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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 [...]

Pandora Goes Set-top With Livio Radio

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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Up until now, Pandora was pretty much exclusively an computer-based product. While the company moved past the PC with the launch of its iPhone application, not until now has it been available in a more traditional form. Enter Livio Radio. Along with being able to receive about 11,000 Internet radio stations, it is the first Internet [...]

Pandora Placing Ads in Audio Streams

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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With Pandora’s struggle to stay afloat in the news a lot lately, the idea that ads may make their way into its streams did not seem such an impossibility. While it was nice to listen to the company’s offerings free of advertisement, Pandora has come dangerously close several times to shutting down simply because it [...]

Looks Like Pandora Could Stuff Doom Back Into the Box

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Don’t declare victory just yet, but Pandora, the really cool, wildly popular online music streaming service, may avoid being driven out of business by dramatically higher licensing fees. The House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Webcaster Settlement Bill, which gives online music services such as Pandora more time to work out a deal with [...]

Good Grief, Are Even Our Clipboards Not Sacrosanct?

Monday, August 18, 2008

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Here’s a good computing rule of thumb: If you discover a mysterious link in your Clipboard for a piece of security software you’ve never heard of, DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK AND BUY THE SOFTWARE!