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AT&T teams with eMusic to sell really expensive tunes

We love us some eMusic. The legal download service eschews DRM and still sells tracks for far less than any other popular service. So, it's come as a shock to us that eMusic is teaming with stodgy AT&T to sell music downloads to phones -- except the iPhone, no joy in Mudville for iPhone users. Music downloads will cost $7.49 per five songs, five times more than music costs when using eMusic's online subscription service and your portable music player.

Is convenience really worth 5 times the per song price? We don't think so. AT&T is pretty late to the music download to mobile game, and we applaud their choice of eMusic as a partner but, please, don't rip us off.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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