Software

free Pandora evil music box for Blackberry: suitsworkers now can dance dance dance on subway train thank you

order qty-infinity songs variations from free blackberry pandora app from Tim. crazy for man who releases real news on apr1!1! suits can dance time! [Pandora]


March 25, 2009
Software

Last.fm Silences Third-Party Mobile Apps

Hot off an announcement that they’d be charging for radio access outside the US, UK and Germany, Last.fm has said that all non-official mobile clients will be banned. This isn’t going over well.


Entertainment

Farewell Last.FM, We Hardly Knew Thee…

Gizmodo AU

Before you panic, Last.FM hasn’t gone bust and disappeared. They’re still around, still available and still going strong. No, the reason we’re saying goodbye is because they’ve just announced that for all customers outside of the US, UK and Germany, they’re going to be charging a monthly subscription fee of €3.00 per month (about $5.80).


March 19, 2009
Software

Pandora Released for BlackBerries

We’ve heard that BlackBerry users aren’t supposed to care about music, only typing on full QWERTY keyboards during marathon power lunches. In case we’ve been lied to, you should know that Pandora v1 is out for BlackBerry—so long as you aren’t on T-Mobile. [Pandora via BGR]


February 18, 2009

Sirius XM Gets Bailed Out By Owners of QVC, Avoids Bankruptcy Scare

Liberty Media (proud owners of Starz, QVC and a 48% chunk of DirecTV) made a last-minute deal with Sirius XM, whose impending bankruptcy would have been the second biggest Chapter-11 filing this year.


January 22, 2009
Entertainment

We Now Interrupt Pandora Radio For This Brief Message, Every So Often

Everybody’s favourite web- and iPhone-streaming internet radio service (AU: except for us Aussies who can’t get it) Pandora is now getting brief 15-second audio commercials sprinkled into its free playlists.


January 14, 2009
Software

Slacker Radio Now Available for the iPhone

We knew it was coming, but now the Slacker internet radio app is officially available on the iPhone.


January 6, 2009
Entertainment

World’s First Internet Car Radio Would Go Perfectly in KITT’s Dashboard

Satellite radio is dead. The world’s first internet car radio, from Blaupunkt and miRoamer delivers thousands of internet stations integrated with a standard AM/FM/CD dash console worthy of KITT.


December 5, 2008
Gadgets

Sanyo R227 Internet Radio, Perfect Use for the Neighbour’s Wi-Fi

The Sanyo R227 isn’t an entirely new product, but it’s new to us in the US. A Wi-Fi-based radio, the R227 allows users to scan for internet music just like they would FM.


November 11, 2008
Software

Apple Rejects CastCatcher 1.3 App for ‘Transferring Excessive Volumes of Data’

I think Apple’s rejection of the latest update to CastCatcher—an internet radio app—is the first we’ve seen because it “transfer[s]excessive volumes of data over the cellular network.” Interestingly, the current version, 1.2, is still in the store, and return7′s co-founder, Amro Mousa, told us that CastCatcher 1.3 doesn’t “use more bandwidth than prior versions (or any other streaming app).”