According to SIRIUS Backstage, the latest issue of the Crutchfield catalog points to a September availability date for the much-anticipated SIRIUS Stiletto 100 portable listening device. Apparently, a full list of features will be available on the Crutchfield website by September 1st and the device will be listed at around $350.
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Comments recently made by SIRIUS CEO Mel Karmazin point to a late-year release date of in-car satellite video broadcasting. Karmazin says that deals are close to being done with television providers that will sure up available television content for automobile receivers.
The idea (as it always is with automotive video equipment) is to [...]

You would expect a phone that only weighs 100 grams and is only 13.5 millimeters thick to be a stripped-down, essentially featureless example of the most pragmatic trends in consumer electronics. The recently released Samsung SCH-B500, however, is not only this small but also has all the features that are becoming increasingly standard on [...]

A June study of 2500 people from the ages of 12 to 54 conducted by randomized digital dialing showed that good old-fashioned terrestrial radio is still the place where people are most likely to go to hear new music. 45% of respondents indicated that free terrestrial radio is their main and preferred source of [...]

Word on the street–the street where all the tech-heads and business geeks like us live–is that there is a merger in the works between satellite TV providers DirecTV and EchoStar. This same merger was shot down by the FCC and the Justice Department about five years ago on the grounds that it was anticompetitive. [...]

A Wall Street Journal article describes how cable and satellite TV companies are beefing up their offerings of Spanish-language programming packages to win more Spanish speaking customers in the U.S.:

Pricing and other terms vary. Cablevision, for example, offers 31 channels in Spanish for $4.95 as an add-on to regular cable service. Dish Network’s Dish [...]

For those who are curious about how satellite TV works, there is a good summary in our Satellite TV section. However, if you really want to know what’s going on up in the sky, in the dish, and in your TV set, you can find a more thorough article here:
How DirecTV Works.
Warning, this [...]

Audiovox, KVH and RaySat are each debuting new technologies that will allow users to surf the internet from their cars.
RaySat is showing the new SpeedRay 3000, a low profile, 5.7-inch satellite TV system that can also provide two-way high-speed Internet access via satellite. It then uses Wi-Fi to stream the Internet signal into the vehicle [...]

TV that censors itself? Well, sort of.
DirecTV is offering a new family package. At $34.99/month, the family-friendly package includes 40 channels, each more cuddly than the last. Toon Disney and CSPAN are among the channels available in the package.
The satellite companies are following the two largest cable companies, Comcast and [...]

When the MyFi portable satellite radio player debuted, it was almost $400. Today, you can purchase the MyFi Xm2Go for only $139.99.
After a highly competitive holiday season XM is not letting up its fight, and hardware, specifically the portable sat. radio receiver, is one of XMs biggest levers. Now [...]