Pandora has launched its new ‘anywhere’ platform, which will see the music discovery service being available to devices beyond the PC — both mobile and around the home. If you’re not familiar with the service, Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project where a group of experts have analyzed the component parts or ‘genes’ of the musical works of over 10,000 artists. The result of which is that you can tell Pandora to create a radio station based on songs that have similar ‘genes’ to a chosen artist or track. However, until now, aside from a partnership with Slim Devices (makers of the excellent Squeezebox), Pandora was only available through a flash-compatible web browser.
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Mozilla Labs, the people behind Firefox, are experimenting with a new service to make mobile browsing less cumbersome and more convenient. Called ‘