radio

Jobs: Video, Bluetooth, radio, 3G iTunes? Unlikely

News Bluetooth connectivity or a radio -- a common feature in Windows MP3 players -- are even more unlikely additions to the iPod feature set, senior Apple execs revealed today. Believe it or not, we don't get a lot of requests from customers" for a...

21 September 2005, 11:33

Radio station takes podcasts to public airwaves

News Radio station operator Infinity Broadcasting has announced it plans to launch a podcasting station in San Francisco. The company, a division of Viacom, said on Wednesday that content created by listeners will be available at 1550 KYCY on the AM...

28 April 2005, 16:23

News.blog: Pandora revamps MSN radio

News Microsoft's MSN has turned to music-upstart Pandora to recycle and rev up its free online radio service. In the last week, MSN quietly re-launched its online radio service powered by Pandora, a music recommendation engine that lets people create...

23 November 2006, 9:17

Digital listening growing whilst radio is slipping in the US

News An increasing number of people are turning to computers or portable players for music, even though traditional radio still leads the competition, a recent market study in the US has indicated. The study also found that online radio stations had...

16 May 2005, 12:07

Handhelds to play satellite radio, digital books

News Handheld devices that can play both satellite radio and content downloaded from the Web are set to debut next year. The devices -- the expected product of a deal announced on Tuesday between US companies Audible and XM Satellite Radio -- will play...

8 June 2005, 9:37

'Visual radio' headed for US mobile phones

News 'Visual radio' is coming to the US -- and no, that's not just a newfangled name for a TV set. Radio giant Infinity Broadcasting is working with Hewlett-Packard to bring a kind of Net-enabled FM radio to US markets, sending information such as album...

21 April 2005, 20:17

Ofcom frees up radio spectrum

News The British government, including the Ministry of Defence, will be able to share or trade some of the most valuable radio spectrum in the country under new guidelines being drawn up by the UK's communications regulator.

Tags: radio, trade, country, services

1 February 2008, 9:23

BBC expands Web 2.0 service

News The BBC has developed a prototype personalised content service for its Radio 1 Web site, with the aim of enabling users to receive and create tailored packages of content. Alternatively users could put together their own badges using Radio 1...

3 May 2007, 12:16

DAB to carry TV to mobiles

News The digital radio standard DAB has been revised, allowing it to be used for the transmission of mobile TV via Internet protocol (IP). The managing director of BT Movio, Emma Lloyd, said on Tuesday that DAB-IP's approval supported BT's view that "we...

12 July 2006, 10:25

Old TV spectrum creating wireless world

News Mobile and other operators will be able to take advantage of radio spectrum freed up when the shift to digital television takes place between 2008 and 2012, according to Ofcom. Lower power wireless apps such as home Wi-Fi and wireless microphones...

20 December 2006, 8:52

New generation abandons TV for Internet

News A new 'networked generation' is increasingly abandoning TV, radio and newspapers for the Internet as falling prices and greater choice boost high-speed broadband adoption and mobile phone usage among UK households, according to telecoms watchdog...

11 August 2006, 11:05

NATO tests RFID to stop friendly fire

News NATO has been testing technologies, including radio frequency ID tags, to try to reduce casualties from friendly fire. One of the technologies being investigated is radio frequency tagging, according to Lieutenant Colonel Tony Sobrero of the US Air...

21 October 2005, 10:04

AOL to profit from Live 8 lesson

News AOL and the XM Satellite Radio networks are teaming up with a major concert promoter for a new live music content venture. Radio and promotion giant Clear Channel Communications has purchased a patent on the process of producing CDs from live shows...

13 July 2005, 10:22

Mobile networks bid for larger spectrum

News Mobile phone networks will be able to bid for a bigger share of the world's radio waves in a new international treaty that could spur innovation in wireless technology. In such cases, countries could allow more mobile technology in their high...

20 November 2007, 8:39

Online advertising creeps past magazines

News Online advertising raked in £1.3bn last year and is now worth three times the radio advertising market, Ofcom's annual report into the communications market has revealed. Overall, from 2001 to 2005, radio consumption fell by 24 minutes a week...

14 August 2006, 11:11