Unnamed sources are telling Orbitcast that the uSirius Starplayr program will be submitted to the Apple App Store over the weekend, and hopefully a very short time later available to the consumer. It is important to note that this is not an app created by Sirius XM, but rather a third party.

As you probably know Sirius has a lot of competition in the arena, including Pandora, Last.fm and AOL Music. And although online streaming has been a free perk to paying Sirius XM subscribers, reports indicate that the company plans to begin charging an additional $2.99 a month for the service. This of course will be an upgrade in sound quality.

You may have heard of Grace Wireless Internet Radio. A handy device that lets you stream internet radio to various places in your home.

According to Orbitcast, Grace Wireless was also on display at the Sirius XM exhibit in the Bellagio, among other internet radio based devices. They speculate that it may be an indication of how Sirius XM plan to get satellite radio into the home, rather than a car only service.

Sirius XM Radio Inc. announced the launch of MiRGE yesterday. MiRGE is the first interoperable satellite radio, allowing XM and Sirius subscribers to switch between SIRIUS and XM programming. For anyone signed up for both services, this will allow them to receive all the stations from both services. Pretty sweet.

2008 was a trying year for Satellite Radio as Sirius stock plummeted to new lows, and the company may begin the year declaring bankruptcy. But on the technology front, there were several clear winners for Satellite Radio.

The Pioneer Inno2BK was one. The Inno2Bk is an affordable portable Satellite Radio player that allows you to take satellite radio anywhere, as well as having a built in MP3 player. Everyone seems to like it, from CNet.com who gave it 3.5 stars out of five here, its portability, size, attractive interface and recording capability, but disliking its battery life, storage capacity, inability to pause or skip backward, to

PC Magazine that gave it 4.5 stars out of five and named it an Editor’s Choice.

Mike Kobrin of PC Magazine liked the INN@BK’s looks, saying “it’s sleek, solid, sexy, slim and ultra-stylish”, but disliking that the bass and treble controls don’t work for recorded music and the inflexibility in partitioning the storage space.

Sound & Vision Magazine liked it to, as well as many others (see Amazon’s user reviews.)

You can buy the Pioneer Inno2BK here.