Tag: SLACKER

Slacker Radio has announced that it will have an application for the iPad out before the end of January. The app will feature artist bios, album reviews, artist images and full-size album art. It will also naturally work with Slacker's newly unveiled on-demand streaming plan, called Slacker Premium Radio. This will give you on-demand access to Slacker's entire song library, top charts, and station ...

On my desktop, I'm a Grooveshark user -- but there's no Grooveshark app for Windows Phone 7 yet... so where does one turn for custom-tailored streaming tunes? Why, Slacker Radio, of course! Search for a band, tap their name (Volbeat, for example), and Slacker begins buffering your first track and looking for other songs it thinks you'll like -- which you can like or ban while they play. Tap ...

Earlier this week, I wanted to see what it feels like to be an American online -- you know, to explore all of those websites only Americans get to play with, like Hulu, Pandora, and Slacker. So I signed up for a high-speed proxy service and started cruising around. What I discovered was actually quite a letdown. It turns out that both Pandora and Slacker have really, really irritating commercials ...

After months of detailed (and no doubt painfully boring) discussions involving copyright issues, Slacker Radio is now on the air in Canada! The news was announced today in an official post on the Slacker website. In addition to accessing Slacker via the web, mobile options are also now available to my Canuck brethren - Blackberry and Android apps are ready to rock, and the iPhone version is ...

Slacker the internet radio for people who are, uh slackers, or too weary to create playlists for their tunes, has just released a desktop app in beta. You can now manage your entire music library and create playlists. (Gasp!) This goes without saying, but only if you want to. You can still be the slacker you were before you downloaded the desktop app. Some neat features of the desktop app are ...

There are untold fortunes to me made in this world, as long as you live by one cardinal rule: never underestimate the laziness of consumers. This is the guiding logic behind a new "intuitive" mp3 player launched by the Slacker Company. Slacker and their new gadget called... The Slacker (creative, no?) are set to be available in June and cost around $150 for a 2 Gig model, and $400 for 12 Gigs. The ...