The device is meant to help push iPhone/Sirius XM compatibility by providing a simple method for listening to satellite radio easily with the download of the company’s official App.

The add-on SkyDock will enable streaming radio through a streamlined gadget, enabling listeners to access music and talk programming from home or within their car.

More details will be unveiled at a New York City press conference taking place this week.

[Via Digital Home Forums]

Finally a bit of good news has arrived for those still hurting from the exclusion of Canadian support with the official Sirius XM iPhone App: an updated edition of WunderRadio.

The developers have announced new details of WunderRadio V1.8 through Twitter, detailing advances in audio support (improved MP3 and AAC buffering), stability, and, perhaps most exciting to those of us north of the border, improved support for the oft-ignored Sirius Canada.

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) App is centred on streaming internet radio stations to the mobile device and is available from the Canadian iTunes Store for $6.99.

[Via Digital Home Forums]

After Orbitcast was able to confirm that news coming from Stern show’s Gary Dell’Abate’s (Baba Booey) Twitter account was, in fact, fake and that the real scoop on Stern’s absence was far less colourful than the rumours suggested.

Stern himself confirmed that his programming was left out due to nothing more than a legal snafu involving some red tape involving rights issues. The fact that Sirius XM still showed Howard 100 as an included channel to investors however makes many still wonder whether Stern’s programming is just delayed rather than ruled out entirely.

[Via Orbitcast]

While the first week of reviews for Sirius XM’s official iPhone App have been mostly positive, many downloaders are still puzzled as to the absence of Howard Stern from the channel listing.

The App has enjoyed almost universal praise and the endorsement of an unprecedented number of iPhone owners but fans are still clamouring for the addition of Stern to the 120 channel line-up.

It seems almost too big of an oversight to credit as a mistake, a fact that makes many observers hopeful that a Stern channel may be forthcoming and that the exclusion is merely due to legal red tape still uncleared.

[Via Orbitcast]

Sirius XM has provided a bittersweet week for Canadian fans of satellite radio, releasing the long anticipated official iPhone App . . . but denying it to subscribers north of the US border.

The iTunes app provides access to 120 satellite radio channels and is available free. It touts all of the features that Sirius XM fans have been awaiting so anxiously and has been marked as the #1 free iTunes download due to immense popularity.

Unfortunately Canadians will have to hope for the acclaimed download to warrant a release apart from the American iTunes App Store if we want to check it out ourselves. Since there has been no official word on a release here in the north we’ll all simply have to wait and keep our fingers crossed.

[Via Digital Home]

After what seems like an eternity of waiting, Sirius XM has finally unveiled the first screenshot of their upcoming, official Sirius XM iPhone application.

The shot (pictured above) reveals fairly little about the long awaited application itself but does give fans a glimpse of what’s to come. Sirius XM CEO, Mel Karmazin gave a presentation regarding some of the functionality that can be expected of the App, highlighting features such as the right-hand detail buttons located next to channel listings and noting a “Shopping” page.

The Powerpoint slides used by Karmazin at the meeting can be viewed through the link belopw.

[Via Orbitcast]

The BlackBerry may be in constant competition with Apple’s iPhone but it has at least won one clear victory for satellite radio listeners with the unprecedented success of the Slacker application.

Since the app launched at the beginning of the year it has gone on to receive over one million downloads, critical acclaim and the archival of a 2 million track+ library. Users have responded favourably to the sound development and design, elevating Slacker’s app to enormous success.

Satellite radio fans still waiting on the official Sirius XM iPhone App may have a bit longer to go but BlackBerry owners appear quite happy with the support they’ve received via Slacker.

[Via Orbitcast]

Satellite radio fans have been waiting nearly a year for promising informaiton on the App and now sources have revealed that the wait may nearly be over.

The program would allow iPhone and iPod Touch users a free download and access of the same service broadcast online from the radio giant. Subscribers would not incur any extra fee (beyond the boosted online rates) for using the App.

[Via Orbitcast]