alchemists who are in the business of transmuting lead into gold.

They made the wrong trade in 2009. It turns out, according to Bloomberg, that lead outperformed the shiny metal, having gained 145% compared to gold’s kind of pathetic 24% rise. That’s quite a big disparity when you consider, too, that the elements are just three protons apart.

And maybe alchemists should think twice before converting a useful element into something pretty.

(via John Lothian)

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We’ve covered robots from Japan-based robot developer and retail store Vstone a few times in the past. Reason enough for me (I live in Japan) to go and have a good look at Vstone’s flagship store in Akihabara, Tokyo’s electronic district, and make a few pics (the company itself is headquartered in Osaka).

The so-called VStone Robot Center is a mild disappointment though. It’s located in the heart of Akihabara, but it’s very small (probably somewhere between 80-100sqm).

There are quite a few robots, but not really as many as you’d expect from a “robot center”. And some of those robots aren’t even for sale. What you can see on the picture above is the Cam Baby, a really ugly mini robot.

What should be a dream for robot fans out there is the number of robot-related accessories. I didn’t even understand what most of the hundreds and hundreds of robot-related parts and components were good for.

Vstone also offered their very own Tetsujin 28 and Black OX robots (see picture below).

It’s not a robot paradise, but if you’re are a robot fanatic, you should check this place out. Vstone has a decent English page with a map.

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E-readers don’t always have to be stark slate’s of modern art and the Owen E1 E-Book is anything but. You just know by looking at it that it’s comfy to use and should fit into more pockets thanks to its rounded edges and smallish 5-inch screen. But it doesn’t matter, you probably won’t be able to buy it anytime soon.

So far this boy is set for a Chinese-release only and the pricing hasn’t been announced yet. But it shouldn’t be that expensive as it isn’t loaded up with every available e-reader option like the $349 Dulin’s Books Boox 60. The reader only shows 20 lines per page and 30 characters per line and can playback MP3, WMA, and OGG files. It’s not like you really don’t need a color screen and Wi-Fi anyway, right?

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DIRECTV said a new satellite launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this week will increase its in-orbit capacity for delivering high-definition TV content by 50 percent to more than 200 channels. Industry observers speculate that at least some of the channels will be used to deliver films in a high-definition 3-D format.

“With the successful launch of our DIRECTV 12 satellite, we will have the capacity to dramatically expand HD and movie choices for our customers and further extend our content and technology leadership,” said DIRECTV Chief Technology Officer Romulo Pontual.

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DIRECTV is not expected to comment further on its HDTV plans until next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where 3-D television is expected to emerge as the next big development in consumer electronics. Sony is already gearing up to bring the latest Hollywood 3-D blockbusters to home TV screens. Earlier this month, Sony announced a partnership with RealD — which closely participated in the development of successful 3-D films such as Avatar and Beowulf.

As part of the deal, Sony has licensed RealD’s immersive stereoscopic format, 3-D eyewear, and related technologies. “Sony has its proprietary LCD panel driving technology to reproduce full HD 3-D images on the screen of new Bravia LCD TVs, which will work in sync with new 3-D eyewear based on RealD’s technology,” said Sony Executive Deputy President Hiroshi Yoshioka.

In addition to Sony, JVC Kenwood, Mitsubishi, Philips and Samsung are among the companies developing consumer-oriented 3-D gear for home entertainment systems. Though these manufacturers have been thwarted by the lack of an effective 3-D delivery platform in the past, that’s about to change.

The Blu-ray Disc Association said earlier this month that it had finalized and released a new Blu-ray 3-D specification under which images will be sent to each eye at…

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Apple makes it clear: when applications rely on network connectivity, they must always test for a valid connection and report those results to the user. If the app cannot reach the Internet, the user needs to know. App Store reviewers regularly reject applications that do not test, and when a connection is not found, report that the network cannot be accessed.

Developers need to integrate this process into their apps. If your app connects to a server, for example, it must test the current iPhone configuration and report to the user whenever the network cannot be reached. Apple provides sample code to help with this.

iPhone developer Andrew Donoho was not particularly impressed by Apple’s sample reachability code. So he decided to do something about it. He has created an open source, BSD-licensed update, which he posted on his website. His updated reachability utilities fix a few Apple misspellings and tunes up the code, allowing you to revert to the original implementation via compiler flags.

You can easily download his update and integrate it into your iPhone applications. His write-up describes the testing process and offers an implementation process for successive network tests. You build your decision tree and user feedback off the results of each test. Donoho has provided this code to allow others to build off his work without having to re-invent the entire process from Apple’s original source.

If you’re interested in a slightly different take on reachability, you might also want to take a peek at my UIDevice Extension category, which provides a number of other approaches to Reachability checks. Among other features, the category includes a WiFi check and hooks that allow you to change reachability status from within your application. As noted in the code, these Airplane Mode hooks are for testing only and not App Store safe.

TUAWiPhone devsugar: Improved Network Reachability routines originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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‘Tis the season to shop until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the next few weeks we’ll be rounding up a dozen daily deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this handy summary. Keep in mind that while our posts will live on, the deals won’t. Each is lovingly generated by the deal-bot every day, so get ‘em while they’re hot. Enjoy!

• Geeks.com: [Computer] Geeks.com End-of-Year Liquidation: Up to 90% off
• Other World Computing: [Store Events] OWC Holiday Sale: Accessories, HDDs, RAM, LCDs, more
• ExperCom: [Computer Services] AppleCare deals at ExperCom: Mac mini for $104, MacBook for $174, more
• iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] Wild West Pinball for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free, more
• Apple Store: [MacBook] Refurbished Apple MacBook 13″ Laptops from $849 + free shipping
• iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Harry Potter: Spells, Super Monkey Ball, more (updated)
• CompUSA: [] Samsung Sound Bar / Subwoofer Speaker System for $200 + free shipping
• ExperCom: [iMac] Apple iMac Core i7 2.8GHz 27″ with 8GB RAM for $2,273 + $22 s&h, more
• InvisibleShield: [iPhone] ZAGG.com sale: Buy one ZAGGSkin, get a second one for free
• ThingFling: [Cell Phone Accessories] Duracell PowerSource Mini for $16 + $6 s&h
• Tanga: [Magazines] 1-Year Subscription to Muscle & Fitness Magazine for $3
• PC Micro Store: [iPod Accessories] PC Micro Store coupon: 50% off iPod touch accessories

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Here’s the skinny: Ford’s current Escape is heading the way of the dodo bird. In its place will be the Kuga, a much less dowdy looking compact CUV that should compete nicely with the likes of the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Hyundai Tucson. The European designed 2011 Kuga will be built here in the United States at a Louisville, Kentucky plant. All this we already know and have known for some time now.

What we don’t know is what Ford will call the Kuga when it goes on sale here in 2011. Kuga is obviously one option, but so, apparently, is Escape. According to Wards Auto, Ford’s domestic dealers are pushing for Escape. “I believe the Escape is a great vehicle with a great reputation and that it would be a big mistake to kill the Escape name,” says one San Diego based dealer.

Others point back to Ford’s decision to drop the Taurus name in favor of Five Hundred – part of the brand’s strange decision to make all cars start with the letter “F” (Focus, Fusion, Five Hundred – though the Mustang never became Fustang) and all SUVs and crossovers start with the letter “E” (Edge, Escape, Explorer, Expedition, Excursion). Though, of course, reverting back to Five Hundred was supposed to drum up some long lost brand equity/nostalgia, which is the first thing CEO Alan Mulally did when he changed Five Hundred back to Taurus. Very complicated stuff, no?

So, Kuga or Escape? While there are many good arguments for Escape, here’s one for Kuga – Ford’s One World strategy. Simply put, rather than having one Focus for Europe and one for North America, Ford is working toward offering one global vehicle per a given segment – and that’s it. And naming one car one thing for one market and one car another for another is essentially a monkey wrench in the plan. What should Ford do, and more importantly what will they do? Place your vote in our poll below and leave any further thoughts in Comments.

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Windows Mobile is very well known for its wide variety of User Interface like Sense and Panels, well MS wants to put and end to that. The news comes from German site Teltarif.de (via MSMobiles) and they say that Windows Mobile 7 will bring a very unwanted end to User Interfaces that manufactures like HTC and SE add to personalize the device.

There is an alternative to this story, MSmobiles is also speculating that MS might be developing  two versions of WM7. The first version will consist of all MS settings, the so-called "Microsoft experience", and their own UI(which must be killer if they are doing this) and the second version will not have their UI, but whatever UI companies add on themselves.

I have mixed thoughts about "forbidding of 3rd party user interfaces in Windows Mobile 7", it could be a good sign that Microsoft is very confident about what they have come up with and they want everyone to use it and bring back some respect to their UI name. I also think it is a bad idea because not everyone likes the same things, and if we are all stuck with one thing, then that would not be very interesting, because multiple UI’s simultaneously is what really sets us apart from Android, iPhone and just about every single OS out their. This is big, but lets just say “XDA get your knifes and pans ready, you might have some cooking to do.”

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The year 2009 has almost come to an end and what a year it has been for Beyonce.  She topped the music charts and movie charts, completed her biggest worldwide tour so far and won every major award there was to win.  Her ‘legend in the making’ status only got bigger and bigger during the past year. Here are some of the highlights of 2009!

January:
Single Ladies notches up a fourth non-consecutive week at number one
Beyonce performs twice during president Obama’s inauguration weekend

February:
Beyonce performs during a fundraising dinner to pay tribute to screen stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Courteney Cox.
Beyonce wins the award for ‘Outstanding Female Artist’ at the NAACP Image Awards and gave us a performance of Halo.
Diva catapulted straight to the top of the R&B/Hip Hop Songs tally
Beyonce performs ‘The Musical Is Back’ with Hugh Jackman at the Oscars

March:
Cadillac Records is beeing released on DVD.
New ads from L’Oreal, Samantha Thavasa, Crystal Geyser and Nintendo appear online
Beyonce manages to get on the biggest cover in the world…VOQUE
Halo enters the UK top 10 chart
The I Am… Tour kicks off in Edmonton
Beyonce wins favorite Song for Single Ladies at the 2009 Kids Choice Awards

April:
Beyonce is lending her voice to Nickelodeon’s animated kids’ show, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
Beyonce is named as one of Vanity Fair’s Most Beautiful Women of the world
100 Single Ladies stop traffic in London with a performance of Beyonce’s Single Ladies
A promo tour has been organized including visits on the Today Show, The Late Show and The View.
Obsessed opens up at number 1, racking up $28.5 million.

May:
Beyonce continues her I Am… world tour, making various appearances all over Europe
Beyonce graces the covers of various magazines, inclusing Glamour & Self
The video for Ego has it’s world premiere on Beyonce’s official site

June:
Beyonce is spotted riding a bike (!) in Dublin, Ireland (it ís a big deal!)
Beyonce wins the Dutch ‘Glamour’ award for favourite beauty personality
George Michael joins Beyonce on stage to perform If I Were A Boy
The release of Above and Beyoncé: Video Collection & Dance Remixes
The video for Broken-Hearted Girl has it’s release on the internet
Beyonce kicks off the Show Your Helping Hand campaign
Beyonce performs Ave Maria at the BET Awards and wins two awards

July:
The Sweet Dreams video premieres on msn.com
Beyonce performs during the Essence Music Festival
Beyonce is announced as the best-paid celebrity under 30
The four night stint at Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theatre kicks off

August:
Beyonce leads the VMA nominations with a total of nine
Sweet Dreams climbs into the top five in the UK
Beyonce is a guest Star on America’s Best Dance Crew
Beyonce wins two awards at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards
The DVD for obsessed tops the rental chart
I Am… Sasha Fierce reaches a new peak position in the UK (#2)

September:
Celebrities and fans get together to wish Beyonce a happy birthday!
Beyonce becomes the fifth female in Hot 100 history to place six songs from one album within the top 40.
Beyonce performs DIVA at the ‘Answer the Call’ concert
Beyonce performs at the VMA’s and wins three awards, including Video of The Year
Beyonce is named as one of People’s 10 Best Dressed Women of the Year
Beyonce wins two awards at the 2009 Mobo Awards

October:
The I Am… tour pulls in over $53.5 million
Single Ladies features in the Alvin & The Chipmunks movie
Beyonce receives Billboard’s Woman of the Year award

November:
Beyonce wins three awards at the 2009 Soul Train Awards
Beyonce performs Sweet Dreams at the EMA’s and wins 3 awards
Beyonce teams up with Lady Gaga for Video Phone

December:
Alicia Keys and Beyonce join forces and release their first duet
Beyonce scores ten Grammy nominations
Beyonce is Billboard’s female artist of the decade
Rolling Stone calls Beyonce the queen of pop