Leaked HTC Vigor Media Files Help Confirm Specs, Clear-Up Rumors

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Our understanding of the HTC Vigor had been shaping-up nicely as of last week; rumors, information gleamed from its FCC paperwork, and the press shots we uncovered were starting to paint a complete picture of the handset. Then we were introduced to a purportedly leaked Verizon screenshot, indicating that the phone would become the Droid Incredible HD, instead, and cast doubt on the phone's supposedly-720p display. Today a host of media files for the Vigor has been distributed online, and there are a few tidbits inside that may help clear up this confusion.

For one, there's the inclusion of wallpaper images at 1440 x 1280, or exactly two 720p screens - not something we'd expect added to a phone with only a WVGA display. That gives us some peace of mind, since we're really excited about all the 720p displays that are about to hit the smartphone market. The phone's LTE capabilities were essentially a lock, having been confirmed in FCC documentation, but a boot logo here also confirms the feature, along with the Beats audio partnership.

Furthermore, the boot animations don't reinforce the idea that the Vigor could arrive as the Droid Incredible HD, without the appearance of an iconic Droid "red eye".

You can check out all the files yourself by following the source link below.

Source: Android Police
Via: Electronista

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Gawker Files Suit, and News of a Dinner is Shared

In apparent reaction to a lawsuit filed by Gawker and the American Civil Liberties Union, the office of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, on Monday released a record of a meeting last year between Mr. Christie and Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News Channel.

John Cook, a reporter for Gawker, had filed the suit to inquire into Mr. Ailes’s relationship with Mr. Christie as part of a series of stories about the political engagement of Mr. Ailes and his cable news channel. He asserted in an interview that Mr. Ailes, a former Republican strategist, continued to act in that capacity informally and behind the scenes.

The suit came about after Mr. Christie’s office resisted Mr. Cook’s request for public records of any meetings, phone calls or correspondence between the governor and Mr. Ailes. The governor’s office cited “executive privilege,” which Mr. Cook found to be unusual given that Mr. Ailes is the head of a news channel.

The suit was filed Monday morning. Within hours, Mr. Christie’s office sent Mr. Cook a letter that reaffirmed the “executive privilege” defense, but shared the schedule record of one dinner Mr. Christie and Mr. Ailes had on Sept. 11, 2010.

That dinner had previously been reported by New York magazine, which also reported that Mr. Ailes had, at a later date, encouraged Mr. Christie to run for president.

“It’s a mystery why they would invoke executive privilege to conceal such an innocuous document,” Mr. Cook said Monday. He said that the A.C.L.U. would ask the governor’s office to certify in court that it had no other records of communication between the two men. “If they do, we’ll drop the complaint,” he said.

A representative for the New Jersey chapter of the A.C.L.U. did not respond to a request for comment, nor did a representative for Mr. Ailes.

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European Group Files Suit Against LimeWire

An organization representing independent record labels has filed a $5 million lawsuit against LimeWire, the defunct file-sharing network, for breach of contract.

In its suit, Merlin, a European group that works with more than 12,000 labels around the world, said that LimeWire had failed to make good on an agreement to pay its member labels a settlement comparable to the $105 million it agreed in May to pay the major record labels. The labels had won the settlement in  a lawsuit filed against LimeWire in 2006 for large-scale copyright infringement on LimeWire’s peer-to-peer network.

Merlin was created in 2008 and was not a party to the major labels’ original suit. But in its suit, filed on Wednesday in United States District Court in Manhattan, Merlin said that in 2009 and 2010, LimeWire had signed agreements promising that if a settlement was reached with the majors, Merlin would be offered a settlement on the same terms.

A lawyer for LimeWire and its founder, Mark Gorton, did not respond to a phone call requesting comment.

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