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In addition to the already announced Fujitsu-Toshiba Arrows Z, HTC Evo 3D and Motorola Photon, Japanese carrier KDDI has now also confirmed a trio of new handsets. There’s plenty of similarities; they’re all Android, all waterproof and are each packing an eight megapixel camera. Kyocera’s Digno is a slimline offering available in three different colors, and puts some of Kyocera’s US offerings to shame looks-wise. Sharp’s AQUOS IS13SH has an IPS-rivalling ASV display, whilst the NEC’s Medias BR IS11 will arrive in a choice of pink, white and blue. Sadly, there’s still no sign of that mythical iPhone from KDDI. Check out the links below for all the full-fat details.

KDDI launches latest line of skinny big-screened smartphones for Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Have you ever wanted to buy something but knew that you had absolutely no need for it so you just tried to forget about it but every time you see it again, you want to buy it even more? That’s my relationship with Buckyballs. I just can’t justify spending money on those stupid metal balls. For what? Stress reliever? Clarity? So I can play with balls? Or can I? It’s like a rare alien metal that can somehow stick together. I don’t know how it works! It’s magic. An inevitable purchase. They have Buckycubes now for $25 (+ $5 shipping) which makes them even harder to avoid. I gotsta have it. But what about when they start introducing triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, paralellograms, hexagons, and rhombuses. Rhombuses were always my favorite shape (partly because I always forgot what they actually were). I’m gonna stay strong and hold out for the Buckyrhombuses. -CC More »

This article was written on August 03, 2007 by CyberNet.

Anyone that has been using BitTorrent for several years undoubtedly knows, or used, the SuprNova.org site. It was a BitTorrent tracker much like what The Pirate Bay is today, and before shutting SuprNova down in December 2004 it was bringing in some 1.5 million visitors per day. It has since become a mere legend in the world of file sharing, but The Pirate Bay is hoping to give it a breath of new life.

The owner of the site, Andrej Preston, closed the doors because he didn’t want to keep fighting the legal warnings that SuprNova was receiving. In 2005 Andrej used the site to host a beta version of eXeem, which was a file sharing application that was supported by the dreaded Cydoor spyware. Later that same year eXeem was also shutdown after tarnishing their reputation.

Also in 2005, SuprNova was used as a file sharing news site, but even that didn’t last a full year’s time. As of today the site is stilling being served with pure ads, but that will all be changing soon.

Andrej has transferred the domain over to The Pirate Bay’s co-founder, Frederick Neij. The Pirate Bay can do whatever they want with it now, but Andrej requested that the site not change from what people were used to:

I’m tired of the questions why I will not bring SuprNova up again. I thought myself that SuprNova is going to be dead forever, and I have even written myself, that SuprNova will never return as a torrent site. But things changed in real life and in my head.

My deal with [The Pirate Bay] was that the role of SuprNova can’t change much. It needs to be community orientated, but I hope they make some updates the SuprNova was sooo missing. But what they will do, it’s not my thing to decide anymore. But I know they will do [well] and will try to keep the community spirit running.

I’m going to go study abroad, actually in film industry and I do not want to be associated with it anymore. I still support the whole concept of piracy and I believe it’s the next step in ’media revolution’, but I do not have the time for it anymore, or do I not want to be associated to it until I’m in USA.

Wow! He is going to try and get into the film industry now? I’m sure someone is bound to realize who he is and what he started.

In the mean time a forum has been setup at SuprBay.org where users can watch for news and announcements, or submit bugs and suggestions for both SuprNova and The Pirate Bay. There has been no word on as to when we can expect to see SuprNova back up and running, but looking at The Pirate Bay’s track record I would say that it won’t be going down again after it launches.

It appears that The Pirate Bay is trying to dabble in everything, and up until now they have launched an uncensored image sharing site, a video sharing site is in the works, and they’ve even got a legal site called Playble. I think their unmatched growth can only mean one thing…a Google acquisition is in the near future.

The closest incarnation of SuprNova available today is probably Mininova. It’s a great BitTorrent search source with a simple interface, and much like old SuprNova it has a dedicated community of over 75,000 forum members.

Sources: TorrentFreak and Slyck

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You can buy it on Sprint, snag in on October 2nd at AT&T, or just sit tight and wait for Magenta to get its Galaxy S II release ball rolling. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Mobilize announcement, T-Mobile’s thrown up a product page for its particular variant of Samsung’s uber-hyped handset, in addition to a landing page for the recently unveiled HTC Amaze 4G (a rebranded Sensation XE for the states). The operator’s set an official October 12th launch date for its 42Mbps HSPA+ smartphones, with concrete pricing that pegs HTC’s amazing device at $260, and Sammy’s TouchWiz-inflected beast at $230 — both after a $50 rebate on a new two-year contract. If you’re as jazzed about these closer to 4G fine, faux-G phones as we are, be sure to hit up the source link below to sign-up for an early order notification.

HTC Amaze 4G, Samsung Galaxy S II sign-up pages go live on T-Mobile, 42Mbps speeds within reach originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If online video streams and locally stored media aren’t providing enough functionality for your Boxee Box, now you can watch regular TV on it too. The Digital Lifestyle mentions DVBLogic has released a new version of its DVBLink client for the device that lets you browse the program guide and watch live TV, provided you also have a home server set up with its software and a tuner. If you’re not familiar with the software, it lets you turn most any UPnP-compatible device into an extender capable of caching live streams, with clients available for iPad / iPhone already, plus Android and WP7 on the way. You’ll need the latest release candidate version of DVBLink Connect! server software to make it all go, then point your Boxee Box browser to the company’s repository to download the client software and let us know how it all works out.

DVBLogic’s Boxee app brings live TV streaming to the Box originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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