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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Engadget HD Podcast 304 - 06.19.2012

Rumors that Microsoft's plans for its next console could turn it into a Blu-ray and whole-home DVR super set-top box lead off a console-heavy into to this week's podcast, as we also check out the new Paramount Movies app and Netflix for the Wii U. If speed is what you're about, Verizon just raised its limits (and its prices), while the DOJ is looking into cable vs. online video -- we'll let you know when to get excited. We also have a heads up on where to catch the new Dolby Atmos audio technology, and a peek into the future with TiVo/Paypal and Dish.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh (@bjdraw), Richard Lawler (@rjcc)

Producer: Trent Wolbe

00:05:25 - Alleged Xbox 720 document leak resurfaces, stirs rumors of Kinect 2, native 3D, AR glasses
00:12:55 - Paramount Movies Ultraviolet app released for Xbox 360
00:16:48 - Netflix app for the Nintendo Wii U, pictured
00:20:00 - Amazon Prime Instant Video gets MGM Studios movies and TV shows, dances with a few wolves
00:21:47 - Sharp launches 'world's largest' 90-inch LED AQUOS TV, we go hands-on
00:25:20 - Verizon intros FiOS Quantum, officially priced up to 300Mbps
00:32:25 - Time Warner Cable starts rolling out lightly refreshed guide with new color scheme, cloud VOD search
00:35:05 - DOJ looking into whether Comcast, other TV giants are unfairly (knee)capping Hulu, Netflix
00:38:33 - Dolby confirms 14 theaters for inaugural screening of Pixar's 'Brave' with Atmos audio
00:41:33 - Google TV team focuses on third party content, second screen apps as I/O approaches
00:43:45 - ConnecTV officially launches, gives you more ways to bug your buddies
00:47:52 - TiVo and PayPal let you buy stuff using your remote, hopes you swing past the shopping channel
00:50:41 - Dish Network, Qualcomm team up on Snapdragon S4 chips for hybrid satellite / cellular mobiles
00:52:03 - Must See HDTV (June 18th - 24th)

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Chris Brown/Drake Nightclub Brawl: More Victims Emerge

Brown slams media coverage of the incident, tweeting, 'TMZ, ya'll full of s---!'
By Gil Kaufman

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The list of alleged victims in the aftermath of last week's bottle-smashing brawl  between members of Chris Brown and Drake's crews at a New York nightclub increased by two over the weekend as the police investigation into the scuffle got sidetracked into reports that a shot was fired inside club W.i.P. during the fight.

In addition to Brown, who posted a photo of his split chin, as well as the singer's bodyguard, who sustained a head injury, NBA star Tony Parker and Australian tourist Hollie C., two more people have come forward to say they were also injured in the melee. 21-year-old model Ingrid Gutierrez's lawyer, Sal Strazzullo, spoke to E! News about what happened to his client early Thursday morning as she chilled out at Brown's table.

"[Ingrid] was with Chris Brown and his entourage just having a good time...she was at his table...right next to him when this occurred," he said. "She was just having a good time, a 21-year-old out, a young lady at a nightclub in Manhattan and all of a sudden a bottle came from [the direction of] the Drake table." Strazzullo said his client has informed him that a note was passed from Drake to Brown "in regards to something with Rihanna," but that he could not reveal the details of that alleged note because he can't verify the authenticity of its contents.

"Then ... Chris Brown was about to get up and leave with his entourage and that's when a bottle came from [the direction of] Drake's table to Chris Brown's table." The model reportedly suffered a blow to the head and is out of the hospital and resting after sustaining bruises, stitches and trauma to her face, with Strazzullo suggesting that "plastic surgery is probably likely."

Perhaps hinting that legal action could be on the horizon, he added, "basically like any model ... your looks are everything and with today's technology, with HD, a small scar, even though this one is not small, is going to be magnified to look really severe." The attorney also suggested that surveillance tapes  from the club — which MTV News reported have been subpoenaed by the NYPD and are being reviewed — would effectively answer who started the brawl, hinting that it was sparked by Drake's table.

Another victim, Lucy Pavlovsky, suffered a gash on her arm that reportedly required 12 stitches and her lawyer told TMZ that a lawsuit against the responsible parties, including the club, may be on the horizon. The SoHo nightclub was shut down by police on Saturday along with Greenhouse, which is located in the same building and jointly owned.

In addition, W.i.P.'s manager, Jonathan Cantor, was arrested on unrelated charges  tied to two outstanding warrants early Friday morning.

The NYPD is also investigating reports that gunshots may have been fired inside the club as the bottles were flying between the crews. The Associated Press reported that some witnesses said they heard gunshots during the early-morning fight, but no one has reported seeing a weapon.

To date, Brown and his attorney have given statements to police, but a spokesperson for Drake said the Canadian MC has no plans to submit to questioning. "Why would he turn himself in when he did not commit any wrongdoing?" rep Kelly Bush told the New York Post. Over the weekend, police denied reports that Drake was to be arrested during his show at Jones Beach on Saturday.

While Brown's attorney has been heavily hinting that Drake was involved in starting the melee and that his client was a victim, Brown expressed his own feelings of victimization on Twitter on Friday. In since-deleted posts, Brown lashed out at gossip site TMZ, writing "@tmz y'all full of s---!!! It's insane how your stories are not informative at all and far from f---ing facts!" Brown, who has a history of posting Twitter screeds and then quickly removing them, added, "It's really sad. All y'all in that office sit behind a desk and hide behind ur lives by trying to tarnish others! Good game!"

Monday, June 18, 2012

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Kanye West Lines Up Two Shows At Atlantic City Casino

After Beyoncé's three-night stint at Revel, Kanye West will perform two shows of his own July 6 and 7.
By Nadeska Alexis

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Kanye West has been in Europe over the past few weeks, where he's performed dates on his Watch the Throne Tour with Jay-Z, premiered his "Cruel Summer" short film in France and spent a lot of time with Kim Kardashian. But in early July, 'Ye will finally be back in the States to perform two shows at Revel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Beyoncé helped launch the $2.4 billion casino and entertainment venue over Memorial Day weekend with three shows, and now Kanye will bring his star power to Revel in what's being billed as his first solo show since performing at last year's Coachella festival.

Despite the "solo" announcement, we're hoping that doesn't mean 'Ye's set will be free of features, as he's gearing up to drop his G.O.O.D. Music compilation album, led by the single "Mercy," featuring Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz.

Kanye will perform in Revel's Ovation Hall, designed by Cirque du Soleil's Scèno Plus, on July 6 and 7. Tickets will be on sale through Ticketmaster.com on Friday, beginning at 10 a.m.

Last month, Mr. West premiered his new short film, "Cruel Summer," in Cannes, France, revealing that it bears the same name as the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music album. The film stars Kid Cudi as a car thief who falls in love with a blind Arabian princess, and to share it with the world, Kanye had the film projected onto seven video screens inside a tented pyramid on the Mediterranean Sea. With his reputation for doing things big, we can't wait to see what he brings to his two-night stint at Revel.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Whatever euro's fate, Europe's reputation savaged

LONDON (Reuters) - Whether the euro lives or dies, the chaotic way Europe has tackled the crisis could undermine the region's geopolitical clout for years to come and leave it at a distinct disadvantage in a rapidly changing world.

With an apparently never-ending series of last-minute summits and telephone calls, Europe's leaders and finance ministers have held the bloc together in the face of growing strains between states, a rising political backlash and market alarm.

But with hindsight, outsiders say each measure proved too little, too late. US officials in particular complain European leaders have either failed to grasp the scale of the problem or proved unwilling to countenance the awkward political decisions necessary to fix it.

As a result, they say, what should have been one of the most stable parts of the world has now become one of the most unpredictable.

At one extreme, the euro area might be about to embark on a journey towards further fiscal and political union as an almost totally unitary "super state". At the other, it could unravel and collapse into an unstable mess of regional rivalry.

"From almost every conversation I've had in the last year - with Chinese, with Indians, with just about anybody - the message is always the same," says Fiona Hill, a former senior officer for the US National Intelligence Council and now head of the Europe programme at Washington think tank the Brookings Institute. "Europe can no longer be trusted. It seems to be moving from being a source of stability to a driver of instability"

Long-held certainties were being challenged, she said. Even non-euro member Britain suddenly appeared at risk of breaking up, with Scotland due to hold a referendum on independence that experts say could yet go either way.

The slow burning euro zone debt and banking crisis is accelerating. Last weekend brought a decision by euro zone political leaders to bail out Spain's banks. This weekend Greece holds a parliamentary election which many observers fear could spell the end of its euro membership.

Some argue it is too soon to write Europe - or the EU institutions - off altogether. Under foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, some credit Europe with making real progress in talks with Iran and other powers over the future of its disputed nuclear programme. But their energy for anything beyond their immediate problems is seen decidedly limited.

"The Europeans are completely consumed with a battle to save the euro zone," says Ian Bremmer, president of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. "It's a deep and ongoing crisis bigger than any they've experienced in decades... it's an environment where European leaders could hardly be expected to prioritise anything else."

That could leave the continent being increasingly sidelined as emerging powers - not just the BRIC powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China but other states such as Turkey, Indonesia and South Africa - grow in importance.

At the very least, it could undermine the ability of the continent's leaders to persuade the rest of the world to take them seriously on a range of issues, from trade to the importance of democracy and human rights.

"Europe probably isn't going to stop preaching to the rest of the world," says Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of national security studies at the US Naval War College. "But it's much less likely that others are going to be inclined to listen."

EUROPE AT CROSSROADS

At the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, European states suffered the indignity of being outside the room when the final deal was struck between the United States and emerging powers. In the aftermath of the euro zone crisis, it's a position European leaders may simply have to get used to.

But for the rest of the world, it's not just the continent itself that is rapidly losing its shine. The whole European political model - generous welfare systems, democratic decision-making, closer regional integration and the idea of a currency union as a stabilising factor - no longer seems nearly as appealing to other, still growing regions.

"Europe is at a crossroads, with the very future of the EU at stake," says Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at New Delhi think tank the Centre for Policy Research. "If the euro dies, it will mark the end of the European experiment in forging closer financial and political integration. But it will also have wider international implications."

Not everyone agrees what those will be, however. Chellaney argues the demise of the euro might help secure the primacy of the dollar - and therefore perhaps of the United States itself - for years to come.

But others believe a European collapse would be a sign of things to come for the US as well. Bharat Karnad, a colleague of Chellaney at the Centre for Policy Research, argues that whatever happens powers such as China are on the rise and that the West will be increasingly challenged regardless of what happens to the euro.

"The health of the euro or the EU, for that matter, will have a marginal impact on gold and power that is tending any way towards Asia, especially China," he said.

Washington takes the potential threat of Europe's unravelling very seriously. In the short-term, the Obama administration is clearly concerned over the electoral fallout should the crisis in Europe cross the Atlantic before November's presidential election.

But in the longer term, whether the euro survives or not US planners are beginning to face up to the fact that the continent will likely be poorer and rather more self-centred than Washington had hoped.

Washington has long been pushing European powers to take more responsibility for their own immediate neighbourhood. While Britain and France took the political lead in Libya last year, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates complained European NATO forces were in fact almost entirely dependent on US munitions, logistics and other backup.

But the change in European thinking and the additional defence spending Washington called for now looks all but impossible in this time of austerity.

WASHINGTON WORRIED

"It's doubtful any future US Defence Secretary is even going to bother to make that kind of pitch," says Gvosdev at the US Naval War College. "We'd hoped Europe could take the lead in some parts of North Africa as well as the Balkans and Eastern Europe. That now looks very unlikely."

US planners were also waking up to the fact that European states were no longer likely to match US donor pledges when it came to humanitarian or financial aid for war zones and troublespots, he said. Then, there were longer term strategic concerns.

Washington's military "pivot " towards Asia, he said, had been based in part on the assumption that Europe would remain stable and wealthy and the US now had little or nothing to worry about on its North Atlantic flank. A weakened Europe could make US planners much less confident of that, particularly if China extends its influence.

Beijing has upped its investments in Europe in recent years, including major port projects in Greece and Italy.

Some political analysts contend the weaknesses and drivers behind the euro zone crisis go much further and can be found in most western economies - including the United States itself.

"The jettison involves essentially the ballast which used to provide stability to the vessel of post-war society," Jin Liqun, chairman of the supervisory board for China's sovereign wealth fund the China Investment Corporation, wrote on May 21 in Communist Party-run newspaper the People's Daily, making it clear he saw similar problems in the US.

Some waning of Europe's international influence was always likely, experts say, with an ageing population chewing up ever more resources and emerging economies inevitably growing faster. But the current crisis could supercharge its decline. Whether the continent's leaders realise that, however, is another matter.

"Europe's main source of influence (should) be the success of its political and economic model in providing high living standards and democratic freedoms," says Jack Goldstone, professor of international affairs at George Mason University near Washington DC "If the current crisis undermines both of those as well, Europe will look like a rather weak, badly run system of ageing and economically stagnant states. Irrelevance awaits." (editing by Janet McBride)

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