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The new innovation from iphones. The number of registered users on the Android operating system has surpassed iPhone users in eight states, with seven of them coming from West and Midwest states including: Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. We are particularly excited to track the trending growth of Android, and to that end, we will publish this map quarterly in order to see which states, and regions, turn Android over the course of 2010.

Also in this month’s installment of the BoomBox Report, we’ll be doing our best Jacques Cousteau (of sorts), free-diving into the digital depths, and exploring the taxonomy of Android handsets. We’ll be reporting back on an interesting variety of data points from across the range of all Android devices seen by Myxer. Through examining user preferences, such as: gender mix, age breakdown, and average monthly downloads per user, we believe we’ll attain a better understanding of not only the overall Android operating system, but also the individual phones which operate on the platform.

In the Hollywood news. This is where the Stars are immortalized with a star on the sidewalk in their honor. The Hollywood Walk of Fame lines both sides of Hollywood Boulevard from Gower to La Brea, and both sides of Vine Street, from Yucca to Sunset.
History of The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 by southern Californian artist Oliver Weismuller, who was hired by the city to give Hollywood a “face lift”. Many honorees received multiple stars during the initial phase of installation for contributions to separate categories; however, the practice in recent decades has been to honor individuals not yet represented, with only a handful of previous honorees being awarded additional stars. In 1978, the City of Los Angeles designated the Walk of Fame as a Cultural/Historic Landmark. The Walk of Fame began with 2,500 blank stars. A total of 1,558 stars were awarded during its first sixteen months. Since then, about two stars have been added per month. By 2005, more than 2,400 of the original stars were filled, and additional stars extended the Walk west past Sycamore to La Brea Avenue, where it now starts/ends at the Silver Four Ladies of Hollywood Gazebo, (with stars honoring The Beatles and Elvis Presley).
Maintenance
The Walk of Fame is maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. In order for a person to get a star on the Walk of Fame, he or she must agree to attend a presentation ceremony within five years of selection, and a $25,000 fee must be paid to the Trust for costs such as security at the star ceremony; a 2003 FOX News story noted that the fee is typically paid by sponsors such as movie studios and record companies, as part of the publicity for a release with which the honoree is involved. On other occasions, the fee is paid by a fan club or the nominating person or organization.
Stolen stars
There have been four stars stolen from the Walk of Fame. The stars of Jimmy Stewart and Kirk Douglas, which had been removed during a construction project, were stolen from the site on Vine Street. The culprit was a contractor who was later caught with the two damaged and unusable stars, but not until after they had been replaced. One of Gene Autry’s stars was also taken from another construction project. That star was found in Iowa. On November 27, 2005, thieves sawed Gregory Peck’s star out of the sidewalk near Gower. Cameras are now being placed on the walk district to catch thieves.

Christina Aguilera will return to the stage this summer, when she kicks off a 20-date North American outing on July 15, tour producer Live Nation announced today (May 10). Leona Lewis, the British pop singer, will also appear on the dates.

Aguilera's latest album, "Bionic," her first since 2006' "Back to Basics," is due in stores on June 8, and all fans who purchase tickets for the tour before June 4 will receive a download code for a digital copy the album on June 7, the day before its official release.

Tickets for all the dates go on sale to the public beginning May 21 at LiveNation.com, with a presale for Citibank cardmembers starting May 19. Complete ticket and tour information can be found at ChristinaAguilera.com.

Aguilera recently appeared on the "Oprah" show, and has scheduled a number of television appearances -- including live appearances at the MTV Movie Awards and on the Today Show Summer Concert Series -- in conjunction with the album's release.

Recorded in Aguilera's home studio, "Bionic" features collaborations with Sia, Le Tigre, Christopher "Tricky Stewart," Hill & Switch and Ladytron, and a ballad entitled "Lift Me Up" written  by Linda Perry, who also penned "Back to Basics" singles "Hurt" and "Candyman" and Aguilera's 2002 hit, "Beautiful."


Aguilera also recently wrapped filming on "Burlesque," which co-stars fellow pop diva Cher and is slated for a fall 2010 release.

Maxwell says that his upcoming tour with Jill Scott is "my dream come true, basically."

The two R&B singers kick off a 20-show run on May 21 in Cleveland. Maxwell will close each night, but he tells Billboard.com that he's hoping he and Scott will collaborate at some point during the night. "I would love to. I think it would be great," Maxwell says. "I think it would be great to create something special like that because she's just so good, you know? It's two different shows; she's got her own look and her own thing she's doing visually and stagewise, and I have my own thing. But hopefully we'll be able to overlap the show, somehow. I think people deserve that, something special like that."

Kelly Clarkson has penned a new song in response to her ongoing feud with her label, RCA/Sony Music, and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder.

The recently-leaked track, "Wash, Rinse, Repeat," allegedly addresses the controversy surrounding Clarkson's 2009 single, "Already Gone." Last summer, "Already Gone" came under fire for its similarities to Beyoncé's "Halo," which was released nearly 8 months prior to Clarkson's single.