…the most desired feature was the ability to connect an iPod or other MP3 player to the vehicle… [MORE]

Source: Radio Ink

Industry experts say that radio can embrace technology and sustain its popularity. Growing sales of digital sets worldwide certainly lend strength to that theory. [MORE]

Source: BBC News

…Radio Paradise, Slacker Radio, College Radio Tuner, and Tuner Internet Radio are four applications that, in principle, do exactly the same thing: stream Internet radio to your iPhone or iPod touch. But, while they’re designed to perform the same task, each of these apps has a completely different focus. [MORE]

Source: Macworld

Pandora founder Tim Westergren thinks being broad isn’t necessarily the best strategy for development in the smartphone industry and that betting on a single (what he calls a “hero”) platform could be the way to go. Hint: it’s not a Blackberry or Google’s Android. [MORE]

Source: Wired

This sweet new app, which debuted just three weeks ago (and was previewed back in November), is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. It lets me easily pick whatever public radio station that I want and stream it live. [MORE]

Source: Macworld

The portable music revolution has only been with us for a few years, but we may already be on the cusp of the another paradigm shift: With smartphones becoming commoditized — and with so many excellent music apps being designed for them — it’s becoming viable to leave your MP3 player at home and tune into the cloud. [MORE]

Source: Wired

Hungry for some Slacker streaming radio on your iPhone? The BlackBerry app just became available earlier today, and it looks like they’re already prepped to go live on Apple’s finest. [MORE]

Source: MobileCrunch

Another advance Ford is promising is the ability to synchronize applications from mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone with the car. That would mean, apparently, being able to run applications like Pandora, via the iPhone, by using control buttons on the car’s steering wheel. Similarly, it should be possible for drivers to get access and manipulate their Facebook or MySpace accounts using voice commands. [MORE]

Source: cnet

With music and content available almost everywhere, how does the radio industry compete? The average person, with little effort, can receive a huge variety of music, talk, and information on their computers, mobile phone, GPS devices, and now through their car stereos. Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a new car radio that will not only receive AM and FM radio, but also connect to thousands of internet radio stations. Should the radio industry be concerned or are the multitude of devices and technologies too confusing for the average person?

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As if being the No. 1 free iPhone app of 2008 wasn’t enough for Pandora, it has launched version 2.0 of its app just six days into 2009. [MORE]

Source: cnet