One of the neatest things we saw at last year’s CES was Ion Audio’s line of iPad-docking keyboards. This year, the company is displaying a new version on the CES showroom floor that looks like a big improvement; it was enough to take home a “CES Innovations Design & Engineering Showcase Honors 2012″ award. Ion…
Slacker hopes to make your internet radio more like traditional AM and FM radio — but not in a bad way. At CES on Tuesday, the company announced that it will carry not only programs from American Public Media including “Marketplace” and “The Current,” but also a full-fledged station from The Weather Channel that carries…
The more the Consumer Electronics Show changes, the more it stays the same — and by “it,” we mean the internet-enabled refrigerator that can inevitably be found somewhere on the CES showroom floor. I’m half-convinced that these things only exist to give tech reporters a reliable oddity to write about each year as an example of…
Lenovo, known primarily for making high-end Windows laptops, has set its sights on the living room with two television sets that will run the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, known alternatively as Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich. According to GigaOm and Lenovo, these will be the first televisions ever to run Android 4.0…
The motto of this website is “evolving music past the play button” for a reason: Music players have brains now, so they’re capable of more than just duplicating the linear playback of music, which the MP3 copied wholesale from physical music formats. Listening to songs the same way they were recorded isn’t going away, of…
Normally, early January is the time when the heart of a young (okay, not so young anymore) tech reporter brims with anticipation for the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES for short, in Las Vegas. CES rose to prominence following the collapse of Comdex, which was brought down by computers transforming from complicated machines that people…
Pandora announced last month that it has registered over 80 million users since chief strategy officer Tim Westergren, right, founded the company slightly over a decade ago. That’s a lot of people, considering that Pandora is only available in the United States, with a population of about 307 million. But how many of those accounts…
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month featured a surprising lack of in-dash car systems that can run apps. Instead, the auto industry’s current preferred approach is to run apps on a smartphone instead, but allowing drivers to control those apps using their car’s controls and screens. It’s a decent solution, and…
LAS VEGAS NEVADA — Pandora has officially hit the mainstream — and the highway. In an exclusive interview with Evolver.fm, Pandora founder Tim Westergren rattled off some amazing statistics about his ten-year-old music streaming service before taking us on a test drive on the Las Vegas strip in order to demonstrate the app’s solid integration…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Verizon really will start selling iPhones this year, according to multiple sources, but Evolver.fm heard a fascinating, credible detail involving the Verizon iPhone’s release date. The CDMA/GSM chips that would be required by a dual-network iPhone are apparently already in “initial production,” which will ramp up in February and March, setting…
Like Ion’s iDJ Live, the company’s Piano Master hardware uses the iPad as the brains for a hardware music device: in this case, a piano with super powers. In addition to the standard piano sound, Piano Master includes a nice variety of sounds you can play instead, from strings to chorus to fuzz synth, with…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Music apps on the smartphone are the most promising delivery system for music since Napster, and much to the delight of forward-looking music fans, it’s now possible to stream music from those apps to speakers within the home. Apple’s AirPlay was first out of the gate, Google is expected to follow…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Apple notoriously spurns the Consumer Electronics show every year, but that doesn’t stop manufacturers from touting all sorts of gear designed to work with Apple’s devices. Take this Numark iDJ Live, for instance — a hardare peripheral for the iPad with two turntables and a mixer, which controls a DJ app on…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — “Music should be heard and not seen,” a late friend used to say, but now that so many of the devices with which we listen to music have screens, even he might change his mind. It’s no surprise that music videos have enjoyed a resurgence due to those screens, but that’s…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – The MOG on-demand music service announced another key hardware partner in its quest to become America’s favorite music subscription: a partnership with Verizon that will see a MOG music app pre-installed on Verizon’s 4G LTE phones. Unlike Nokia’s Comes With Music phones, which pioneered the concept of bundling a music subscription…
