Hasta La Gadget!

When music streaming app Audiogalaxy announced its acquisition by Dropbox earlier this month and closed signups we feared the worst, and now it’s been confirmed: the service is shutting down entirely on January 31st, 2013. It had previously announced subscribers would have access to their mixes until the end of this month, but after another month they’ll have to move to a service like Google Play Music, or possibly self hosting with Subsonic or something similar. The original blog post mentioned a desire to bring “great new experiences” to Dropbox’s 100 million plus users so we may see some of those features again, soon. As for the service itself, Founder Michael Merhej relaunched it just over two years ago after version 1.0 — a web-based music file sharing service that eclipsed its competitors during its run from 1998 to 2002 — was squeezed out by RIAA pressure, so we figure anything is possible in the future.

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With a little over a week to go until “Once Upon a Time’s” return (Sun., Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. EST), ABC has released an extended preview trailer for the fantasy drama’s upcoming episodes — and it looks like there’s plenty of action ahead.

The midseason finale saw Emma and Mary Margaret finally return from Fairytale Land, but unbeknownst to our heroes, the villainous Hook and Cora also managed to cross over to our world — and they’re both looking for revenge.

Not only does the new promo highlight long-overdue confrontations between Rumple and Hook, and Regina and Cora, it also teases that the curse keeping our fairytale characters trapped in Storybrooke is about to be broken — but how? We’ll have to tune in on Jan. 6 to find out, but in the meantime, watch the video for a hint of what’s ahead in the second half of the season.

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ZTE has announced that it will unveil its ultra-thin 5-inch phablet, the Grand S, at CES 2013, the upcoming mega tech event. The Grand S is only 6.9mm thick, making it the thinnest phablet to (eventually) hit the market. This comes shortly after it announced its other high-end phablet, the Nubia Z5, a sleek device that is unlike the Chinese company’s typically lower-end devices.

ZTE is going all-out when it comes to phablets, it seems, pumping out two high-end, ultra-thin handsets back-to-back. The Nubia Z5 got to hold the title of thinnest phablet for a full day before details about the Grand S were announced. Not many images are available, but those that have surface over at Weibo show a thin phone with a light rounded back and dark face.

As far as specs go, they’re as impressive as the Nubia Z5′s. The display measures in at 5-inches with a full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. Around back, there’s a 13-megapixel camera, and presumably there’s a front camera as well, although that is unconfirmed. Inside you’ll find a Snapdragon S4 1.5GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. The only difference between the Grand S’s specs and the Nubia Z5′s is the battery – the Grand S has a lower capacity battery at 2500mAh.

The other difference is in price: the Nubia Z5 is priced at about $550USD, while the Grand S, if rumors are true, will cost about $450USD. This will put the handset at a lower price point than its competition. That’s all we know until CES rolls around, which we’ll be covering, so stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated as new details surface.

[via Android Community]

ZTE to show off Grand S, world’s thinnest phablet, at CES is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — The publisher of the Orange County Register said Thursday that at an investor group he leads may want to buy Tribune Co.’s newspapers after the media conglomerate emerges from bankruptcy.

“We clearly have the means and the team by which to look seriously at the Tribune papers and, from the outside, they may very well have enough of the elements that we’re looking for,” said Aaron Kushner, chief executive of 2100 Trust LLC, which bought Freedom Communications Inc. and its flagship paper, the Register, in July.

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New Year’s Eve is almost upon us, which means parties, fireworks and the dilemma of who to kiss at midnight.

Primetime boasts a whole host of memorable characters — both those we love and those we love to hate — but while we’re happy to spend an hour with them every week, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’d want to invite them into our homes for a party.

With that in mind, HuffPost TV has rounded up 15 TV characters who we think would liven up any New Year’s Eve celebration — whether they can work a little magic, like Rumplestiltskin or Barney Stinson, or regale us with tales about their adventures in space or parallel universes, like Walter Bishop or a certain Time Lord. Check out our list below and hit the comments to tell us which fictional characters you’d like to spend New Year’s Eve with — and which you think would be total party poopers.

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