Gizmodo
Lightning Review: Aluratek Wi-Fi Internet Radio Alarm Clock
The Gadget: A Wi-Fi internet radio alarm clock from Aluratek, with over 11,000 free stations worldwide.
More »
Posts Tagged “
Internet Radio
”
lightning review
The Gadget: A Wi-Fi internet radio alarm clock from Aluratek, with over 11,000 free stations worldwide.
More »
The Gadget: A Wi-Fi internet radio alarm clock from Aluratek, with over 11,000 free stations worldwide.
More »
design
Iona Radio Cube Means You Physically Flip Through Stations
This Wi-Fi radio concept design from Cambridge Consultants is a rubber-edged plastic cube. Four of the sides are assigned your four favorite stations via a web interface (maybe some of you have more, but frankly, I think four about covers it for me). The minute some annoying commercial or crap song starts playing, you just roll the Iona over to the next channel. Gizmag says adjusting volume requires twisting the cube itself to the right (up) or left (down), though I'm not entirely sure what that means. The fifth side houses a mono speaker, and the sixth has a non-roly-poly on-off switch. [Gizmag via Ubergizmo]
slacker
Slacker Streaming Net Radio Player Limited Trial Units In the Wild
We just talked to the guys at Slacker who told us that they've offered trial test units to people who've pre-ordered. Here's our hands-on video from November in case you wanted to see what the thing was all about. [Slacker]
Everyone now and then, politicians do offer a glimmer of hope: Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) wag their fingers at SoundExchange for using royalty negotiations as leverage to push DRM on webcasters. [Ars Technica]
surprise, surprise
SoundExchange Possibly Overstepping Its Bounds With Illegal Lobbying
It looks like internet radio's favorite fee-collection organization, SoundExchange, might be playing hard and fast with legal limits on how it can spend collected money. Not on the list of three kosher uses (full legal mumbo-jumbo post-jump) is lobbying and PR. But Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk noticed that it appears to be engaged in both. More »
one step forward, two steps back
Internet Radio May Survive, But Only With Lots of DRM
The imminent death of internet radio due to unreasonable licensing and fee hikes might not be so imminent, at least as long as radio stations are willing to pile the DRM onto their streams as demanded by SoundExchange. Wanting to end the practice of "streamripping," the equivalent of the fair-use-sanctioned practice of taping songs off FM radio, SoundExchange is hinging their compromise proposal on the adoption of DRM technologies by all internet radio stations. It's good news that there's a better chance of stations staying on the air, but the fact that they need to inhibit fair use to do so is pretty weak. [Ars Technica]
field notes
Today in New York, Tivoli Audio founder Tom DeVesto unveiled plans, what he called "five years worth of work," for two Internet radios modeled after the company's successful Kloss Model One and SongBook radios. The Kloss Model One look-alike will be called NetWorks, and the SongBook-styled one, shown above, will be the NetWorksGo. Price has not been announced, nor has a ship date, but the company is aiming for this fall. More »
Tivoli Audio Introduces NetWorks and NetWorksGo Wi-Fi Internet Radios
Today in New York, Tivoli Audio founder Tom DeVesto unveiled plans, what he called "five years worth of work," for two Internet radios modeled after the company's successful Kloss Model One and SongBook radios. The Kloss Model One look-alike will be called NetWorks, and the SongBook-styled one, shown above, will be the NetWorksGo. Price has not been announced, nor has a ship date, but the company is aiming for this fall. More »
grassroots
Attention DC-Area Giz Readers: SaveNetRadio Rally Tonight
Bored on a Monday night in our nation's capital? Tonight you can stop on by Upper Senate Park at Constitution and Delaware Avenues at around 6:30pm for a rally to save Internet radio from destitution at the hands of the money-hungry Copyright Royalty Board. If you haven't kept up with the controversy but you do desperately feel the need to get in good with the technohippie set, you can brush up on it with our backlinks. Just be sure to memorize the rallying song: "All we are saying, is give House Resolution 2060 and Senate Bill 1353 calling for a 2006-2010 royalty rate similar to that paid by satellite radio (7.5% of revenue) a chance." More »
breaking
Pandora Hits Sprint Phones and Sonos Remotes
Right at this moment, a bunch of music fans are sitting in rows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Wattis Theater, eagerly awaiting the fate of Pandora, the cult-hit semi-customizable Internet radio service. What are they about to hear? That Pandora is teaming up with Sprint and Sonos to get into mobile and household gadgets, and is also introducing a new online interface for the free service. Why should you care? Mobile Net radio has been in the non-existent to sucky range, and a lot of people enjoy Pandora in Web form. At least until Slacker's many promises are realized, this is the biggest step in mobilizing Net radio to date. More »
12:00 AM on Wed May 23 2007
By Wilson Rothman
9,811 views,
14 comments
Latest by define2000: Nice IPOD looking phone. Thank god for apple's ideas, other companies wouldn't have a clue! more »
grassroots
Senate Introduces Net-Radio Bill; Pandora Asks Giz Readers to Keep Bugging Congress
The Senate today introduced a bill to prevent outlandish increases in net-radio royalties, a companion to the bill proposed by the House of Representatives last month. I decided to check in with Pandora's founder Tim Westergren again to see how he and his fellow webcasters got such sudden political clout. More »
from the government-backed-mafia dept.
SoundExchange Collects Internet Radio Royalties for Every Artist, Even Non-Members
Amidst the uproar over the egregious royalty rate hike for internet radio stations, engineered by RIAA-spinoff SoundExchange and handed down by the Copyright Royalty Board, we missed a detail we should have noticed. Some commenters suggested simply listening to music under non-restrictive licenses. But apparently that won't work."The recent U.S. Copyright Office ruling regarding webcasting designated SoundExchange to collect and distribute to all nonmembers as well as its members. The Librarian of Congress issued his decision with rates and terms to govern the compulsory license for webcasters (Internet-only radio) and simulcastors (retransmissions)."More »
save the music
Proposed House Bill Kills Internet Radio Royalty Rate Hike
A new bill in the House sponsored by Reps. Jay Inslee and Donald Manzullo, dubbed the "Internet Radio Equality Act," would neuter the CRB's much-maligned royalty rate hike, setting rates at 7.5 percent of revenue—the same rate satellite radio broadcasters are charged. The new rate would be in effect from 2006 to 2010 and would be assessed according to the same standards as satellite radio. More »
copyright royalty board
Pandora Co-Founder Gives Two Reasons Why Royalty Decision Sucks
We asked Pandora's co-founder, Tim Westergren, if he would like to discuss the decision of the Library of Congress's Copyright Royalty Board to uphold its decision to charge new crippling rates to Web-based broadcasters like Pandora. Tim responded: "I think there are two main points that would be great to make, both regarding dangerous perceptions floating around right now." More »
internet radio
Internet Radio Rebellion Crushed: CRB Upholds Royalty Rate Hike
NPR's and other webcasters' efforts to roll back the crippling royalty rate hike for Internet radio stations have been gutted. A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board denied their appeal, holding up "the original CRB decision in every respect," though a slight reprieve was granted in allowing stations to pay royalties based on "average listening hours" rather than per play through 2008. More »
riaa
NPR Says F$%! the RIAA, Albeit in an Erudite, Strongly Worded Letter After Some Tea
NPR isn't taking too kindly to the Sound Exchange-drafted royalty rate hike for internet radio stations. The burn? The new rates are "at least 20 times more than what stations have paid in the past" and treats public radio "as if [it] were commercial radio," though it's unable to bring in extra revenue to meet higher costs.Also, the fee for internet radio is "vastly more expensive" than the over-the-air license, despite the smaller audience. In response, "NPR will pursue all possible action to reverse this decision," starting with a petition to the royalty board. More »
home entertainment
Yet Another Reason to Boycott the RIAA
The Copyright Royalty Board has decided to accept the "per play" royalty rates proposed for internet radio channels by the RIAA's digital music
home entertainment
Acoustic Energy WiFi Internet Radio Tunes in Stations Around the World
The Acoustic Energy WiFi Internet Radio links up with your wireless network and communicates directly with the Web, sucking up practically any Internet radio station in the world. There are 5000 stations already preprogrammed, and then you can add your favorites. And heck, you don't even need your PC to join in the fun. More »
sirius
