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There’s been a decent amount of noise lately about Motorola’s iRadio product, which was first “launched” back in February, that the company is planning to “unveil” again. iRadio looks to bridge the gap between online radio, PCs, mobile phones and home and car stereos. It will let users download pre-recorded commercial-free “stations”, then play them [...]

US radio giant Infinity Broadcasting says it plans to launch visual radio in the US beginning early next year. Visual Radio is a product developed by Nokia and HP that has a mobile data channel that runs alongside a standard FM broadcast, offering users additional content relevant to what’s being played, including song titles and [...]

UBC Media, a UK analog and digital broadcaster, says it’s investing in technology that will let digital radio listeners download music at the push of a button. Listeners would simply push a button on their digital radio, and the song playing would be downloaded and transferred to their PC. The news is short on specifics, [...]

Napster said this week it now has 410,000 subscribers, though it didn’t provide a breakdown of subs to its regular streaming service versus Napster To Go, which lets users transfer music to compatible portable players. The Register rightly highlights Napster CEO Chris Gorog’s interesting statement, “We were also delighted to see that our new Napster [...]

Major League Baseball fired up again yesterday (with a nice win for the Reds ), accompanied by a couple of streaming audio announcements. MobiTV says its audio broadcasts of MLB games are now available on US carrier Cingular — for $10 a month plus data charges (with the $25 per month unlimited plan “recommended”). And [...]

We noted a couple weeks back that one analyst had predicted ringback tones would become a multi-billion dollar business in the next several years, and wondering if that was being overly optimistic. Alas, it looks now like others are skeptical, too, given the slow acceptance of the service in the US. But never fear, it’s [...]