Pandora has this week announced its financial results for the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, and things are looking good for the popular music streaming service, with a total revenue of $80.8 million. That represents a 58% increase year-over-year, which is hardly surprising with a 53% year-over-year increase in the total number of

The HTC Sense user interface is one of the most popular skins for Android, and one of the main reasons why Android users become attached to HTC devices. Sense 3.5 works wonderfully under the Gingerbread operating system, providing users with a seamless link to all of their favorite features directly from their home screen. So

It’s been another blockbuster year for the seminal iPhone. Even after enduring a longer than normal product cycle, demand for the device is still at an all time high. According to Reuters, Apple was on pace to sell around 28 million iPhones during 2011′s final quarter alone – a 70 percent jump from a year ago. Whether

It was bound to happen. Spotify announced on Friday its very own radio application that offers unlimited stations and an unlimited number of song skips. Users will have the ability to save any song to a playlist or play it again on demand. Pandora’s free and paid services only allow users six skips per station

There’s no argument that anywhere-anytime digital music streaming is a huge benefit in these modern times. But even so, some of us can’t help but fondly recall the old days, when music sharing hinged on something a bit more tangible, personal and soulful — the mixtape. Well-executed ones were able to take listeners on a

At 2PM EST on November 9, broadcasters across the country were scheduled to test the first nationwide alert system. Triggered by the White House, the system would’ve warned the masses in the U.S. of looming widespread emergencies — like, say, attacks by foreign enemies or other national disasters. Seems to me, in times of peril,

The Kindle Fire release is getting oh-so close (less than a week!), and with that we’ve got some good news coming out of the Amazon camp. Users who plan to pickup the hotly anticipated device will have a bevy of apps – popular ones – to choose from. In fact, Amazon is promising several thousand

As rumored, reported, and otherwise wished-upon-a-star for, Sonos recently debuted their smallest, lowest-cost receiver to date, the Play:3. Part of a brand makeover, Play:3 slots in alongside the Play:5 (formerly S5) as the company’s two self-contained wireless receiver/speaker/amplifier products. In a nutshell, Sonos is a networked music system that lets you stream local or Web-based

On Monday, I was shipped out to the Big Apple to cover a Jane’s Addiction concert sponsored by LG, including an opportunity to interview the band about whatever I wanted. As a teen that was vacuumed into the grunge and rock vortex of the 90’s, I was beyond elated to not only see Jane’s Addiction

So why is everyone so excited about Spotify‘s way overdue launch in the U.S.? After all, we have no lack of music streaming services here. Well, it pretty much blazed a trail in Europe, where it is still hugely popular. Unfortunately, the Swedish-based music-streaming company seemingly took forever for it to negotiate the deals it

After what seems like an eternity, Spotify, the music service that took Europe by storm, has finally launched in the United States. There were rumors, false starts and dashed hopes aplenty when it came to if this music service would ever come to the United States, and there was even an extended exclusive private beta

As with seemingly all good things, Turntable.fm has come to an end for users outside of the United States, at least for now. Earlier today users of the Turntable site outside of the United States were greeted by the following message: We’re very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock

This week Pioneer launched AppRadio. The in-dash unit connects with and uses the processing power, storage capacity, and network connectivity of your iPhone or iPod touch. Once connected, the 6.1-inch screen can be used to listen to tunes stored on your phone or streamed from Pandora and rdio, used to help you get to your

This weekend I finally got around to checking out Turntable.fm—and I’m totally addicted. I’m a huge Pandora nut, just because I like listening to and discovering new music that I might not otherwise. Turntable is in many ways just a manually run version of Pandora. The site is broken up into a variety of different

Pandora, the popular streaming Internet music service, has filed the paperwork necessary to take itself public. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Feb. 11th, it was revealed that Pandora was intending to issue shares of common stock of itself in the near future.  According to the filing, the company now

Pandora has grown to be one of the leading streaming music services in the United States due to its ability to build intelligent stations for you from simply telling it a song or performer you like.  You enter the information, it plays a song to ask you if this sounds like what you want, and

With the amount of music out there today, you would think it would be easier to discover new bands. The problem is, unless they are on a major label, and have some sort of pop hook, it is highly doubtful you’ll be able to hear them on the radio, so how do you find new

It would seem the days of listening to any song you want streaming from an online site may be coming to a rapid close if Warner Music Group gets its way. According to the BBC, Warner Music Group has decided that it has had it with the idea of ad-supported music streaming services that allow

If you’ve just got a brand new iPhone or iPod Touch for the holidays, sifting through the App Store is no easy feat. We’ve wrangled ten free applications that are sure to secure a spot on one of your many app screens. The whole list is below! Facebook Since its debut in the App Store,

Go to Pandora, and you can listen to streaming music to your heart’s content.  You can do the same with Last.fm.  Blip.fm will work also.  And then you can load up Spotify and … oh, wait, that only works in Europe so far. While we fully understand that Pandora is not available outside of the