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Pandora Will Live On, At a Price

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

With the music industry demanding ever-higher royalty rates for online radio, Pandora’s future has been in jeopardy for some time, but now it seems a workable deal has been struck. The station is “finally on safe ground with a long-term agreement for survivable royalty rates,” Pandora CTO Tom Conrad told TechCrunch today. SoundExchange, which collects royalties for [...]

Sirius XM Says 1 Million Have Downloaded iPhone App

Monday, July 6, 2009

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While Sirius XM may not be having much success keeping customers, it seems to be having a good deal of good fortune attracting listeners through its App Store offering, apparently. In the first two weeks of availability, the Sirius XM application has been downloaded 1 million times. Sirius XM Premium Online is free to download, however [...]

Learning to Leave Satellite Radio

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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I’ve been making noises about the idea of retiring my XM satellite radio receiver, canceling my account, and using my iPhone as an audio device in my car for a while now. The more XM charges and the less I like its programming, the more tempting the idea becomes. Now I’ve finally gone and taken [...]

Like Action? Listen to Police and Fire Scanners

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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I started to write about ways to glean info in a national disaster. I’ll get to that in another story, because as I dug around, I discovered live scanner feeds. You know the kind–police, fire and rescue, forest service, emergency services — and I wiped out an afternoon glued to the broadcasts. I listened to the [...]

For-Pay Slacker Radio for Free

Friday, February 6, 2009

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The folks at Slacker, one of my favorite sources of Internet radio, have provided Technologizer with some one-month free trials of their premium Radio Plus service, which doesn’t have ads, lets you skip past an unlimited number of songs, and gives you unlimited ability to request songs. The one-month trial is worth $3.99, and you [...]

Slacker’s iPhone Music App Gives Pandora a Run For Its Money

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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Slacker, the nifty personalized online radio service that’s available on the Web and on a dedicated portable player, is making its way onto phones. Last week at CES, the company released a version that runs on most modern BlackBerry phones, and today brought an iPhone edition. I haven’t tried the BlackBerry one yet, but the [...]

Internet Radio in Your Car

Friday, January 9, 2009

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For me, the Consumer Electronics Show’s expansive hall of car electronics is usually by far the show’s least interesting quarters–it’s dominated by loudspeakers, in-car DVD players, and other pretty prosaic stuff. But I’m intrigued by Torian Wireless’s partnership with Blaupunkt to create what Torian says is the world’s first Internet car radio. The radio piggybacks on [...]

Slacker G2 Internet Radio Portable: The Technologizer Review

Monday, September 15, 2008

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Here’s a weird thing about Internet radio: For the most part it’s been among the least portable forms of digital entertainment. Most people who listen to nifty, personalized services such as Pandora and Last.FM do so via desktop and laptop PCs with a live Internet connection. Which makes ‘em very different from plain old radio, [...]