Some time posterior they debuted on the Web, Internet radio services such as Pandora and Slacker attracted millions of listeners via smartphones.

Andrea Smith shares the newest in Internet radio technology.

Pandora was each early app for the iPhone and Slacker formed a partnership through BlackBerry provider Research in Motion. Last December, Tech on Deck discussed dedicated Internet radio options towards these services, but higher-end home audio systems can deliver them — and a doom more — to multiple rooms of a home.

Since its debut in 2007, Sonos has led the scheme in wirelessly delivering audio to multiple rooms at the same time using its have networking standard.

The company has produced compact white boxes called ZonePlayers intended to communicate to speakers customers already had or purchased separately, but now has taken the next step in producing a compact all-in-one device that integrates the speakers called the ZonePlayer S5.

Logitech Squeezebox Uses Wireless Wi-Fi Network

The $399 ZonePlayer S5 comes in sullen or white, and would be at home in a Bose showroom. It produces the ut~ brilliant sound and satisfying bass ever delivered in a natively networked one with integrated speakers and proves remarkably resilient to distortion at primeval volumes.

Like other Sonos devices, it can be controlled with Sonos’ allow controller or well-designed software that runs on an iPod abut on one another or iPhone. In addition to playing music files on a PC or networked storage resort, Sonos has created partnerships with a number of services, including Rhapsody, Sirius XM, Napster and Pandora.

Unlike the Sonos combination of parts to form a whole, the $299 Logitech Squeezebox line uses a standard wireless Wi-Fi reticulated. The Squeezebox Touch supports the Wi-Fi Protected Setup standard, that can make setup as easy as pushing a button on an appropriately equipped router.

Logitech had produced its own (albeit less imagination ) screen-based remote a while ago in a product called the Squeezebox Duet. However, the firm has now moved the color touch screen into the unit by the Squeezebox Touch. And while Logitech does not provide any released software for an iPod touch or iPhone with which to manage Squeezebox playback, two third-party options are available from the iTunes app warehouse for less than $10.