When connected to a Pioneer navigation receiver, the user's top stations become radio preset buttons to enable convenient control of stations just like a traditional radio.

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On the new system's radio screens there will be six buttons or less, she says, and the look of the lettering will be streamlined.

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The pinnacle of in-car gadgetry used to be a built-in radio, complete with pre-set buttons for switching between stations, and perhaps even a cassette player.

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"We had a big, stately old radio with green dials and lots of push buttons, and if she were alive I am sure she would be excited to see all the equipment we use now to produce radio".

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Its inks have been used by Fisher-Price to make Sesame Street posters that squawk, yapping Happy Meal boxes for McDonald's and an inflatable radio from Toys "R" Us that has no buttons or dials.

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People familiar with Apple's plans say a central part of the new strategy is to populate as many Web sites as possible with "buy" buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to Internet radio and surfing review Web sites.

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