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Will Internet Radio & Apps Save the Aftermarket?
“Will Internet Radio & Apps Save the Aftermarket?” is the headline in part of a report released earlier this year from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). It notes that while aftermarket autosound has been
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SiriusXM Releases MySXM Personalized Music Beta
SiriusXM is now showing its Personalized Music service in beta on SiriusXM.com. Called MySXM (and sometimes MyControl), it works on the Internet only. It’s available on about 40 channels. Users can adjust a few
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Livio Exits Car Internet Radio Kits
Livio, which makes Internet car radio kits that have been sold through Hammacher Schlemmer, Amazon, Crutchfield and other retailers said it is exiting the car radio kit market. Livio will phase out car kit
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AM/FM and CD Decline as Internet Music Gains: NPD
Consumers who reported listening to music on CDs dropped 16 percent, and the audience for AM/FM radio fell 4 percent over last year, as Internet music listening continues to gain. According to The NPD
Read More »Pandora Listening Hours Up 77% in June
OAKLAND, Calif.–Pandora, the leading internet radio service, announced today new metrics that were reached in the month of June 2012. Listener hours for Pandora during the month of June 2012 were 1.08 billion, an
Read More »12V Web Radio from HTC
Phone maker HTC released a new video showing its Car Stereo Clip in action. An HTC Bluetooth USB accessory automatically flips the HTC phone into car mode where it may access 60,000 web radio
Read More »Livio Connect Wins Frost & Sullivan Award
Livio Radio announced Tuesday hat it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2012 New Product Innovation Award for the Livio Connect API. Livio Connect is a protocol that allows apps and devices to communicate
Read More »In-Car Internet Radio Streaming Skyrockets
Your customers are growing more likely to listen to Internet Radio via the car radio. 50 percent more U.S. adults and teens are listening to online radio streamed in their cars by connecting their
Read More »Ford First to Integrate Slacker Radio App
DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — * Slacker Radio joins the lineup of smartphone apps that Ford drivers can control with their voice through available SYNC® AppLink™ Slacker Radio offers users the widest
Read More »BMW Launches First OEM On-Demand Music Radios Today
Some 2011 BMW and MINI owners can now access the MOG music streaming service that gives you on-demand access to songs from the car radio controls. Pick any of 13 million songs and it’s
Read More »Internet Radio in New Cars on Way with Livio
Internet radio may soon be commonplace in factory car radios as Livio has struck a deal with chipmaker CSR, the leading supplier of Bluetooth chips for autos. Through Livio software, the chips in the
Read More »Harman: 7 of 10 Want In-Car Voice Control
A new survey from Harman confirms what most drivers already know: we want talk-to-type emails, voice texts and many of us even want an “outlet for normal plugs.” 7 out of 10 surveyed say
Read More »Radio Shack to Carry Livio Radio Car Kit
Radio Shack will sell Livio Radio’s Internet Car Kit this holiday, joining Hammacher Schlemmer, which began selling the Kit in October. The Livio Radio Kit will be available in 4,400 Radio Shack locations. It
Read More »A Quarter Use iPod/MP3 Player in Car
A new study provides a sweeping look at gadget use in the car. Conducted in July, it found that 24 percent of us use an iPod/MP3 player to listen to music in the car,
Read More »OE App-Radios to Skyrocket
A study by IHS iSupply said sales of automobiles with Internet radio capability will spike by more than 30X over the next eight years through 2018. And it will create an “explosion” of apps
Read More »Livio Radio Gets Funding from Angel Street Capital
Ferndale, MI – Livio Radio, manufacturer and developer of car Internet radio products and services, today announced Angel Street Capital as a new investment partner. The investment from Angel Street Capital will assist Livio
Read More »How Popular is Internet Radio in Car Radios?
Just how popular are car radios that can control Pandora or Internet Radio? It’s a bit early to draw conclusions, but some indicators are filtering in. Our quick poll of retailers says few consumers
Read More »MOG Music Heading for Cars
Pandora isn’t the only music service attaching itself to radios in new cars. A new MOG “music juke box service” has signed a deal with MINI and expects to be in a dozen car
Read More »Pandora Adds a User Every Second
Pandora is adding on average a new user every second and now has 90 million registered users, up from 80 million in February. People listened to Pandora for 3.8 billion hours in total last
Read More »Pandora to Serve up Comedy
As of Wednesday, Pandora will let you create personalized comedy stations by genre or comedian, in a move which seems to encroach on Sirius XM’s territory. “We’re excited to say that we are officially
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