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RIM Media Relations let us know that later today, select U.S. BlackBerry Beta Zone users will be invited to tune in to BlackBerry Radio, an upcoming radio discovery app. Rocking out to radio on your BlackBerry has never been easier! This app is a one stop shop for downloading your favorite radio services. Whether you’re in the mood for pop, rock or jazz, your radio stream is just a click away!
Key features of BlackBerry Radio include:
o Access popular internet and terrestrial radio services like Slacker, Pandora, Clear Channel, and Corus in one place
o Quickly browse genre-based radio stations
o Enjoy seamless integration with your BlackBerry smartphone for quick and easy access to BlackBerry radio partners and the Amazon MP3 storefront
o Try premium radio apps within BlackBerry Radio for free
o Just start rockin’! No set-up required
For more information on BlackBerry Radio, go to http://blogs.blackberry.com/2011/02/blackberry-radio. Select BlackBerry Beta Zone members will be invited to join the initial beta program
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Slacker, Inc. announced the expansion of its free unlimited Basic Radio service to all Canadian listeners. Initially offered as a 30-day trial, Slacker Basic Radio is now available for free indefinitely offering Canadian music fans all the benefits of Slacker Personal Radio. The Slacker music experience is available on the web at www.Slacker.com and as a free app for leading smartphones including: iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm webOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7.
Slacker Radio provides Canadian music lovers with the ability to create their own personal radio stations or listen to and personalize more than 100 expert-programmed genre stations, including select stations programmed by Canadian DJs such as Today's Hits, to provide a uniquely Canadian perspective. Users can also read artist bios and album reviews, while viewing artist images and album art. The Slacker music experience includes station fine-tuning, enabling listeners to choose between hearing newer vs. classic tracks and popular vs. fringe songs. The Fine Tune feature also allows listeners to adjust the frequency that favorite songs play as well as the amount of artist discovery on custom stations. In addition to marking songs as favorites, listeners can also ban songs and artists or make their own stations with their favorite artists to create a truly personalized radio experience.
Canadian users now have unlimited access to free Slacker Basic Radio with the option to upgrade to Slacker Radio Plus. Slacker Radio Plus features all the same great benefits of Slacker Basic Radio along with station caching for supported mobile devices, ad-free listening, complete song lyrics, unlimited song skipping, song requests and more. Station caching enables mobile listeners to store their personal stations on selected smartphones for listening anywhere, anytime, uninterrupted and without incurring data charges while playing.
"Turning Canada on to personal radio earlier this year was a giant milestone and the ability to expand the free Slacker Radio experience beyond the 30-day trial period is another exciting step forward," said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker. "Whether it's from the web or a smartphone, Slacker takes the work out of listening to your favorite music and discovering new artists wherever you want."
Slacker Personal Radio is the first and only personal radio service available for Canadian listeners. Slacker has agreements in place with key content owners providing listeners in Canada with a deep catalog of music for expert-curated Slacker genre stations as well as the ability for listeners to create their own custom stations.
Slacker Basic Radio:
- Create custom stations based on artists or songs
- No monthly listening limits
- High-quality stereo playback from any available wireless connection
- Over 100 professionally programmed and customizable genre stations
- View artist biographies and photos
- View album art and reviews
- Pause and skip songs
- Rate songs as favorites
- Ban songs and artists
Slacker Radio Plus
- Cache stations to leading smartphones and listen even without a wireless network
- Unlimited song skipping
- Ad-free listening
- Complete song lyrics*
- Unlimited song requests for creating stations
- "Peek Ahead" artist and album preview
- ABC News station and headline news updates for any station
Pricing and Availability
Slacker Basic Radio is available for free on the web and as a free download for leading smartphones. Look for the Slacker application in popular mobile application stores or visit www.Slacker.com from your mobile browser to be directed to the free download. Slacker Radio Plus is available for as low as CAD$3.99 per month. For additional details, please visit www.Slacker.com.
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I am an avid user of iheartradio and it has been updated to Version 2.3. Very nice app and if you ever listen to any Clear Channel AM stations, live in a rural area where AM reception is not that great this is a great solution. These stations include AM and FM stations from across the country as well as commercial-free channels and artist-programmed channels from Christina Aguilera, Weezer, Megadeth & Eagles.Reboot is requited after installation.
Version 2.3 includes:
* More than 750 of America’s favorite local radio stations, celebrity-hosted  channels from Christina Aguilera, Eagles and Weezer, local traffic reports and exclusive videos
* Improved load time, performance, and stability
* Commercial-free premium content from America’s favorite talkers: Sean Hannity, Dr. Laura, Jim Rome and Bob & Tom
* Favorites: Now you can set a station to play automatically at App launch; Toggle between favorite stations and songs
* Offline mode allows users to listen to podcasts without connectivity
* Ability to toggle/skip ahead on downloaded podcasts
* BlackBerry 0S 5.0 compatibility
Get the OTA link emailed to your BlackBerry by going HERE!
OTA link HERE!
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Stitcher Radio is available for many BlackBerry Devices and as of today they are now available for the Blackberry® Storm 2™ (9520 and 9550). Additionally, this update will support all BlackBerry touch-screen devices running BlackBerry OS v.5.0. The update is available as a free download
WHY USE STITCHER…
It’s time that Radio gave you what you want, when you wanted it! With Stitcher Radio, you can stream your favorite podcasts and radio programs ON-DEMAND. Stitcher “stitches” together your favorite news, talk, and entertainment audio into always current stations. It helps you discover new shows, and stay current with your favorites.
Stop using separate apps to hear your news from separate sources. Stitcher offers a one-stop-shop for listening to your favorite shows from the top sources and helps you fit that listening into your schedule.
FEATURES…
• Play on-demand stations sorted by Topic or Source
• Use Bluetooth – works in the car & mono/stereo headsets
• Build a custom ‘Favorites’ station by selecting and ordering your favorite shows
• Rate shows to help Stitcher tailor your listening
CONTENT…
• The Top Providers: NPR, CNN, CNBC, PRI, APM, CBS, MSNBC, WSJ, ESPN, IGN, Apple, Bloomberg, Politico, Slate, Fox News, and so many more…
• The Most Popular Shows: Mac OS Ken, TechCrunch, Adam Carolla, Leo Laporte, The Moth, and any others you can name
You can get Stitcher Radio from BlackBerry app world HERE!
Or Download OTA by going HERE!
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Slacker Radio 3.0 in now available for BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion. Music lovers can now cache their favorite Slacker stations wirelessly directly to their BlackBerry smartphones to enjoy personalized radio on-the-go regardless if they are still connected to a  wireless network or not. Slacker Radio for BlackBerry 3.0 is available today by visiting Slacker.com from a BlackBerry® Browser.
With Slacker Radio 3.0 and a Slacker Radio Plus subscription, music enthusiasts using a BlackBerry smartphone can wirelessly cache their favorite stations simply by selecting “Cache Station” from the menu within the application. Listeners can choose to manually cache their favorite stations or use “Auto Refresh,” enabling BlackBerry smartphones to automatically wake during overnight charging and refresh station content, providing new music daily with no additional effort.
Cached stations are stored on the memory card of the BlackBerry smartphone and can be played on subways, planes and all destinations in between with no network drop-outs and minimal battery usage. Along with station-storing capabilities, Slacker Radio Plus features ad-free listening, song lyrics, unlimited song skipping, unlimited song requests and more.
Listeners of the free Slacker Basic Radio service will be able to play cached stations for up to 14 days, providing the opportunity to try the full benefits of station caching on their BlackBerry smartphone, risk-free.
Slacker Radio 3.0 for BlackBerry smartphones:
* Updated interface
* Faster application startup time
* Significantly smaller application size
* Improved touch interface for BlackBerry Storm
* Greatly improved battery life
* New settings menu options
* Tabbed info view for lyrics, reviews and biographies
* Context Aware – click a highlighted artist name in a text message or email to enable direct launch of a related Slacker station
* Create custom stations based on artists or songs
* View album art and photos
* Rate songs as favorites
* Ban the songs and artists you don’t like
Slacker Radio 3.0 with Slacker Radio Plus:
* Wireless station caching – listen to Slacker Radio without a Wi-Fi or mobile network connection
* Greatly improved battery life on cached station playback
* Auto Station Refresh – effortlessly updates cached stations overnight
* Unlimited song skipping
* Ad-free listening
* Complete song lyrics*
* Unlimited song requests for creating stations
For Download and additional details via desktop or BlackBerry go HERE!
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Wunder Radio provides a quick and easy way to listen to thousands of global streaming Internet radio stations and other audio streams on your  BlackBerry® smartphone, no subscription required. Install and immediately browse the enormous directory of stations provided by RadioTime, searching by location and over 400 different genre such as music, talk, sports, and entertainment.
* Listen to your local hometown radio station from anywhere in the world
* Find specific stations using the extensive search function
* Use GPS capabilities to generate a list of all local stations
* Keep up-to-date with international news and current affairs
* Listen to live commentary and sports talk
* Build a list of your favorite stations and shows
* Play a wealth of archived programs
* Check emergency scanner streams from ScanAmerica.us
* Check weather conditions on local NOAA weather radio streams
* Get local railroad information from RailRoad.net
Compatible with BlackBerry 8300, BlackBerry 8310, BlackBerry 8320, BlackBerry 8330, BlackBerry 8330m, BlackBerry 8350i,, BlackBerry 8900, BlackBerry 9000
A version for the Tour and Storm will be available soon!
Availability: All Countires
**FREE 10 DAY TRIAL**
Price 9.99
You can pick it up from BlackBerry App World HERE!
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Didiom is now available for free on BlackBerry App World. Also, Didiom has expanded public beta to include wireless streaming of audiobooks and podcasts.
Press Release Excerpts:
“Launching Didiom on the BlackBerry App World is a giant step forward for us in reaching the rapidly-growing BlackBerry community,” said Ran Assaf, Didiom’s founder and CEO. “Didiom doesn’t only eliminate the need for synching your iTunes library with your phone via USB; it also shifts the paradigm on how we mobilize our home computer’s media library. When you wait for a flight, stand in line at a busy Starbucks, or walk your dog, you can easily access your computer from your phone and stream anything from the latest audiobooks you’ve downloaded from Barnes & Noble to the latest podcasts you’ve downloaded from CNN, The Wall Street Journal, or ESPN.”
Didiom’s hybrid service is built upon the company’s proprietary, placeshifting technology and wireless content delivery platform. Throughout the beta period, Didiom offers a free mobile application for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones, as well as a desktop application that seamlessly scans users’ personal computers, and maintains an encrypted channel between the user’s computer and phone. When users add new audio files to their computer, Didiom’s desktop application automatically scans and makes them available for wireless streaming on their phone.
Available on these Devices:
BlackBerry® Tour™, BlackBerry® Bold™, BlackBerry® Curve™, BlackBerry® Pearl™, and BlackBerry® 8800 series. As a bonus, all new users will receive 25 free, pre-selected songs from up-and-coming artists, ready for download to their phone and PC/Mac.
Full Press Release is HERE!
Already have BlackBerry App World? Search for Didiom.
To get BlackBerry App World go HERE!
Didiom Home Page HERE!
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With over 1,500 live music and talk stations FlyCast 2.0 is the 1st mobile streaming application to offer wireless station caching and cover flow on every station. It’s the only streaming app that will let you pause live, skip forward, and even replay – FOR FREE!
Press Release Excerpts:
Version 2.0 of the company’s popular BlackBerry application, available today, offers an enhanced listening experience by presenting music stations in a track-based cover flow, enabling in-application music purchases and providing time shifting skip-ahead and skip-back functionality. FlyCast 2.0 solves many common mobile music challenges – significantly reducing battery drain and cellular data usage charges, improving the listening experience, and making it easy to buy songs, even after they are broadcast.
FlyCast 2.0’s caching technology allows users to enjoy the following features:
* 3 Plays/30 Days –Cached content is maintained in the context of the station and can be kept for a maximum of 30 days or three plays, whichever occurs first;
* In-Application Purchasing – Users can purchase tracks with the click of a button from within the application, even after the song has been broadcast;
* Twitter integration — Users can Tweet or “recommend” songs they like from FlyCast. Links are then posted to their Twitter account and followers can click on the link from any Twitter reader and be immediately taken to that station and hear the entire song.
Pricing and Availability
FlyCast 2.0 is available as a free download on a supported BlackBerry device and has been submitted to the BlackBerry AppWorld store and will be available there shortly. The free version allows unlimited streaming. Users can also choose from two, one-time only premium upgrade fees that offer station caching — $9.95 for five hours and $19.95 for 20 hour versions, good for the life of the device. This one-time pricing model is unique in the industry. Individual tracks from the cached stations can be purchased at any time from within the FlyCast application.
FlyCast 2.0 supports the BlackBerry Storm, Bold and Curve
Full Press Release with additional details HERE!
You can pick up FlyCast 2.0 on your BlackBerry by going HERE!
To download FlyCast via Desktop by going HERE!
FlyCast Home Page HERE!
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This new version of Pandora has a bunch of cool new features, one that many people have been anxiously waiting for is improved audio quality. While we have had stereo AAC+ over Wi-Fi for a while, our mobile stream has been constrained to mono AAC – until now!
We’ve just switched the mobile streams over to AAC+ in our servers. If you are using an older Pandora client (1.0.3 or earlier) then you will be getting the “Normal” quality AAC+ stream (32 kbits). Once you upgrade to 1.10, you will have access to both the “High” quality AAC+ stream (64 kbits) and the “Normal” stream (in case your mobile connection isn’t fast enough to keep up with the high quality stream).
New Features
* Significantly better audio quality over mobile network – now using stereo AAC+ (HE-AAC) for both Wi-Fi and mobile connections
* User preference option to select “High” quality stream (64kbit) over mobile network or “Normal” (32kbit) for slower connections. Default is 64kbit. Wi-Fi (if available) will always use 64kbit.
* Create Station screen now has auto-complete functionality as you type
* Added user preference option to enable or disable station auto-start
* Moved “Log Out” from main menu into Options screen, it now shows the currently logged-in username
* Visual overlay when changing volume, more easier to see actual volume level
* Application will check for correct application permissions on startup, and offer to set them to appropriate values if required
* You can now get to the “Options” screen from the menus of both the Station List screen and the Now Playing screen
* Storm: Downward swipe gesture on the Now Playing screen will dismiss the current visual ad (if any)
* Reduced download size of app by about 30-40%
Bug Fixes:
* Fixing problem on some Storm devices where song started over from the beginning after being interrupted by a system alert (phone call, SMS, email, etc)
* Fixed bug where Wi-Fi capable devices without a SIM card or data plan were not able to use Pandora over Wi-Fi
* Fixed reports of “low volume” settings not being low enough – the lower volume settings now go as quiet as possible before being muted
* Fixed bug where album art may not have been displayed for some tracks
* Mute button should now properly sleep the device when holding it down
To download to your BlackBerry® go HERE! http://www.pandora.com
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