Just in time for Christmas, Microsoft plans to roll out its long-awaited, much-rumored challenger to Apple's iPod, according to The New York Times. One differentiator is it will have Wi-Fi capability to download music without being connected to a PC.
Hopefully, it will go the next step, too - and use that Net connection to stream Internet radio, as I described a few weeks ago. It better.
Bridge Ratings surveyed 4,000 radio listeners and found Internet radio is reducing time spent with conventional radio. 55% said they were listening less to stations on the AM/FM dial. Satellite radio listeners said the same thing, with 36% of them indicating tunes and talk from space have begun to replace standard broadcast. Full report.
Put Internet streaming audio on an iPod-sized gizmo and radio will never be the same.
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