Tag: INTERNET RADIO

A new poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that Internet news sources continue to command more U.S. readers than both local and national newspapers. The Web overtook newspapers in 2008, and has only lengthened its lead, with 61-percent of adults saying they get at least some news online. More important than the Web's growing popularity as a news source, though, is how ...

At this point, free Internet radio stations abound, but one of our perennial favorites has been Pandora.com. (Go on and sign up; you'll see.) Based on an admirably well researched database called The Music Genome Project, Pandora automatically generates a customizable playlist based on whatever song or artist you choose, explaining exactly why each song has been selected in remarkably musical ...

In a move that goes against the grain, Last.fm will become more than just a Web property by expanding to the radio airwaves. Starting in four markets (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco), Last.fm will broadcast on CBS HD radio stations. According to paidContent, the broadcasts, set to begin October 5th, will feature music pulled from the online service's user-generated charts. In ...

After years of quibbling with record labels, sweating a 2007 government-proposed royalty hike, and dealing with their increasingly uncertain future, Internet radio stations are finally off the hook, the New York Times reports. These stations -- among which Pandora and Slacker are probably the best known -- enable users to enjoy custom-tailored streams of music, free of charge. Because the sites ...

My, my -- now isn't this something? Shortly after narrowly avoiding a dastardly collision with bankruptcy, Sirius XM is looking to connect itself with profitable enterprises in an attempt to build market share and regain interest from budget-conscience consumers. Just weeks after hearing that the sat radio company could be preparing a few Sirius / DirecTV bundles, CFO David Frear has now ...

We're big fans of Internet radio here at Switched, keeping our speakers pumping while we keep blogging all the day long. So, it's with a bit of trepidation that we bring you news from Download Squad on a new bit of software that, on one hand makes it easy to stream hundreds of those choice radio streams, but on the other might just help to bring down the industry by letting you quickly and ...

If you're the kind of music lover who knows what you like but have a hard time finding new bands to add to your collection, Pandora is the service for you. It lets you pick bands you like, and then listen in to a custom radio station created around your tastes. Unfortunately, though, Web radio stations like Pandora may be going offline for good in 2010 thanks to higher royalty fees that may mean ...

Asus isn't just in the market of making laptops and computer parts. Asus also makes an award winning line of Internet radios. At this year's CES, the company is showing off two new members of its AIR (Asus Internet Radio) family. The AIR 3 allows you to pull in radio streams over Wi-Fi from all around the globe, without a computer. The internal database of over 10,000 streams is updated ...

Facing extinction thanks to new (much higher) per-track and per-user fees being levied on them by the RIAA come July 15, thousands of Internet radio stations last week held a "Day of Silence" in which they didn't broadcast a single sound, giving listeners a preview of what to expect after the financial bloodbath. Despite the silence, it seems people were listening. SoundExchange, the ...

Sprint has announced that Pandora-powered streaming radio stations are now available on five of its phones (which will be joined in the next 30 days by at least five additional phones). Pandora is a Web-based service that creates personalized streaming radio stations for users based on listening preferences. It works by breaking down songs by their "musical DNA" (a fancy techno-babble word for ...