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Bjoo Apple releases fix for MacBook Pro hard drive

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Feb 27 2010



The hard drives in question shipped with the June 2009 MacBook Pro, according to Apple.

Apple releases fix for MacBook Pro hard drive issues

Apple on Wednesday released a software update it said would fix a problem with its MacBook Pro line of portable computers that have the 7200rpm 500GB hard drive.

Jim Dalrymple has followed Apple and the Mac industry for the last 15 years, first as part of MacCentral and then in various positions at Macworld. Jim also writes about the professional audio market, examining the best ways to record music using a Macintosh. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. He currently runs The Loop. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple.


Users with the affected computers reported hearing beeps from the computer just before the hard drive would make clicking sounds and then freeze. The issue wouldn’t require a restart or force quit– simply waiting for 10 seconds or so would normally be enough for the computer to return to normal.

MacBook Pro Hard Drive Firmware Update 2.0 is available from Apple’s support Web site or via the software update mechanism in Mac OS X.

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The software download from Apple’s Web site is a firmware updater. After downloading, you will be presented with some onscreen instructions to fully complete the update.

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hfik Apple net profit up sharply on strong iPhone

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Feb 27 2010

Apple has maintained trademark secrecy regarding a Wednesday event at which it is expected to unveil a tablet computer along the lines of a “iPhone on steroids,” according to analysts.

“If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now a 50-billion-dollar-plus company,” said the iconic California firm’s chief executive Steve Jobs.

Oppenheimer said Apple expects revenue in the current fiscal quarter to range from 11.0 billion to 11.4 billion US dollars and for diluted earnings per share to wind up between 2.06 to 2.18 US dollars.

“We are very pleased to have generated 5.8 billion US dollars in cash during the quarter,” said Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer.

The firm’s quarterly profit amounted to 3.67 US dollars per share in a leap from the 2.50 US dollars per share, or 2.26 billion US dollars in net profit, in the final three months of 2008.


Apple said it sold 3.36 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, 33 percent more than a year ago, and 8.7 million iPhones, up 100 percent from a year ago.



However, sales of iPods slid eight percent to 21 million units in a year-over-year comparison of quarters.

Apple said revenue in the first quarter rose to 15.68 billion US dollars from 11.88 billion US dollars in the corresponding quarter a year ago.

“The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about.”

Apple net profit up sharply on strong iPhone sales
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Strong iPhone sales helped Apple post a 50-percent increase in quarterly net profit on Monday of 3.38 billion US dollars.

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fwez Apple planning September event-_459

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Feb 27 2010

Almost time for a tuneup for the iPod Touch?

And finally, many are wondering if Apple CEO Steve Jobs will use the September event–if it happens–to make his first public appearance since returning from medical leave earlier this year. Apple executive Phil Schiller has filled in for Jobs at these keynote-style events since January, but since Jobs has been officially back at the company’s helm since the end of June, the September event would be the first opportunity for him to return to the spotlight.



It’s essentially guaranteed that Apple will announce upgrades across the iPod line, including the iPod Touch and Nano, and perhaps even kill off some older models.The iPod Touch is rumored to be getting a camera, digital compass, and microphone. Other clues have pointed to the Nano also getting equipped with a camera.

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She’s also one of the hosts of CNET News’ Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she’s a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica.


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Of more interest perhaps is whether Apple will use this event to debut the oft-discussed and long-rumored Apple tablet. Different sources have pointed to a 10-inch touch-screen device that’s essentially a giant iPod Touch being available either this fall or in early 2010. It’s rumored to have a music element to it, through a new album format supposedly called “Cocktail,” making its introduction at a music-focused event seem plausible. The timing would also make sense if Apple wanted to establish some solid pre-holiday buzz before the annual winter shopping season. 

Apple planning September event?

It’s happened every September for the past few years, and it appears it’s on track again: Apple is planning a keynote event rumored to take place the second week of September, according to AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka.

He says he has heard from “multiple music industry sources” that there will be an Apple event held sometime during the week of September 7. Now, this isn’t a huge surprise since Apple has held an event announcing the latest upgrade to theiPod and iTunes around this same time every year. But this year there are some interesting variables in play.

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sclq Apple censors a dictionary app_668

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Eventually the application was approved, but scrubbed clean of objectionable words and even then it was slapped with a 17+ rating, which will get filtered out by OS 3.0’s parental controls. Essentially, the message from Apple, or at least an overzealous App Store approval team, is that iPhone or iPod Touch owners over 17 years old need to be told what kind of words they’re allowed to look up on their Apple device.

John Gruber at Daringfireball.net points to the latest example of aniPhone application being stymied by Apple’s App Store approval process. In this case, it’s a dictionary app called Ninjawords (so called because ninjas are “smart, accurate, and really fast”) that was rejected three times over the course of two months, mostly because “objectionable” words could be looked up and found in the dictionary’s search function, Gruber reported.

Apple censors a dictionary app

This is just getting ridiculous.

The first version, submitted May 13, was rejected because it crashed when run on the iPhone 3.0 OS beta. Crosby said it was fixed and resubmitted before being rejected again weeks later because it contained vulgar language, that could “be found objectionable by iPhone oriPod Touch users.”

But the Ninjawords app isn’t like an e-book where you have to read the whole thing to get your money’s worth. This is a dictionary, a reference guide, where one has to actually look up the word in question to see it and be possibly offended by it.

It’s been established that Apple is squeamish when it comes to so-called “objectionable” content. Earlier this year an e-book app was rejected because it carried a link to “The Kama Sutra,” and CNET’s own David Carnoy wrote a book called “Knife Music,” whose electronic version was initially rejected from the App Store for containing a scene with graphic language.

It’s a new version of an old story, but one that almost seems like a parody of the byzantine process of getting an app past the guardians of the App store. Here’s how it went down, according to Matchstick software’s Phil Crosby, one of the developers of Ninjawords, as told to John Gruber.

Matchstick apparently played ball and tried to remove as many offensive words as it could, according to Crosby. When it submitted the application again–this time a whole new app, thus losing its place in the approval line–it was again rebuffed because more words deemed inappropriate by App Store screeners were discovered by looking them up.

Of course, the App Store is Apple’s domain, and it can dictate what kind of content it wants to sell. But the inconsistent way in which the rules are applied–see here, here, here, and here, for starters–is bordering on the surreal.

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henk Apple unveils new tablet computer, the iPad_5

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Feb 27 2010

Jobs said the iPad has support from five big publishers and Apple will “open the floodgates for the rest of the publishers starting this afternoon.”

The cheapest iPad model, with Wi-Fi connectivity and 16GB of memory, is 499 US dollars while the most expensive — which includes 3G connectivity and 64GB of memory — costs 829 US dollars.


Apple shares gained 0.94 percent to close at 207.88 US dollars on Wall Street, but slipped a tad in after-hours electronic trading.

“We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product,” said Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant last year and was making just his second public appearance since September.

“Amazon has done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle,” Jobs said. “We are going to stand on their shoulders.”

Apple said it would start shipping the Wi-Fi version of the iPad, which has a virtual keyboard but can also dock with an external keyboard, in late March.

Gameloft and Electronic Arts showed off slick games they had crafted with just a few weeks of preparation, saying the iPad opens countless “new doors.”

The New York Times, Time magazine and National Geographic were among the partners whose content was displayed on the iPad on Wednesday.

“I have a hard time believing after seeing this that folks are going to want an e-reader that just does plain text and doesn’t do format or colour,” he said.

“We are going to be able to bring all of the other great EA games for the iPhone from the App Store to this device in no time,” said Travis Boatman of EA’s mobile studios.

Jobs said he expected the device to carve out a place between the laptop computer and the smartphone.

“You can have black-and-white, colour, video in your books — whatever the author wants,” he said. “We think the iPad is going to make a terrific e-book reader, not just for popular books but for textbooks as well.

“Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of products in between a laptop and a smartphone?” he asked. “We think we’ve done it.”



Enderle believed iPads could also pose a threat to hand-held gaming systems and eventually videogame consoles.

Dressed in his trademark blue jeans, black turtleneck and sneakers, Jobs walked around the stage and sat on a couch at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater as he unveiled the hotly anticipated gadget.

Some technology analysts believe the iPad will render other e-readers obsolete, while a number of publishers are counting on it to sell digital versions of their publications.

Apple unveils new tablet computer, the iPad
GLENN CHAPMAN January 28, 2010

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs revealed the culture-changing company’s latest must-have device, a touchscreen tablet computer anointed the “iPad.”

“I think it’s a home run,” said Gartner analyst Van Baker. “It becomes a viable alternative to a netbook and I get the 140,000 applications in the App Store. It is a pretty compelling value.”

Besides serving as an e-reader, the iPad runs almost all of the applications available through the Apple App Store for the iPod and iPhone.

Jobs, who appeared thin but healthy, said Apple was launching an online “iBookstore” for the iPad and touted its abilities as an electronic reader of books, newspapers and magazines.

The 3G version will reach the market in late April. The iPad is “unlocked,” meaning buyers can pick preferred telecom service providers.

Analyst Rob Enderle of Silicon Valley’s Enderle Group said the iPad could be “disruptive for a lot of markets.”

Apple simultaneously released a kit for software developers to tailor applications for the iPad.

He said it has about 10 hours of battery life.

“We want to make something that combines the best of print and the best of digital,” Times digital operations vice president Martin Nisenholtz said as he showed off an early version of an app for the device. “We are incredibly psyched to pioneer the next stage in digital journalism.”

He showed off various iPad features which include browsing the Web, checking email, working with spreadsheets and charts, playing videogames, listening to music or watching video.

“If you are thinking about buying a Kindle, you are probably reconsidering that decision. If you are a developer, you have one more reason to develop applications for Apple,” said Interpret analyst Michael Gartenberg.

The long-awaited iPad has a 9.7-inch (24.6-centimeter) colour screen and resembles an oversized iPhone. It is 0.5 inches (1.3 cms) thick, weighs 1.5 pounds (0.7 kgs) and comes with 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes of flash memory.

The iPad is “so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smartphone,” he said.

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Omnd App helps hearing-impaired sort through aural

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Feb 27 2010 
App helps hearing-impaired sort through aural clutter

Hearing aids and cochlear implants work like complicated miniature microphones to help the deaf and hard-of-hearing pick up the noises around them. Unfortunately, the hum of background noise also tends to be amplified, often creating a confusing melee of sound.

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An ear with a cochlear implant.

Meanwhile, Furst-Yust will keep working on her algorithm for other possible applications, including a device that filters out the sounds those without hearing impairment don’t want to hear–particularly music, which she says is easier to target than voices because our brains listen to music differently.

Clearcall was initially developed for cell phones, but the Clearcall-filtered voices are distorted, and therefore distracting to those without hearing impairment. So Furst-Yust adapted the technology to instead be used as a software add-on for existing hearing aid devices.



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Clearcall is patented and is available for licensing through Tel Aviv University’s commercialization company, Ramot. It could hit the market in a matter of months, according to the press release.

Miriam Furst-Yust, a professor at Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering, has developed new software called Clearcall that can improve speech recognition by up to 50 percent in hearing aids and cochlear implants, according to a press release put out by the American Friends of Tel Aviv University.

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qwhw AOL- We’ve Got Garlinghouse_163

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Feb 27 2010

AOL: "More of a Foot in the Past"

AOL: We've Got Garlinghouse

Former Yahoo! executive Brad Garlinghouse earned notoriety in 2006 when he sent a scathing memo to the company’s top brass. In what came to be known as the "Peanut Butter Manifesto," Garlinghouse said Yahoo (YHOO) had spread itself too thinly across many businesses. Now Garlinghouse is headed to another company that needs to improve its focus.

In some ways, the biggest challenges facing Garlinghouse at AOL are of his own making. At Yahoo, he led the effort that put Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger ahead of AOL Mail and AOL Instant Messenger in terms of U.S. visitors. In July, Yahoo’s e-mail service had more than 106 million unique visitors, almost three times the tally for AOL, according to comScore (SCOR). Now he’s determined to revive the flagging properties at AOL. "I’m a very competitive person," Garlinghouse tells BusinessWeek. "I’m here to win and if I didn’t think there was a chance [of beating Yahoo in e-mail and IM], I would not have joined."

On his first day at the new job, Garlinghouse wouldn’t rule out acquisitions, though he said he’s not planning a shopping spree. "If there are attractive opportunities, we’ll look at those," he says. It’s about time AOL looks for ways to update its communication tools, says Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets. "The way people communicate changes very quickly—Twitter and Facebook are clear examples of that in recent history," Sebastian says. "AOL seems to still have more of a foot in the past than in the future."

One of his main approaches will be collaborating with—and potentially acquiring—other players in Internet communication. "You are seeing the Twitters of the world and the Facebook updates of the world changing the dynamics of online communication," Garlinghouse says. "I definitely come to the table thinking about, ‘How do we collaborate in this ecosystem?’" In recent weeks, AOL Instant Messenger began letting users update their Facebook and Twitter pages directly from its desktop client.

The former Yahoo exec also gained props for helping the company pick winners from among existing businesses. In 2007, Garlinghouse helped convince Yahoo to give up its photo service and instead focus on Flickr, says former Yahoo executive Jeff Bonforte. "It was like him living the ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto,’" Bonforte says. Flickr is one of the most widely used photo-sharing services.


Garlinghouse has experience bringing outside services into the fold. In 2004 he led Yahoo’s $30 million acquisition of e-mail service Oddpost. "That was something that jump-started Yahoo’s growth in e-mail," Garlinghouse says. He was also involved in the company’s 2007 acquisition of Zimbra.

On Sept. 8, AOL said Garlinghouse would head its Internet and mobile communications division, which includes e-mail and instant messaging products. The hire comes as AOL prepares to be spun out from its corporate parent Time Warner (TWX) later this year—and as freshly minted Chief Executive Tim Armstrong leads an effort to trim costs and home in on what AOL does best, including display advertising. Garlinghouse, who most recently served as an adviser to venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners, will likely play a key role in helping Armstrong forge alliances and make acquisitions, while deemphasizing or even spinning off noncore businesses.

Garlinghouse is the latest in a series of outside hires for CEO Armstrong, who himself came from Google (GOOG) in March. Last month, Armstrong named fellow Google alum Jeff Levick as AOL’s new head of sales, Patch Media’s Jon Brod as head of AOL Ventures, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) executive Artie Minson as his new chief financial officer.

Similarly at AOL, enhancing focus on some products may come at the expense of other units. "There are areas where we will need to invest further, there are areas we will certainly need to reevaluate," Garlinghouse says. Look for some of the biggest changes at AOL Ventures, the unit the company created for businesses that seek venture investment, and which now owns social networking site Bebo and video search engine Truveo. Garlinghouse’s responsibilities will include acting as the West Coast head of AOL Ventures. While he admits some of these businesses may be sold or spun off, he says the unit will allow many of them "comfortable ways to grow in some ways distinct from the mother ship, AOL." He didn’t say which companies may be restructured.

Responsibilities at AOL Ventures, Too



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zeax Android apps show big potential for growth_69

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Feb 27 2010

AdMob, a company that tracks mobile Web and application usage, found that Android and iPhone users download nine to 10 apps a month and iPod Touch users download 18 a month. More than half of the Android and iPhone users spend more than 30 minutes a day using apps, according to the survey results released Thursday (PDF).

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Simply put, Android has a nice base of engaged users already. More distribution is likely to make it a more viable rival to the iPhone.

Android apps show big potential for growth

This was originally posted at ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

That’s some serious engagement and a lot of runway for Android. Why? Android-powered devices–T-Mobile’s MyTouch is the headliner–are hard to come by. However, that’s changing as Motorola will be taking Android handsets to large carriers like Verizon Wireless in the fourth quarter.

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Android,iPhone andiPod Touch users are all highly engaged with applications and frequently download them to their devices, according to a new survey from AdMob.

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(Credit:AdMob) Larry Dignan is editor in chief of ZDNet and editorial director of CNET’s TechRepublic. He has covered the technology and financial-services industries since 1995.




However, Android has a much smaller base of devices and thus has more upside ahead.

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zpkh Apache makes its first $420 million_484

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Feb 27 2010

The SpringSource acquisition turns this “wisdom” on its head.

Yes, we’ve seen smaller acquisitions of open-source companies that rely on Apache-style licensing. IBM acquired Gluecode (Geronimo project), SpringSource bought Covalent (Tomcat), Oracle acquired Sleepycat (Sleepycat, BSD license), and there have likely been others that I’m simply not remembering.

Nearly every other big open-source acquisition, from JBoss ($350 million) to MySQL ($1 billion) to XenSource ($500 million), has involved the GPL. Even Zimbra ($350 million), while not GPL, fits the mold because it used an attribution clause with an MPL license that was designed to accomplish GPL-esque ambitions.

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IBM proved long ago that it’s possible to build billion-dollar businesses with Apache. But SpringSource is the first start-up to suggest that Apache isn’t simply a way for big companies to create complements to proprietary cores. Sometimes an Apache core is worth something, too. At least $420 million, by SpringSource’s reckoning.

IBM already does this. So, frankly, does Microsoft (though still to a small degree). I think we’ll see a lot more.



But the big, head-turning deals? GNU General Public License (GPL). Every one of them.

The GPL has been prominent for good reason. It’s accepted wisdom in the commercial open-source crowd that it’s difficult to directly monetize Apache-licensed software, and that the GPL, what with its capitalist urge for control, is a better tool for the financially inclined.

As the open source market continues marching away from its roots–the lone developer who creates a useful product as a labor of love–appreciation for the idealism that lies at the GPL’s heart is diminishing. Businesses that view open source development as a path to a profitable future rather than as an altruistic mission are increasingly balking at what they view as the license’s excessively restrictive aspects concerning code improvements.

The reason is that customers have never been as religious about open source as the vendors/communities that develop it, a lesson I was taught by a crowd of CTOs in New York and which is highlighted in a recent Enterprise Systems Journal article.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.


Such thinking, among other considerations, led Appcelerator to drop the GPL for Apache, and I believe we’ll see more. We just had a significant demonstration that you can make money with Apache-licensed software. SpringSource was doubling sales every year with Apache, and had a $420 million outcome as a result of both its sales and its community, which may be easier to come by with an Apache license than GPL, at least for commercial open-source projects.

Apache makes its first $420 million

Others and I have made much of VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource for $420 million, but one crucial point has been overlooked: this is the first big acquisition of a company that depends on the Apache license.

But it’s also a function of open source’s growing importance in the software ecosystem. As more money pours into open source–IDC projects $8.1 billion in open-source revenues by 2013–there will be increasing pressure to make it pay, as InfoWorld recently wrote:

In other words, we’re getting beyond open source as a religious coda, the secret handshake that makes one part of The Club, and instead are focused on building businesses that provide greater transparency and value for customers. I suspect we’ll therefore see more Apache and less GPL going forward, with companies contributing significant parts of their product/business to open source, while delivering the rest via proprietary licensing.

It’s telling, for example, that InfoWorld’s attempts to interview Richard Stallman, founder of the GPL, were stymied by his “demand(ing) control of what (InfoWorld) published.” You don’t grow a community with that emphasis on control of the outcome.

Perhaps this is because our notion of “monetizing open source” has expanded, as Eric Barroca astutely argues. The GPL is great for dual-licensing and support-based businesses, but it’s not very adept at incorporating proprietary software in the way that IBM does, for example, or Day Software, as Kevin Cochrane notes.

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Bdjz AmEx Presale Tickets for AMERICAN IDIOT Now A

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AMERICAN IDIOT will be produced on Broadway in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.For more information, visit www.AmericanIdiotOnBroadway.com.



The limited engagement of AMERICAN IDIOT at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre began previews on September 4, 2009, opened on September 16, 2009, extended twice and played its final performance on Sunday, November 15, 2009. AMERICAN IDIOT’s record breaking run brought in the biggest advance sale in the Theatre’s 41-year history, the biggest day at the box office, 17 of the top 20 days ever and due to ticket demand had to announce the first extension before it had played its first performance.

The show features scenic design by Tony-nominee Christine Jones (Spring Awakening), costume design by Baryshnikov fellow Andrea Lauer (The Butcher of Baraboo), lighting design by two-time Tony-winner Kevin Adams (Hair), Sound design by Obie Award-winner Brian Ronan (Cabaret), as well as video design by Darrel Maloney.

Tickets for the Broadway run of AMERICAN IDIOT are now available exclusively to American Express card holders. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on February 14th. AMERICAN IDIOT will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the ST. James Theatre.


“American Idiot is that rare and tricky creature, a true rock opera,” says Charles Isherwood of The New York Times. “Directed with polish and precision by Michael Mayer, American Idiot has its own voice: bitter and melancholy, attuned to an era more doubting than hopeful. Perhaps most strongly – and promisingly? – the show’s story of young men on a confused search for themselves during a time of changing social mores and foreign wars recalls Hair, the musical about the make-love-not-war generation. (Both musicals also do most of their storytelling in song.) Mournful as it is about the prospects of 21st-century Americans, the show possesses a stimulating energy and a vision of wasted youth that holds us in its grip.”

Based on the Reprise Records Grammy® Award-winning album of the same name, AMERICAN IDIOT features the music of Green Day and the lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The show is directed by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), who also collaborated with Armstrong on the book, and choreographed by Olivier Award-winning Steven Hoggett (Blackwatch). The Tony-winning composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) is the music supervisor, orchestrator and music arranger. In addition, Kitt also provided string arrangements for Green Day’s latest album 21st Century Breakdown.

The cast of AMERICAN IDIOT collaborated with Green Day to record a new version of the hit single “21 Guns.” Produced by the band’s singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, the track was released by Reprise Records on December 22, 2009 for purchase through all digital retailers. “21 Guns” is the second single from Green Day’s gold album 21st Century Breakdown. The digital version of the track has gone platinum, selling more than one million downloads, earned 2010 Grammy® Nominations for “Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals” and “Best Rock Song”, while the video won three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in September, including “Best Rock Video.”

“Experiencing American Idiot on stage in Berkeley was incredible,” says Billie Joe Armstrong. “We have really enjoyed working with Michael, Steven, Tom and the cast. The energy and chemistry of the group is contagious. Michael Mayer was able to bring life to the characters of American Idiot and Tom Kitt’s musical arrangements are breathtaking. We’re so proud that the show is coming to Broadway!”

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AMERICAN IDIOT follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East, as they seek redemption in a world filled with frustration – an exhilarating journey borne along by Green Day’s electrifying songs. This high-octane show includes every song from the album, as well as several new songs from 21st Century Breakdown. Green Day won two Grammys ®- Best Rock Album and Record of the Year – for its multi-platinum American Idiot, which sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Now the band brings this explosive album to the stage with the director of Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards in 2007.

Michael Mayer comments, “Green Day’s iconic album is one of the most brutally honest, eloquent, and poetically theatrical responses to the post 9/11 world that I have encountered. I hear in these amazing songs the frustration and anger and dreams of a lost generation of Americans. Collaborating with Billie Joe and the band has been a mind-blowing thrill from day one.”

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