Gizmodo: Apple Event

Apple's September 9 Event - What Do You Want To See From Us?

Jason Chen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:16:07 EDT

Apple's September 9 event is only one lazy weekend away, but we here at Giz are already preparing for our usual liveblog directly from the event. You already know the rumors—new nanos, iTunes 8 with new features and various other things—what might be coming, but what do you want to see from us? We'll be at live.gizmodo.com, same as always, but do you want something to change? What do you want to see more of? Less of? None at all of? We'll hopefully have some fun new interactive stuff as well. Let us know in the comments, and we'll see you early morning on Tuesday, September 9 for our pre-game coverage.

Rumor: iTunes 8 Brings 'Genius', A Smart Music Grouping and Recommendation Engine

Jason Chen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:58 EDT

It appears that some of Kevin Rose's predictions about iTunes 8 have been corroborated by other tipsters to MacRumors, which says that there's going to be a "Genius" feature that generates playlists containing songs that have similar qualities to other songs. MacRumors calls this unconfirmed because they didn't receive the tip from one of their trusted sources, apparently.

Other Kevin Rose predictions such as a "trippy" visualization with "planet like objects" and downloadable TV shows in HD haven't been confirmed, nor have previous rumors of an iTunes subscription service. But that differently-shaped iPod nano seems to be a lock. [MacRumors]

Apple Event on February 26 Launches iPhone SDK and MacBook Pro?

Jason Chen — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:34:27 EST

9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple will have yet another event on February 26 in order to launch the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK, which will have native apps that reportedly offer Exchange and Lotus Notes support. And the best part is that updated MacBook Pros with Penryn and possibly the MacBook Air trackpad could also debut there.

Apparently the date was finalized after Apple pulled out of the National Association of Broadcasters show, which means they might save the Final Cut Pro server announcement (if there is one) for the Feb 26 event as well. Remember, no one can confirm what Apple's announcing until they announce it, but this is what we know so far. [9to5Mac]

Apple NAB Buzz Building, Giz Has Tickets In Hand

Charlie White — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:30:00 EDT

Buzz builds about Apple's event at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas, happening on that wonderful day of days, April 15. We've got invitations in hand, and will be there to keep you posted on all the happenings.

Apple is expected to introduce a new version of its video editing application Final Cut Pro, along with much-rumored hardware updates that might include accelerated video and graphics from NVIDIA as well as an eight-core Mac Pro workstation.

Stick with us—we're no strangers to NAB, we've been going every year since 1994—and we'll keep you up to date on the latest from Apple and lots of others, too. – Charlie White