Tag: SLACKER

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 ...

What It Does: Slacker Radio is an Internet radio application that can create custom playlists based on your taste in music. Until now, to take advantage of Slacker, you either had to be sitting in front of your computer or cough up $199 - $299 for a dedicated Slacker Player. Now, Slacker is expanding to the iPhone and offering a free application -- similar to the much-loved Pandora -- that ...

Slacker must have figured our jetsetter friends at Gadling needed some more tunes for their travels, because it hooked them up with an early review unit of the new Slacker G2 Wi-Fi radio. Nothing much has changed about the Slacker service, which basically auto-downloads your choice of pre-programmed channels to the 4 or 8GB or internal storage over Wi-Fi (you can get on Wayport and AT&T ...