With the rise of Internet radio, The Wheel’s Still In Spin is introducing a new weekly feature. Every Monday, we list the recent online news articles about the future of Internet radio.
With the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, there are more announcements of new WiFi radios and devices than breaking news about Internet radio development. One of the announcements that garnered a lot of media coverage was the first in-car Internet radio (which was announced last week).
USB Turntable Inventor to Unveil Company, Radio Products
The Business Wire reports, “The future of commercial-free FM radio and easy-to-use Wi-Fi Internet radio will go live in Las Vegas during the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show. With two exciting new devices for music lovers looking to avoid lengthy instructions and operational hassles, USB turntable inventor Jake Sigal’s own start-up company, Myine Electronics, LLC... introduce their exciting new Abbee Commercial Free FM Radio and Ira Wi-Fi Internet Radio products to the consumer electronics world.”
Pandora Internet Radio Upgraded to 2.0 for iPhone
Wireless and Mobile News writes about some of the new features of the upgraded Pandora app for iPhone. “New features include a song progress bar, 30-second previews for bookmarked songs, the ability to create a new station from a song or artist, artist information, cover-flow view for song history, and some sharing features. Artist biographies also show up inline now. You can also rotate to landscape to see recently played songs.”
With Pandora’s success with the iPhone app, more companies are partnering with the Internet radio company, including Prodea and sonoro
New WiFi Radios/Devices:
Acoustic Research
AWOX
BridgeCo
Cobra
Frontier Silicon
Reciva
VTech
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