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Pros: A visually-evolved sequel to 2003's built-in iPod game Music Quiz, drawing on your iPod's music database for five fun, game show-like rounds of trivia, plus wagering bonus rounds. Engaging and fun. Includes separate factual trivia packs for music, movies, and TV shows that don't require these forms of content to be on your iPod. For first time ever, permits users to create their own add-on trivia packs with graphics and text of their own, whether educational, fun, or serious, using free quiz creation software. Aggressively priced by iPod Game standards. Cons: Requires a well-tuned iPod music database for main Music Quiz 2 portion to work properly, and even then, randomly-generated questions occasionally may be difficult to answer other than with random luck. Relatively high iPod battery drain in Music Quiz 2 mode.

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It is a truism in Silicon Valley that information wants to be free. Increasingly, entertainment is becoming more like information. It is being shaped by the same physics and business models that govern information technology. As a consequence, entertainment wants to be free; that is to say, free of the artificial constraints on its consumption that are vestiges of business models that were established in an analog world. British music label EMI's recent announcement that it would offer its music online without the DRM (Digital Rights Management) locks that confined it to one type of digital player is a powerful strategic move to navigate the new world where entertainment is very much like information. The motion picture and television industries, both of which have had a little more time to try to prepare for life in the information industry, should be watching EMI closely.

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Apple's first big music deal since Steve Jobs posted his Anti-DRM manifesto will have Apple distributing the bulk of EMI's music portfolio (sans the Beatles) DRM-free. Reportedly the deal was EMI's idea and is not exclusive. Apple will peddle the DRM-free tunes and albums for $1.29 a pop, 30 cents more than its FairPlay-encumbered wares, and as a an enticement collectors will get higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding. Upgrades will cost the 30-cent difference.Jobs is trying to sell the same deal to the other labels on the theory that CDs don't have DRM so why should digital music. He figures half of the five million songs on iTunes will be DRM-free by the end of the year.It's assumed more digital downloads will offset crashing CD sales. Whether it does anything to address the wholesale theft that's been going on remains to be seen.Download Free Ipod Movies: The machines of media management

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A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state of Wisconsin to raise its prices. Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2-cent-per-gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon. But the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price. Bhandari said he received a letter from the state auditor last month saying the state would sue him if he did not raise his prices. Bhandari, who bought the station a year ago, said he worries customers will think he stopped the discounts because he wants to make more money.

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Amazon could be the next major name to dive into the world of unprotected music sales. Various rumors have been picking up over the past couple of weeks that the online retailer was readying itself to launch an MP3 download store in May, which some see as one of the only retailers that will be able to truly challenge Apple's ubiquitous iTunes Store. According to a report in the UK's Times Online, Amazon has approached "all the music majors in the past fortnight" in order to launch its MP3 store in May but may have some trouble meeting its own deadline. Apple plans to start selling DRM-free music from EMI in May through its own music store, which could be the cause for Amazon's rush. The report speculates that if the Internet giant is successful in launching on time, it may initially launch with unprotected music from EMI as well.

Download Free Ipod Movies: Disney Expands Mix Brand with Online ... The Disney Mix brand is expanding online with the launch of the all new "Disney Mix Central," an online media store where parents can help their kids access favorite Disney entertainment. Designed to compliment Disney's popular line of media players, Disney Mix Stick (MP3) and Disney Mix Max (Video/MP3), www.DisneyMixCentral.com offers popular songs and music videos from Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records as well as podcasts from Disney Channel. Mix Central features hits from numerous Disney stars including Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, The Cheetah Girls, Vanessa Hudgens, Aly & AJ, Corbin Bleu, plus soundtracks such as High School Musical and Jump In! and compilations including Disneymania 5. All Disney Mix Stick and Disney Mix Max players sold to date will support Mix Central.