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Nokia Knockout!
Another couple months in the bowels of the GIRT research and development labs and hey presto, another knock-out Grab Radio product. This time it’s a unique version of the Grab Radio application for Nokia smartphones such as the N8 and the X6.
The Grab Radio Hybrid is a similar to the great iPhone version but has a great trick up it’s sleeve. The Digital Analogue Hybrid (DAH) technology will allow you to tune into the FM broadcast as well as the internet radio stream. This means that if a radio station is putting out a radio stream which is not compatible with your phone you can always tune into the fm broadcast. When a station puts out song artist and show information you can still Grab Tag, or watch the YouTube video of the song. You can even check out the artists’ Facebook, Twitter or Myspace page. This also has the advantage of reducing your data uage and the associated costs when you’re on a cell phone network.
To say we’re excited about this is like saying the pope is into religion
Grab Radio World
After months in the lab Ken and Aonghus have emerged with their new prize….Grab Radio World. Over 800 hours have been spent getting radio feeds for over 42,000 radio stations world-wide. About 40% of these have metadata which is great because with these stations you can Grab and Tag your favourite tunes. Check it out now.
We are delighted announce that Sean Gallagher and Bobby Ker are now joined the team. Welcome on board guys!
Grab Radio Ireland & UK Edition O2 App of the Week. Special introductory price 1.30 GBP
Great news. Our new version of Grab Radio with 101 of the best stations across the UK and Ireland has just been nominated O2 app. of the week.
Grab Radio Ireland & UK Edition now live!
After an intense period of work we are proud to announce that the new version of Grab Radio is finally here and available on the virtual shelves of iTunes. 101 stations from the UK and Ireland with all the major broadcasters included. Enjoy this great new app. for less than the price of a cappuccino!
Sunday Business Post Best New Business Competition Winners
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Grab Radio has been selected as the overall winner of the best business idea competition at the Out on Your Own conference organised in Dublin last October by the Sunday Business Post.
Watch out for the best of Irish and UK Radio
We are currently looking for the best (and perhaps not so oo) stations in Ireland and England…we know you have your favourites so lets hear from you.
Our categories are:-
- Best for new music
- Best for a laugh
- Best for jazz
- Best for rock
- Best for pop
- Best for Dance music
- Best for classical
- Best for Reggae and Dub music
- Best for news and current affairs
- Best for business and the economy
- Best overall station
- Best new station…… and last but not least
- The only way is up (or MTH must try harder award) award
Each person has one vote…so lets hear from you and we’ll have some fun.
Pipped at the Post!
We attended the fantastic Impact Media Elevate Awards last night. It was a great night and we met some really interesting people. Thanks to the judges and to everyone at Impact Media for putting on a great show.
Congratulations to Think Tank the winners of the Galway prize, we were gutted to miss the opportunity but delighted to see it go to another great Galway business.
This week also saw us attending the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Award. We’re thrilled to have been shortlisted for these two coveted awards. We just have to start winning a few now!
Jobs in the offing…
Here at Grab Radio we’re getting busier and busier and have now found ourselves looking for a programmer with specific abilities in MP3, AAC, AAC+, RTSP/RTP/RTMP, MPEG4, ASX, MMS, WMA.
If this is you why not give us a shout at info [at] grabradioworld.com , we’re just lovely to work with!
More, More, More…
Just as I said thanks to those who gave us a plug yesterday we were reviewed by Music Marketing . This is a really interesting blog that looks at the current Irish music industry and beyond. Thanks for the great review!
Apparently this fish is called a Morish idol!
Grab Radio Getting out there
We’re thrilled that the Grab Radio Ireland Edition has now reached the virtual shelves of iTunes. We’ve had a great reaction and hopefully that will continue.
We have had great feedback from our users and we want to encourage more and more people to give us feedback and tell us how we could improve the app.
We’ll be launching the Grab Radio Ireland and UK edition in the coming weeks, all our Ireland Edition users will receive a free upgrade to enable them to listen to the UK stations.
So where have we been seen so far?
Damien Mulley featured us on his fluffy links today.
Impact Media shortlisted us for the Impact Media Elevate Awards…fingers seriously crossed for this one!
Tech Central gave the app a mention
and thanks to Little Quiz who gave us a mention as we were featured along side them in the Digital Ireland supplement of the Irish Independent. Thanks Marie Boran for the article.
To everyone who has helped spread the word for Grab Radio….THANK YOU!
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