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About a billion years ago, Pioneer distinguished itself by becoming the first audio manufacturer to offer a CD player for your car.  Back then, this was a HUGE deal, what with CD players being so finicky and skippy, thanks to all their moving parts, delicate lasers and no data caching.

Just when you thought the aftermarket for car audio was dead—hell, have you seen and heard what you get as standard in some cars these days?—Pioneer is among the first to get into the Internet radio game in a big, big way.  Read more here. 

Meanwhile, CNET has a good roundup of what manufacturers are doing when it comes to getting streaming audio into your ride.  Ford may have been first when it came to integrating smartphones apps, but you ain’t seen nothing yet.