Like most, you may be wondering what the perfect gift for dad will be. In the past you’ve given ties, electric razors, restaurant gift certificates, but this year you want to give something special that dad will appreciate every day. Perhaps you have a student getting ready to graduate high school or college. You want to reward all of the years of hard effort with a gift that is rewarding, and perhaps a bit more fun.

Slacker has thought this through and they have the answer. They are even running a special in an effort to make your gift giving selection that much easier.

To celebrate the season of Dad’s and Grad’s, Slacker is offering a free custom carrying case with the purchase of any Slacker portable. The customized case makes protecting and carrying the Slacker Portable a breeze, and the case has a retail value of $29.99. Let that special person know you care by getting their favorite types of music stations pre-loaded onto the Slacker portable when you order. Preloading is a freebie that allows the recipient to begin jamming to their favorite tunes right out of the box.

A special station has even been created for the graduating Slackers. Graduation Party Radio is a specialized channel featuring tunes that are always popular at this time of year. As with all Slacker channels, your listening will customize the channel even further.

Father’s Day is this weekend, and graduation is fast approaching. Log into Slacker now, to order the gift of music.

The Slacker Portable Player is an addition that takes the Slacker lifestyle mobile. This nifty device puts Music YOU LIKE at your fingertips, and does it without the hassle of downloading and creating playlists. The Slacker portable allows for the discovery of new music, and the radio stations created give a new sense of adventure to your listening experience. Do you know all 200 songs on your MP3 player? Why not try a service that can combine your favorites with new music that you will also love? Why not try a device that brings all of this together in an easy to use format?

We got our hands on the 4GB Slacker Portable, and it not only made Slacker that much more appreciated, it also found its way into my car (via an auxiliary jack), and competes heavily for my listening ear.

The Slacker Portable is a godsend for audiophiles who want great music that suits their tastes without all of the hassle that some other services have. Up until now, Slacker was a service that I used in my home and on my PC at work. Those days are now gone, and my ears thank me every day.

If you love Slacker on your computer, the Slacker Portable Player is fast becoming a must have device, but beware….you will find yourself tempted to go ahead and sign up for the premium service! Unlimited skipping of songs, the ability to save songs, and no commercials now will have now have even more value with the addition of a Slacker Portable Player. At only $90 for a year, the added convenience of a premium account will have you jamming in no time. The price is right as well. $90 will get you the same 90 songs day after day on your i-Pod. With Slacker you can save those same songs and far more, all while being exposed to other music you like.

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If you do not have a premium Slacker account yet, Slacker is adding yet another great new feature to entice you. Request Radio is a new feature that allow you to further customize your Slacker experience. The new feature works like this:

- Choose “edit” while playing one of your stations
- Click the new tab titled “Request Songs” (see photo).
- Type in an artist/band you like, and then “request” songs by clicking on the heart beside each song.

As with everything Slacker does, it is that simple. Slacker will play these songs more often, making your custoimized radio experience even better.

Slacker is sweetening the pie with an offer of free shipping with the order of any Slacker portable device. The offer is available for a limited time, and is a great opportunity to try out what others already know. Customized radio stations that meet your taste because they learn from you.

The portable player is available in three configurations. A 15 station, 25 station, or 40 station model. Slacker says that it is what radio was meant to be, delivering over 2 million songs, over 100 professionally programmed stations, more than 10,000 artist stations, and an unlimited number of personally created stations - all for free. The Slacker Portable plays all of your personalized music everywhere you go.

As if that was not enough, your Slacker Portable can be preloaded with your favorite Slacker stations for free. Fully customized, free preloading, and free shipping!!! How much easier could it get. Want to know more? Visit Slacker

Slacker is stepping up the pressure in the audio enterytainment sector with an announcement that they have now inked deals with the music industry’s to names such as EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner.

Slacker Completes Deals with Top Music Publishers

Slacker Finalizes Deals with EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/Chappell Music to Enable Slacker Personal Radio Experience

Slacker, Inc. today announced it has entered into agreements with top music publishers, including EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/Chappell Music. The new deals give Slacker the content rights to enable Personal Radio that can be played everywhere on Slacker Portable Radio Players.

With these publishing license agreements, Slacker users can transfer songs from the Slacker service and store the music on Slacker Portables giving listeners the best on-the-go personal radio experience available today. The agreements, completed prior to the availability of Slacker Portables, also enable Slacker Premium Service customers to save songs and replay them whenever they want.

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Slacker recently announced that they have teamed up with Wi-Fi connection wizards Devicescape to make that elusive Wi-Fi connectivity easy to use and find.

From hotels and airports to coffee shops and restaurants, Slacker Portable users will now be able to make effortless connections to an expanded range of Wi-Fi hotspots that normally require a password or web-based login.

For those of you who are lucky enough to be currently using the Slacker Portable Player, the Devicescape functionality is now available through a free firmware update. To get this update all you need is a simple station refresh, while all new Slacker Portable Players will ship with this latest feature pre-installed.

If you haven’t got a hold of the latest and greatest Slacker Portable personal radio player, the people over at Slacker have launched a new viral marketing contest aimed at giving away one of these highly touted gadgets.

Beginning on March 25th, all you have to do for your chance to win is tell your family and friends about Slacker and every person you get to sign up will get you another entry in the giveaway. On April 30th, ONE user will be chosen at random to win their 2 GB Portable Player.

Now, all that being said, isn’t this contest a little weak? They are going to have hundreds of thousands of faithful users marketing their product…and for what…a shot at one and only one of their absolute least expensive models?

Slacker, I appreciate your grassroots campaign but, it’s time to step up your game and give your loyal users a real referral rewards program. I’ll do you one better… lets really get this ball rolling by providing webmasters, who have the power to reach a substantial audience and can actually grow your brand, with a real boa fide affiliate program.

Ever want to share your experiences with Slacker? Want to learn about great stations that others have programmed? Do you have a technical question that needs an answer? Well, Slacker has launched Slacker Forums. A place where you can be a bit more active about your slacking.

Catch your Slacker news here at Slacker Active, and share your experiences in the Slacker Forums.