Rising fees may force founder to pull the plug on Pandora
MacDailyNews — ... paid by Pandora and others are funneled to collection groups like SoundExchange," Steve Bosak reports for CIO Today. MacDailyNews Note: Pandora is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service where users enter a song or artist and the service plays selections that are musically similar. Because of recent Copyright Royalty Board rulings that increased fees and ask for licensing guarantees, Pandora is no longer available outside the United States. More info via Pandora here . Pandora for iPhone and iPod touch via iTunes' App Store ...

Rising fees may force founder to to pull the plug on Pandora
MacDailyNews — ... paid by Pandora and others are funneled to collection groups like SoundExchange," Steve Bosak reports for CIO Today. MacDailyNews Note: Pandora is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service where users enter a song or artist and the service plays selections that are musically similar. Because of recent Copyright Royalty Board rulings that increased fees and ask for licensing guarantees, Pandora is no longer available outside the United States. More info via Pandora here . Pandora for iPhone and iPod touch via iTunes' App Store ...

Pandora may pull the plug on itself
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / OpinionThe Washington Post is reporting that Pandora, the Internet radio station available on Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch, may be shutting down service soon. The reason is that Sound Exchange, the money-grubbing blackmailers royalties collection arm affiliated with the Recording Industry Association of America, has imposed restrictive administrative fees ($500 per year per channel) and ridiculous royalty fees (2.91 cents per hour per listener) on Internet radio stations. While many companies that provide Internet radio ...

In face of exorbitant fees, Pandora may have to pull the plug
MacUser — ... , it appears that Pandora, one of the web's most popular radio services, may be nearing its untimely end as well. Despite the fact that it serves nearly 1 million listeners daily, is one of the 10 most popular applications for the iPhone, and is rapidly growing its customer base, the site is struggling to make ends meet due to—you guessed it—the wrath of the lumbering, suicidal music industry. ...

My favorite iPod touch apps: Mike R.'s picks
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPod Family, App StoreIn contributing my share to our ongoing series of favorites for Mac and iPhone apps, I think I'm the first of our crew to focus on the iPhone's sleeker sibling. The iPod touch may not have the communications and GPS capabilities of the motherphone, but what it lacks in circuitry it makes up for in panache. I've found apps that are kid-pleasers, apps that leverage the touch's native WiFi location capability, and apps that challenge the brain. (All links are directly to the App Store.) Comic Touch from Plasq. Although the iPhone's camera ...

iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors — ... , he described a new music recommendation feature within iTunes 8, but gave few details. An anonymous tip has since suggested that this "genius playlist" feature would be able to generate a playlist based on the qualities of a selected song, giving a Pandora-like experience with your own music library. This, however, remains unconfirmed and is published for interest only. Finally, Rose ...

Handicapping Apple’s September 9 event (updated)
The Apple Core — ... ” that “would be able to generate a playlist based on the qualities of a selected song, giving a Pandora-like experience with your own music library.” Rose ...

Great Pandora listening going on
jkOnTheRun — ... I have been rocking along today with Pandora, my favorite audio program on any computer.  Today I've been rocking with a Stone Temple Pilots channel created just for me by Pandora.  Sweet! ...

Pandora over EDGE on the run: better than expected
jkOnTheRun — ... James mentioned Pandora yesterday and it led me to try a little experiment on a late afternoon 5k run yesterday. I use Pandora all about the house over WiFi: it's a common sight & sound in our home as I use the app on my iPhone to pipe tunes through the home entertainment system. Yet, I've never used Pandora for any length of time over EDGE, so I tried it yesterday during my run. I realize that everyone's EDGE coverage area is unique and different, so what works for some won't work for others. Still, I was pretty impressed. ...

Genius Makes Smart Playlists Even Smarter
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... the history of other users, if you purchase Avril Lavigne, Apple can easily recommend Pink. Paranoid people, rest easy: Apple won’t be able to hold your purchase of Fergie’s “London Bridge” against you These playlists can be created, modified, and saved with ease on both iTunes and your iPod. Genius also recommends songs not currently in your library, so you can buy them (for the usual $.99, natch) and perfect your new playlist. Music recommendation services are not unique to Apple. Pandora radio has carved a niche for itself with recommendations. And online music store Amie ...

The Real Genius in iTunes 8? Apple Will Make More Money.
louisgray.com — ... One of the major new features of iTunes 8 is called "Genius", which will leverage your own iTunes listening history, as well as that of other iTunes users, and try to create a playlist of songs similar to that which you are listening to. Like "Party Shuffle", it will get some mixes right, and some wrong, but it's following along the path of Pandora and ...

Review: iTunes 8
Macworld — ... and Pandora . If you choose to use Genius, which is optional, a few things happen. First, it analyzes your iTunes library and transmits that data, anonymously, to the Apple’s servers. That data is compared to data from countless other iTunes 8 users, and fed into Apple’s Genius algorithms. The algorithm then reports the results back to iTunes, which uses it to create Genius playlists of 25, 50, or 100 songs, based on whatever track you select. You can listen to that playlist, save it for later, or hit Refresh and have Genius create another playlist that is more to your liking. ...

Save Pandora, Apple
The Apple Core — September 13th, 2008 Save Pandora, Apple Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 6:02 am Categories: Music , iTunes Tags: Apple Inc. , Apple iTunes , Pandora , Digital Music , Digital Media , Personal Technology , Consumer Electronics , Jason D. O'Grady Save Pandora, Apple I’m a big fan of Pandora , the Internet’s best streaming music site and recommendation engine. Recently it has come to light that the service’s future is in jeopardy because of new royalties enacted in March 2007 by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board force ...

Internet audio and the smallest step forward
Macworld — ... —an effort that A) pays artists and labels fairly for the use of their work or B) jacks up royalty rates to such an extent that some consider this nothing less than an attempt by representatives of the music industry to price webcasters and services such as Pandora off the Internet. Since I penned that article, little had changed until this week. The rate hikes haven’t yet been imposed, thus allowing webcasters to continue operations. But Pandora and others suggested that should those rates come about, they would be forced to close shop. This week, however, there’s been a ...

iPhone vs Android: When It Comes To Wooing Developers, Don't Underestimate the First Mover Advantage
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — ... of Apple’s SDK plans way back in October of 2007), many will likely take a “wait-and-see” approach to Android. That creates a chicken-and-egg conundrum for Android, seems to me. If top developers are waiting and seeing while iPhone sales zoom ahead, it could impact or at least temper Android’s ability to get off the ground. Take Pandora , the popular Internet radio site. It’s had huge demand for its service since ...

Guest Post :: Using Windows on a Mac
The Mac Lawyer — ... for Windows, and copied all of my songs over to the Windows side, the partitions got full pretty fast with my music (so I use Pandora online, or iTunes radio).  It was redundant to have all that music saved on each partition anyway. ...

Social Media Workflow on the iPhone
louisgray.com — By Phil Glockner of Scribkin (FriendFeed/Twitter) I wanted to write a slightly different type of iPhone app review today. Instead of focusing specifically on one or two apps, I wanted to bring you with me as I walk through the tools I rely on daily as I check out the social media ‘scene.' Also, I'd like to prefix by stating that the iPhone has been an amazingly capable and flexible platform for web-based activities such as this. Not only does it work better for me than any mobile smartphone I've used ...

Guest Post :: Getting the Most Out of Boot Camp
The Mac Lawyer — ... , there are ways around it, but they're sloppy and inefficient -- at worst copying all the same files to both volumes, and at best using some online substitute like Pandora or streaming radio.  However, with a lovely little application by Mediafour called ...

Review: Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player
Macworld — by Roman Loyola , Macworld.com Internet radio is an excellent way to discover new music , but, as the name implies, you need an Internet connection. Internet radio services such as Pandora , Last.fm , and AOL Radio offer Internet radio apps for the iPhone , but they still require an Internet connection—and they also sap your iPhone’s precious battery power. The folks over at Slacker have an Internet radio service and they also offer a way to enjoy Slacker without a constant Internet connection. With the G2 Personal Radio Player , you can load ...

Six free Apple iPhone downloads you don't want to miss
Macworld — ... (Link opens iTunes) Pandora Radio for iPhone: Customized streaming music Your iPhone is very likely jam packed with all of your favorite tunes—or at least the songs you could fit. But while you may have all the classics, your current audio collection does little to help you locate and listen to new music. That’s where the free Pandora Radio for iPhone application sweeps in to help. This ...

Our Favorite iPhone Apps: Best information tools
Macworld — ... . Best radio app, Internet division Pandora Radio ( [image] ) isn’t the only Internet radio app for the iPhone, but it offers more surprises, selecting music from a 500,000-song library based on your preferences. Pandora Media’s free app has a simple interface, effortless navigation, and a thumbs up/thumbs down button that helps determine how your station will evolve over time. Users can bookmark any song or artist, as well as purchase songs from the iTunes Store.—BB Read our ...

Pandora Radio 2.0 Released for iPhone
iPhone Journal — ... into by your ratings and plays that type of music.  Version 2.0 includes lots of great new features… Tab album art to see progress bar, create a station from the current song or artist, or email this station to a friend. View album art backside to see artist bios. Rotate to landscape to see recently played songs. Play song samples fro all your song bookmarks. Create stations based on Genre Check out Pandora Radio or go directly to the app in the iTunes Store. ...

Pandora 2.0 for iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchPandora's app was one of the iPhone's best of 2008 on iTunes, and while I've only recently started using it, I have to agree: even over EDGE, it's a great way to get some music you've never heard on the iPhone. And they aren't sitting on their laurels, either -- they've just updated the app to version 2.0, and it's better than ever. New in this version is the ability to access a progress bar for the songs you're listening to, and the ...

Facebook for iPhone and iPod touch updated to version 2.1
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... LinkedIn. Facebook is also extremely popular and now, Facebook's client for iPhone and iPod touch has been updated to version 2.1. Among the changes for this update include fewer crashes (that's an important one), corrected timestamps for all time zones, improved sync time and faster loading of the inbox. It's also worth noting that Facebook for iPhone and iPod touch requires iPhone 2.2 firmware. Other iPhone and iPod touch apps updated recently include Pandora, Things, Darkslide, Lists and the trifecta of iSteam, ...

Variable iTunes pricing and the future
Macworld — ... the hope that it may drive a stake through Amazon’s musical heart. It’s also purchased a measure of cooperation from the music industry. And in a time when consumers’ listening and buying habits are starting to change, it needs that cooperation. And by that I mean this: Taking a swipe at music subscription services, Steve Jobs once famously said that people want to own their music rather than rent it. In a world where music enthusiasts are increasingly turning to services such as Pandora and ...

Popular Web radio giant Pandora implements ads
jkOnTheRun — There has been quite a buzz today over the appearance of ads on Pandora’s Web radio streams.  Pandora has been trying to stay afloat with super-high music licensing fees and felt the need to include a minor number of audio ads between some songs. We have mentioned numerous times how we love Pandora and use it all the time, both at the desktop and on the iPhone.  We say to Pandora- do what you have to do to keep us listening to your fantastic streaming music.  We’ll support you all the way. You can pay for a premium Pandora service for $36 per ...

Sirius App For iPhone Coming, And What That Says About Satellite Radio
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — Sirius App For iPhone Coming, And What That Says About Satellite Radio Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 29 Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I really like satellite radio. I was an early customer of XM, but switched to Sirius when a year’s worth of the service came included with a new car. Now that their programming lineups are mostly integrated following their merger into the combined SiriusXM, you don’t have to feel like you’re missing anything. It’s great to have in the car, especially on long trips, but I’ve never really taken to playing it anywhere but the car. I didn’t really want to spring for a second ...

Pandora revs iPhone app to version 2
The Apple Core — February 8th, 2009 Pandora revs iPhone app to version 2 Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 9:59 pm Categories: App Store , Music , iPhone , iPod touch Tags: Apple iPhone , BIOS , E-mail , Digital Music , Digital Media , Hardware , Components , Online Communications , Personal Technology , Consumer Electronics pandora on iphone Pandora ( iTunes ) is easily one of the most compelling applications on the iPhone, bar none. For the uninitiated, Pandora is an ...

Palm pulls the plug on Palm OS, bets future on Pre’s webOS
Macworld — ... , a lightweight, text-based data interchange format that can be used in place of XML, to connect with an array of device services and features. Though the name "webOS" can suggest a browser-based program, webOS applications install and run on the Pre itself. The combination of webOS and Mojo really does live up to Palm's development claims, according to some software partners. One of them is Tom Conrad, Chief Technical Officer for Pandora Internet Radio , who described ...

Review: NoteWorthy for iPhone
Macworld — by Kevin Ho , Macworld.com We all have our own little ways to discover new music. Some of us browse artist recommendations on Last.fm , others skip through personalized radio stations on Pandora , and with the release of iTunes 8 , the Genius sidebar is always just a click away. Still, one of the best ways to find out about great new songs and artists still remains one of the oldest - plain, good ol’ word-of-mouth. That’s the idea behind NoteWorthy , a “listening to-do list” made by developer Roy Kolak . Instead of always having to pull ...

This year’s free SXSW music flood
Macworld — ... up a flare via Twitter whenever they run across a great (or, better yet, free ) deal on music—the idea being that this music would be terrific on a Sonos, but anyone with a computer can enjoy it. For this reason, those of you using Twitter may want to follow @Sonos . Music jones still not satisfied? Last June, Webupon published Music Rule 2: Top 45 Music Websites That Deliver The Greatest Free Music . It’s a great list that includes not only such usual suspects as Pandora , Last.fm , and the Live Music Archive , but a host of sites you’ve ...

This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #30- GMail and Safari 4
jkOnTheRun — ... I have been using Pandora to listen to streaming music a lot this week, I sure love this service.  I have a dozen “stations” programmed with artists I like and Pandora never fails to play me like music that tickles my ears.  I got a great example of this when Pandora played the theme song from the old TV show “Taxi”.  That song is so great and distinctive and I found I was immediately awash with a feeling of nostalgia for the old days.  It was amazing how strongly that song affected me and I would never have heard it except for Pandora. ...

BlackBerrys Gains Two More Streaming Radio Apps
jkOnTheRun — ... . Pandora is supported on the Curve, Bold and Pearl but it varies by carrier, so check and see if your BlackBerry can use it. T-Mobile customers need not apply for some reason; sorry Om, your ...

Boxee alpha boasts API, Hulu-stomping browser and Pandora
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Boxee is having a massive meet-up in NYC tonight and is unveiling a new version of the alpha that brings more features, some Hulu manageability, and a new API. Fire up the update function in your Apple TV or OS X copies of boxee and get in on the fun! Tonight's new release brings in some new features and workarounds to existing services: The excellent music service, Pandora, is now built-into boxee, using the new boxee API Speaking of the API, it should now be easier than ever for users to contribute ...

Boxee Adds Pandora Radio and Hints at the Future
TheAppleBlog — ... The Pandora feature is absolutely brilliant. I had a chance to play with it for a while on Tuesday; it is the full Pandora experience on a 10-foot interface. You can log in to your account, select any of your channels, give a thumbs up or down, skip a song, and even create a new channel. I cannot begin to tell you how cool it is to listen to Pandora on my home theater sound system with the song information displayed on the big-screen TV, all thanks to boxee on the Apple TV. Driving this software with the free boxee remote iPhone app just makes it that much sweeter. Pandora on ...

AT&T Loses Its Mind with New TOS
Mac|Life — ... also seems to run afoul of the new terms. We're also concerned that Pandora could be a no-no with its ability to "maintain continuous active internet connections when a computer's connection would otherwise be idle..." There is a whole host of apps this could potentially hurt. Robb Topolski over at ...

Computerworld: Will Apple kill satellite radio?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Sirius/XM, but the newly merged companies have done plenty to shoot themselves. Many subscribers think the merger was badly done, and many favorite channels were killed with no notice. As an XM subscriber I experienced that first hand when no heads up was given to customers about massive channel changes until the day of the switch last fall. For a communications company, that's pretty poor communications. With an iPhone that can stream stereo Bluetooth, services like Pandora, LastFM, AOL Radio, and Simplify Media become more mobile in the ...

Pandora App for the iPod Touch
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com — ... To get the Pandora app for the iPhone or iPod Touch, go to their official website http://www.pandora.com/, or visit the official App Store. Installing is easy, and there is a detailed FAQ that tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how to work the Pandora. ...

Livio Radio: Pandora Streaming Without the Computer
jkOnTheRun — ... about Pandora, the streaming audio service that is uncanny at only pushing music I like to my waiting ears. I run Pandora on every computer I use and most phones I use too. ...

MacVoices #965: Paul Kafasis Introduces Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch
MacVoices — ... well as his new career as a Twitter philosopher. Links: Chuck Joiner on Twitter Paul Kafasis on Twitter Rogue Amoeba on Twitter Airfoil Speakers Touch in the iTunes Store Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes Apple AirPort Extreme Dual-band Base Station Sonos Multiroom Music System Pandora One Little Article by Paul Kafasis on the Inside iPhone ...

The iPhone Is Accelerating Music Sales For Pandora
TechCrunch — Pandora is a company that mainly makes its money through advertising deals on its streaming Internet radio service. But a growing portion of the business is also affiliate downloads of songs that users hear on Pandora and want to buy on either iTunes or Amazon’s MP3 service. And the biggest mover accelerating growth in that regard are downloads taking place on the iPhone. Users are buying about a million songs a month now from these affiliate links on Pandora, CTO Tom Conrad tells me. Of those, a solid 20% are coming directly from Pandora’s iPhone app, which includes an easy ...

Subscriptions, Sonos, and the Second Coming
Macworld — ... away from my computer… well, I’m away from the computer so can’t access Rhapsody. Then along comes the Sonos system and it completely changed the way I listen to music and use subscription services. Because the Sonos units attach to speakers throughout my home, I’m not tethered to my computer—music fills the house, not my office, as Apollo intended. And because they stream music not only from my iTunes library but from services such as Rhapsody , Napster , Pandora , and Last.fm (as well as Internet radio streams) I’m never at a loss for ...

Sirius-XM iPhone app coming 'real soon'
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... The satellite company has been in financial difficulties and has been losing subscribers faster than it is signing up new ones. The weak economy and drop off in new car sales are an especially tough environment to grow the business. The merger of XM and Sirius was generally thought to have been handled badly, and many people dropped their subscriptions, which has given a boost to internet radio and services like Pandora and ...

With An iPhone And Android Strategy, Imeem Mobile Pushes Past A Million Users
TechCrunch — Imeem has a great Android app. In fact, it’s still one of the few very good apps available on that platform as it continues to find its legs. It’s so good that we gave it a Crunchie this year. But as good as it is, it took the application coming to the iPhone platform to push the company past a big milestone: 1 million mobile platform installs. Imeem Mobile for the iPhone, which we were the first to report on back in May right before it launched, already accounts for 1/3 of Imeem’s mobile users, we’re told. It’s been consistently in the top 5 ...

SweetFM brings tasty Last.fm integration to your Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... and Pandora to find new music, listen to a mix of related artists, or just play something random. My problem with streaming services is twofold: I don't like having to have a web browser open and I like to be able to easily switch songs, pause playback or even go back to iTunes. For Pandora, the excellent ...

Review: Sirius XM for iPhone/iPod touch sans Stern
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... At any rate, the app works, and works well for the channels that it does have. You'll have to decide if it is worth the money versus free music apps like Pandora, ...

Web Radio Agreement Reached- Pandora is Safe
jkOnTheRun — I use Pandora almost every day to stream music to my computer while I work. I sometimes use it on the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3G too. I love the steady stream of music it feeds me that always seems to be music I like. It’s kind of like a psychic radio station that knows exactly the music I will enjoy. I have been concerned for a while that the battle over music royalties would put Pandora out of business, but the good word today is an agreement has been reached between web broadcasters and the music business. According to ReadWriteWeb, Pandora and other web radio companies ...

Cheaper music royalties pull Internet radio back from brink
Macworld — by Chris Brandrick , PC World Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Geek Tech blog at PCWorld.com . The future is looking bright for various Web-based radio services such as Pandora , Blip.fm and CBS-owned Last.fm . A new long-term solution for music services, such as Pandora, includes the reduction of more than 40 percent in the royalties formerly paid by such music-streaming sites to the record industry. The previously high royalty rates had been widely blamed for the looming collapse of Web ...

$50 Portable HD Radio Comes to Best Buy’s Insignia Line
jkOnTheRun — ... , Pandora, and even satellite radio. More vehicles are getting configured with easy to use auxiliary jacks, USB ports and Bluetooth too. Is it too late for HD Radio to become a major player? ...

Music streaming chips away at illegal file-sharing
Macworld — by Brennon Slattery , pcworld.com The following article is reprinted from the Today@PC World blog at PCWorld.com . Online streaming music services such as Pandora , YouTube and Groove Shark are slowly chipping away at piracy, according to reports from the U.K. Though it’s unlikely these free streaming sites will obliterate the drive to swap music via peer-to-peer networks, this news should come as heartening to music executives long plagued by those pesky iPod-wearing teens. Music Ally teamed with sister consumer research company The Leading ...

MacVoices #986 - Pandora Founder Tim Westergren Discusses Their Royalties Victory and Recent Service Enhancements
MacVoices — ... on Pandora; Tim explains why, reviews their position at the intersection of musicians, the music business and users, and talks about how to get your music included on the service. Links: Chuck Joiner on Twitter The MacVoices Group Pandora Radio on Twitter Tim Westergren on Twitter Pandora Radio Blog, including Tim’s post announcing the royalty agreement Pandora One Pandora Mobile Pandora app in the ...

Slacker Portable Radio Thunders Onto Every Verizon BlackBerry Storm
jkOnTheRun — ... Slacker claims to have to have four times more music than the nearest competitor, which I take to be Pandora. That’s one advantage, but I think a larger one is the ability to cache music. Slacker can do it, while Pandora can’t. As much as I enjoy Pandora, I’m hoping to see a Slacker app for the Palm Pre ...

Midomi music search gets strategic funding and opportunities
iPhone Atlas — ... Larry Marcus, from the VC firm Walden Venture Capital, has previously put money in music companies Pandora and Snocap. He came by recently to talk about his latest music investment, Melodis, which makes Midomi, a cool service that recognizes music it hears (over speakers, or just when you hum it), so you can identify a song you want to know more about, or buy it. (See also: Shazam.) The business model of Midomi is straightforward and attractive, especially now that there's an iPhone version of it. The free app can sell ...

Sonos remote for iPhone and iPod touch does it all
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Audio, Multimedia, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review, MusicIf you're lucky enough to have a Sonos music system in the house, you've got lots of music everywhere. The Sonos is a deluxe, wireless distribution system that integrates beautifully with iTunes, and can get your music, Sirius Radio and Pandora, Last.fm, Napster, Rhapsody and Deezer to any room where you have a Sonos Zone player. It can also access more than 15,000 internet radio stations. ...

Up close with the Sonos Controller 200
Macworld — ... isn’t the best deal around, but I still cling to it for its selection. Pandora remains one of the world’s greatest free music resources. ...

Super-safe Web browsing
Macworld — ... -> Security); I use 1Password for that. I use Firefox for general browsing and commerce sites such as Amazon , but I don't use it for sites where I'll have to enter extremely sensitive personal information (such as banks) or sites that I know to be extremely risky. For those, I use some of the more stringent measures outlined below. Because Safari is harder to lock down than Firefox, I use it for sites that are neither sensitive nor risky, such as Wikipedia , Pandora , and Apple . These are sites I visit frequently, where I don't want to deal with ...

Why Rhapsody’s Music Subscription App for iPhone Will be Approved
jkOnTheRun — ... and Pandora already have applications in the App Store. Like Rhapsody, these services offer streaming music direct to your handset. The main difference is that both Slacker and Pandora do so for free — Rhapsody offers their “to go” service for $14.95 a month. That might be considered an issue since Rhapsody would make money on the iPhone while Slacker and Pandora don’t. But that leads into the second reason why I think Rhapsody will find approval. ...

Real Networks submitting Rhapsody music service for iPhone. Duck!
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... The Rhapsody app is designed to stream music over 3G, EDGE or Wi-Fi networks. If approved, it will require a Rhapsody To Go account, which is US$15.00 per month. Spotify, a similar European music service, also has an app awaiting approval for the iPhone. Apple already allows the Sirius/XM app, which is a different, but still a paid subscription service, and of course Pandora, Last.fm and other streaming music services. All these apps are competition to iTunes, so the world will be watching to see if Apple draws the line with ...

Sirius SkyDock Turns iPhones into Satellite Radio Receivers — Sorta
jkOnTheRun — ... I opted to kill my XM satellite radio subscription last year in favor of using Pandora and my own MP3 library, but this new SkyDock from Sirius has me considering a return. ...

Pandora One Desktop App Gets an Update
jkOnTheRun — ... the streaming audio service Pandora many times, and the Pandora One subscription service, too. I listen to Pandora One every day using the desktop app, and it has just received an update to version 2.0. It’s not a major update but it does add a much-needed progress bar so now you can tell where in a given song you are. You can also access your song history and see what you’ve been listening to for the past hour. Both the progress bar and history are accessed by clicking on the album cover in the main window. ...

Where Is Pandora for Android?
jkOnTheRun — ... No worries, I headed to the Pandora Android web site and found that it is indeed out for the Android platform. In fact, the HTC Hero on Sprint is specifically supported. ...

Slacker Radio shows off next round of music apps
iPhone Atlas — ... The second catch? No firm release dates yet. Slacker hints that all three apps will pop into being by the end of 2009, but the streaming music site that competes with Pandora and ...

Create a floating Pandora Radio widget-app
MacOSXHints.com — After reading in MacWorld about creating a standalone video playback widget, I thought I could apply the same technique to create a Pandora radio widget that stays open all the time. I created a web clip in Safari, selecting the relevant portion of the Pandora site. Then I followed the directions in the MacWorld article (also in this hint) to enable the removal of widgets from Dashboard. I then opened Dashboard and started dragging my Pandora widget around, and pressed F12 to close the Dashboard, which transferred the widget to the Desktop. The widget will ...

Beyond iTunes: streaming music services
Macworld — ... in iTunes). Some streaming services such as Pandora and Last.fm are available for free. Their operation is supported by advertising and they don’t allow you to choose the specific tracks and albums you want to listen to. Other, commercial-free services such as Rhapsody and Napster, require that you pay a monthly subscription fee. But for that fee you can listen to exactly the tracks and albums you choose. These services shake out this way. Pandora Billed as a “new kind of radio,” Pandora is a streaming service that plays music based on artists and tracks you choose as well as ...

Hands on: Roku's updated Player software and new Channel Store
Macworld — ... use.” With Monday’s announcement, Roku has updated the Player software with a new Channel Store , including ten initial channels, that lets users easily add additional content sources. These channels, focusing on independent and user-created media, are blip.tv video publishing, Facebook Photos , Flickr , FrameChannel photo sharing and viewing, the Mediafly podcast aggregator, MobileTribe , Motionbox video sharing, Pandora Internet radio, Revision3 Internet television, and TWiT.TV . All ...