Dealzmodo Review: The $300 Sonos Rig

My wife loves Fresh Air with Terry Gross. By searching for the show in the Radio section, she can not only find out when it's on next, but can listen to recent shows in full, at a much better sound quality than those damn Audible downloads, for zero money. She can also search for different radio s...

Lightning Review: Logitech's Squeezebox Boom All-in-One Network Audio Player

The Price: $300 The bottom line is that there isn't much to complain about with the Squeezebox Boom. I mean, it beats the hell out of an iPod dock, that's for sure. The UI could have been a bit better and it may be a bit pricey for some at $300, but all in all this is a great little machine. [Logitech]

BoomCooler: A Portable Party in an Ice Box

Throw in a cooler, some speakers and mix with a little hillbilly inspiration and you have yourself a BoomCooler. Billed as "the ultimate portable entertainment system," the BoomCooler makes it easy to roll your tunes from one party to the next thanks to some fancy wheels and a handle. It als...

Best of Sirius/XM Launching October 6th

To XM customers who've been jealous of Howard Stern content and Sirius customers who've always wanted to tune in to Oprah & Friends (a remarkably high crossover demographic we're sure), the newly wedded Sirius/XM has revealed their cross-content "best of" packages available for...

Logitech Squeezebox Boom: A Squeezebox Streamer Attached to Quality Speakers

Upon registering your Squeezebox Boom network music player, you can access thousands of radio stations and millions of songs, aggregated by SqueezeNetwork™ – Logitech’s free, online service – without having to remember Internet addresses or passwords. So you enjoy an optimized wire...

CEO: Fully Merged Sirius XM Devices To Hit Shelves In Q1 2009

When Sirius and XM finished their merger dance it was said that they would be able to offer interoperable radios—that is units that work with the full lineups of both XM and Sirus—within a year of the merger. Then they told the FCC they'd have devices within nine months. Now Mel Karmazin, CEO o...

Sirius and XM Officially Married, Now Sirus XM Radio [Sirius Xm Radio]

With the FCC's approval, Sirius and XM had a shotgun wedding over the weekend, and is now officially Sirius XM Radio, with over 18.5 million subscribers (technically XM is a subsidiary of Sirius,...

XM-Sirius Merger Nears Approval, Comes Down To One Commissioner's Vote

And here she is. After FCC commissioner Johnathan Adelstein withdrew his support today, the vote is now deadlocked and awaiting the yea or nay from Deborah Taylor Tate, a Republican who is expected to approve the merger so all of this can finally be over and done with (something tells me a la...

Sirius Starmate 5 Coming With XM Support? [Satellite Radio]

Sirius' update to its Starmate line, the Starmate 5, is currently in front of the FCC for testing, and it looks like it might have a little trick up its sleeve. The gadget includes the standard...

Sirius Starmate 5 Coming With XM Support?

Though the function to grab sweet sounds from its partner-to-be isn't listed in the Starmate 5's spec sheet, a memo between a testing firm and the FCC authorization staff hinted at Sirius XM interoperability. In a letter asking the testing firm to do another bandwidth test, the FCC said th...

Cowon Q5W DivX/GPS PMP Review (Verdict: Fantastic) [Divx Compatible Pmp Review]

The Verdict: The Q5W is super rich in features and plays back loads of video and audio files. It's fast, but kind of heavy, and is on the borderline of being pocketable (assuming you don't wear Bruce Springsteen jeans circa 1985). The GPS features are awesome for a PMP, and should make this a de...

TiVo Adds Several Thousand Music Choice Videos On Demand [TiVo]

By combining the TiVo interface with Music Choice content, TiVo has quickly emerged as the entertainment platform for music lovers. TiVo subscribers will be able to browse through a variety of music genres using TiVo's easy-to-use and intuitive search interface, breezing through Mus...

Hype Sheet: Sirius Plays the Bones, Yells "Domino!" [Hype Sheet]

Mission Accomplished? Sirius is right in one sense: the future of music may well be rental. The current 99-cents-per-song model is going to have problems once access to the celestial jukebox goes under $10 per month. What Sirius is offering is a step in that direction; the only problem is th...

Hype Sheet: Sirius Plays the Bones, Yells "Domino!" [Hype Sheet]

The Spin Sirius is at a major crossroads right now, as it tries to seal its merger with XM—a merger which still awaits that all-important regulatory approval. Part of Sirius's rationale for why the merger should go forward is that there's plenty of competition nowadays from a myriad of sou...

CompUSA Black Friday Ad Features Computers, Video Games, and Loads More [Dealzmodo]

Apple 16 GB iPod Touch - $399.99 Apple 1 GB iPod Shuffle - $79.99 Apple 4 GB iPod Nano - $149.99 Apple 80 GB iPod Classic - $249.99 Apple 8 GB iPod Nano - $199.99 Apple 8 GB iPod Touch - $299.99 Emerge iPod All-In-One Kit - $9.99 iPod Cases - $21.99 iTrip FM Modulator For iPod - $34.99

Sizemodo: Sirius Stiletto 2 vs Original Sirius Stiletto

That's because it takes the extended battery on the old Stiletto to get the same battery life that the new one gets right out of the box: 4 hours of live satellite radio, 10 hours of Sirius Internet Radio over Wi-Fi and 20 hours ...

Sirius Stiletto 2 is Officially Official

Hinted not so long ago, the Sirius Stiletto 2 is the official sequel to Sirius' first portable player, the Stiletto. As with the new Sportster, the Stiletto's feature set has remained basically unchanged, keeping the Wi-Fi and SD MP3 playback of the original, while now supporting up to 10...

NAB President: XM-Sirius Merger "Not About the Consumer"

This next clip is Mel Karmazin, familiar to some of you as the CEO of Sirius satellite radio, testifying before Congress recently. As you will see, he is attempting to define moving from two companies to one company as a merger, not the duopoly to monopoly that it is.

XM-Sirius Merger Update: Price Increases, No Content Mix Yet, Joe Consumer in Danger?

•This merger is nothing at all like the proposed merger between DirecTV and Dish Network since those companies were only competing against pay services (cable TV) whereas satellite radio is competing against free radio. I guess this means that my over-the-air HDTV antenna isn't real. Wh...

XM & Sirius Satellite Merger in a Nutshell

Consumerrs tried to complain about the local Comcast monopoly, but the FCC says it's not a monopoly since satelite cable is available to everyone in the nation. Consumers have other radio options besides xm- regular and HD. hipersons.

XM and Sirius Officially Merge

Mel Karmazin (head of Sirius) will be CEO while Gary Parsons (head of XM) will be ... a load of new channels when you turn your satellite radio on tomorrow. (Damn!) But the world of satellite radio will get interesting regardless. ...

NY Post Sez XM and Sirius To Merge. No, Really.

The highly reliable New York Post reports that XM Satellite Radio will merge with Sirius Satellite Radio as early as today. Comment

XM + Sirius = Oh Wait, It's Not Going to Happen

So why not allow them to merge, cut costs, and in all odds, pass that on to customers, who then only have to deal with one, uniform satellite radio device? (I think they're more akin to two competing standards, such as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, than they are to traditional radio stations to be regu...

Rumormill: XM, Sirius Merger Announced Today?

Supposedly yes, according to the sources at theflyonthewall. An announcement of a merger between the two largest satellite radio companies, XM and Sirius, is expected to be announced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit later today. I still unsure if this would be a go...

Eton Sound 101 Sports Sirius, iPod Dock

Dropping Monday is Eton's new iPod/Sirius lovechild, the Sound 101. It comes equipped with built-in Sirius satellite radio, AM and FM tuners alongside a traditional iPod dock. The sleek, sexy box (available in black, ...

Dealzmodo: 20% Off the Entire Sirius Store

Pardon my fanboyism, but the coolest of the cool, Sirius, is having a store-wide 20-percent off sale. Want to upgrade your receiver? Pick up another? Pick up a home kit? Maybe give one as a gift? Just use the coupon code HOLIDAY20 at checkout for the discount. The sale ends on December 31. (Avoi...

Sirius Stiletto 100 Reviewed

Sirius Stiletto 100 Reviewed (Verdict: I am One Disappointed Fanboy) [Portable Media]

Jump to find out why I—the biggest satellite radio fanboy in the world—was disappointed with the Sirius Stiletto. Listening There are three options for listening to Sirius Satellite music: through satellite, Internet or recorded/saved music.

CEDIA 2006: First Look at Monster's Einstein Intelligent Home Control System

Pardon the low-quality picture above, they wouldn't let me get any closer (I think because they were non-functional units, disguised as functional units). Astro: The Astro is a SIRIUS satellite radio tuner capable of 3-zone. Meaning it can stream three separate stations in different ro...

SIRIUS Stiletto Preorders Suspended, Smells like Trouble

The SIRIUS Stiletto has been available for pre-order on many sites for a while now, but today in a shocking turn of events, SIRIUS has asked retailers to suspend pre-orders. At first thought you would think it is a supply issue, correct? Nope, not according to the initial sources checked. Th...

First Sirius Stiletto Promo Video

Slashgear's got one of the first Sirius Stiletto 100 Promo Videos. Looks like they're emphasizing that it's portable, can do internet radio, record 100 hours of stuff, and play your own Coldplay songs. Could be an internet ad, but I guess they could go ahead and put this on TV as well.