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Why bother tuning in your local radio stations when you can listen to Internet radio from around the world?  However, some spots don’t exactly lend themselves to having a full fledged computer to act as an Internet radio.  Vtech aimed to solve that problem with the Vtech IS9181, their Wi-Fi… Continue Reading »

For a while it was starting to look rather iffy as to whether or not Pandora, as well as internet radio in general, was going to be able to continue, or die a sad death.  The cost of keeping it afloat was simply getting too high in the face of… Continue Reading »

Acoustic Research has just announced two new Internet radios that will have plenty of unique features without the hassle of a PC tether.  The two models, the AR Infinite Radio 200 and 600i will both have Wi-Fi connectivity, AM/FM radio stations, and 512MB storage memory. Without the need to directly… Continue Reading »

Americans are ditching their land lines in masses.  No one knows that better than the maker of many of the phones that used to be plugged into those lines.  VTech took a look at the declining market and decided it was time to diversify.  So leveraging their strengths, namely RF… Continue Reading »

VTech Communications has entered the home audio market with its IS9181 Internet radio receiver.  It connects to 802.11 b & g networks, bringing the user over 11,000 Internet radio stations.  The device also allows the user to wirelessly access MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and Real files stored on PC or… Continue Reading »

Blaupunkt introduced the World’s First Internet Car Radio at CES.  The company partnered with miRoamer to create the radio which will give users access to a substantial amount of Internet radio content previously not available through an in-car stereo.  Dr. Gerhard Pitz, Head of the Car Stereo Product Center at… Continue Reading »

Slacker has added a new subscription plan to go along with its “Premium” subscription plan—a newer, low-cost “Radio Plus” subscription.  Slacker offers Internet radio to its Slacker portable players and online at their website.  Without a subscription, you have to sit through ads and can only skip six songs per… Continue Reading »

Pandora has recently announced support for select Windows Mobile devices.  Unfortunately, the handsets that are supported are limited to just the HTC Touch and the Motorola Q9C.  Users of either of these handsets can browse over to www.pandora.com on their mobile browser to install the app.  Pandora is free to… Continue Reading »

It seems like just yesterday this thing went for $199 and you could easily justify that cost.  But at $49.99, it is a whopper of steal.  Today, at woot.com, they are selling it like hotcakes, or so I imagine. This player is unique in that it saves Slacker’s Internet radio… Continue Reading »

We’ve already heard about the problems Pandora has been having with the upcoming RIAA royalty structure.  But we’re already starting to see the effects on smaller internet radio sites.  Muxtape’s main page hold’s a sad message reading; “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a… Continue Reading »