10 posts and columns on Genius

Apple Makes Progress With Ping. Still a Long Way to Go.

in Media on September 25, 2010 at 8:58 am PT

Apple has made a small but important change to Ping that improves it considerably. It’s not enough to make the much-maligned social network a real winner, but it’s a good start: Now you can recommend songs to your friends, and see the music they recommend, at the same you’re actually listening to songs.

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Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter

in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel. David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.

Viral Video: "Eat Pray Love" (Plus Elizabeth Gilbert's "Doomed" TED Speech)

in News on March 24, 2010 at 2:53 am PT

While the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s hit book, “Eat Pray Love,” has exactly zero rock-em-sock-em blockbustery feel, unlike all the others being released this summer, its trailer is gaining in popularity online. The movie, which stars Julia Roberts, is about a woman in search of, well, herself, via copious travel.

Jobs: "I'm Vertical, Back at Apple and Loving Every Day of It"

in News on September 9, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

Leave it to Steve Jobs to upstage his own products. Rumored by some analysts to be a nonevent, Apple’s invitation-only music gathering today is already proving quite eventful. Audience members expecting Apple exec Phil Schiller to quarterback today’s proceedings were given a welcome surprise when CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in his first public appearance since his liver transplant surgery.
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Jobs: “I’m Vertical, Back at Apple and Loving Every Day of It”

in News on September 9, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

Leave it to Steve Jobs to upstage his own products. Rumored by some analysts to be a nonevent, Apple’s invitation-only music gathering today is already proving quite eventful. Audience members expecting Apple exec Phil Schiller to quarterback today’s proceedings were given a welcome surprise when CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in his first public appearance since his liver transplant surgery.
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Fresh ‘Discoveries’ from iPod, Zune

in The Mossberg Solution on September 16, 2008 at 6:16 pm PT

Apple’s Genius is a helpful tool for quickly making a playlist, but Microsoft’s Zune software truly allows people to discover more about their own music.
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iPhone 2.1: The Fix Is In

in News on September 12, 2008 at 6:08 am PT

Apple released iPhone 2.1 this morning, and as CEO Steve Jobs said earlier this week, it does appear to “fix lots of bugs.” 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, according to Apple, including a decrease in call set-up failures and call drops, significantly improved battery life for most users, dramatically reduced time to back up to iTunes, and improved email reliability. It definitely feels snappier.

A Streaming Comes Across the Sky

in News on September 4, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

iTunes 8 to Feature Slide-Out Keyboard, Dual Batteries?

in News on September 3, 2008 at 4:38 pm PT

The Apple rumor mill has such a hair trigger, that even passing mention of an unreleased product can set it into yammering motion. As happened today after Digg founder Kevin Rose offered up some purported insider information about the focus of Apple’s “Let’s Rock” media event in San Francisco next Tuesday.