When connected to a Pioneer navigation receiver, the user's top stations become radio preset buttons to enable convenient control of stations just like a traditional radio.
Sagem Orga was on the floor of MWC this week, a company that really doesn't typically draw a lot of attention outside wireless industry suits who fly out to Barcelona to broker deals -- at least, not until they do something totally insane like stuff a WiFi radio into a SIM card.
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"It's like what old-fashioned radio was like back in the '50s, in a sense, when radio was very responsive... to what listeners liked, " Gillett says.
AudioTron will compete with a growing number of devices like Kerbango, a stand-alone Internet radio appliance that plugs into a standard phone line and streams audio content.
As a result, hearing news about Enron today feels like hearing a golden oldie on the car radio.
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Grainy images of viewers stream in from New York or Guam and get screened and stacked like calls for a talk-radio show.
He points out that Apple would be an especially deadly partner in the radio race because it has already stored ample listening data from its music-recommendation engine that could power a Pandora-like radio stream.
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Also debuting: a Pandora-like user-programmable Internet radio service called Smart DJ, which includes unlimited skips and a view of the full recommended music stream.
Television and radio often seemed like a solid wave of slogans, jingles, appeals, attacks.
This might just sound like something a simple chat over the radio can resolve, and normally it would be.
The company has attracted considerable attention in recent weeks for the re-launch of iHeartRadio, which provides links to Web versions of its broadcast stations, along with a Pandora-like user programmable radio service.
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It is NOT like having a real conversation. (Live TV and radio interviews are slightly more like live conversations, but even still they are not exactly the same.) In a real conversation, you have context, you understand the context and usually your audience understands the context.
Media playback was a big thing on display, with the car able to aggregate music from multiple sources, like a generously sized internal HDD and Slacker Radio.
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This is far more efficient than conventional public safety radio networks because it acts like cellular to optimize the use of radio channels which are now a scare commodity.
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IBiquity's list of investors reads like a who's who of the broadcast radio cabal: The Walt Disney Co.
Like a mobile phone, it can even be carried around and used from other points within radio range of a service provider's base-station.
Like Radio Shack this company has to find a new strategy in order be profitable and to have the opportunity to grow.
Radio was abandoned like the bones at a barbecue.
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So as far as radio is concerned a potato looks more like a human than a mannekin does.
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While it was at Radio City Music Hall, it felt like a Consumer Electronics Show demo writ very large.
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"With this new data, it now looks like we have a fairly solid object, " says Near radio science team leader Dr Donald Yeomans.
"He landed on John Brayford's foot in training, and his ankle went up like a balloon, " caretaker manager Dario Gradi told BBC Radio Stoke.
"We'd like to have played a lot better, " Hull told BBC Radio Bristol.
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As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside.
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Also discovered was Radio Five, a Monty-Python-like spoof by Eric Idle.
Scott Horton joked on his radio program that it must have been like showing a card trick to a dog (in the words of Bill Hicks).
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