Stream terrestrial radio to your iPhone or iPod touch. [MORE]

Source: Macworld

The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the rate that digital-music stores, such as iTunes and RealNetworks’ Rhapsody, must pay music publishers. [MORE]

Source: CNET

Apple has threatened to shut down the iTunes music store if an obscure three-person board appointed by the Librarian of Congress increase the royalties paid to publishers and songwriters by six cents per song. [MORE]

Source: Wired

What is radio going to look like in the future? There are a lot of opinions, both positive and negative. One strong possibility is that radio is going evolve into something new and exciting – something beyond terrestrial and satellite. A new breed of smartphones are on the streets and shaking things up, including radio. Are you ready for Radio 2.0?

With T-Mobile launching it’s iPhone-like G1 based on Google’s Android software, more mobile music applications will be in the hands of the general public. This new breed of smartphones are intuitive and feature rich. It doesn’t take the average person very long to learn how to navigate and use many of the powerful features these devices provide, including music related apps that are a very popular application category. With Pandora, Last.fm, and the ability to access a multitude of radio station’s streams, more and more people are finding that radio transmissions aren’t the only way to get the music they like. Smartphones still have issues with connection speeds, battery life, etc. but eventually these issues will be worked out.

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will officially take on Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday. [MORE]

Source: CNET

The owner of the world’s largest music company is predicting a return to growth in the industry as new ways of making money from legal digital downloading come to fruition. [MORE]

Source: Financial Times

No one knows exactly when Apple commercials morphed into musical tastemakers, but being featured in an Apple ad doesn’t just turn musicians into household names — it often translates to a substantial increase in sales. [MORE]

Source: Variety

Wouldn’t it be great if you could tune into a radio station that played only the music you like? Now you can with Pandora Radio. One of the most highly rated applications on the App Store, Pandora Radio delivers a “FREE personalized radio” station to your iPhone. Pandora Radio broadcasts 24/7, and if you switch applications or take a call, Pandora pauses the music; then resumes automatically when you return.

Source: Apple