Tag: PLAYBOY

Apple may have a strict and widely ridiculed policy on keeping "adult" material out of its App Store, but it's apparently willing to make an exception for Playboy. Yesterday, Playboy founder and world's greatest granddad Hugh Hefner cheerfully announced that his gentleman's magazine will soon be available on the iPad, in its entirety. "Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will be available on ...

Share Online games like 'FarmVille' continue to attract social networkers (and their paychecks) at an exponential rate, but the industry definitely seems to lack adult-themed titles. Jolt Online, however, has partnered with a powerful ally in order to provide a "Christmas gift to the Internet," or -- more specifically -- to randy teens and creepy old men. The company has officially announced ...

Long before the iPad, the iPod and even the iMac, Apple was a powerful force. Take a glimpse 25 years into the past, and into the young mind of Steve Jobs, with this 1985 Playboy interview. With decades of turbulence and success still in front of him, the 29-year-old Jobs is mature beyond his years (and clearly enchanted with Dylan, beach sex, and LSD). ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, one of our favorite tech artists, has a new exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in the U.K. Several of his older biometric works will be on display, as well as two new ones: 'Please Empty Your Pockets', which scans visitors' belongings with an airport-type ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Playboy has hopped on the tech bandwagon in recent months with both a NSFW website and a 3-D print spread. The empire that Heffner built is now extending its reach into the gaming marketplace, thanks to a partnership with Bigpoint. [From: Joystiq] Kindle 3 reviews are starting to hit the Web, and David Pogue praises Amazon's ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... After four long years, Sony and Microsoft are finally catching up to Nintendo's revolutionary motion control system. While Microsoft definitely still lags behind its rivals, a new round of conjecture indicates that its Project Natal will eventually hit the market in October. More details should emerge at June's E3 event. [From: ...

Playboy, which has somehow (mostly) defied the magazine apocalypse facing the rest of the print industry, has just announced a new site called The Smoking Jacket that will feature "safe for work" content. We presume that means nipples will get a cover-up via leather and/or lace, but that bosoms won't fail to appear entirely on the site -- an obvious bid to recapture the young male audience stolen ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... At first glance, 'Avatar' seems like it could either be an awe-inspiring F/X masterpiece or just a laughably ridiculous sci-fi punch line. Yesterday, a London audience indicated that the film could indeed be the former, as the closing credits were met with rare applause. [From: Newsvine] The App store's highly publicized puritan ...

Playboy is reducing annual costs by $12 Million dollars, and closing down its DVD division in order to return to profitability by 2009. In reducing costs, Playboy will lay off approximately 80 positions and significantly reduce travel, entertainment and overtime as well as forgo profit-sharing payments. The business has taken its biggest hit from the downturn in print advertising sales as well ...

Which option would you take: Potentially scoring with a beautiful woman or definitely scoring a new iPhone? That's the choice male contestants will make on Playboy TV's new reality show, 'Gadget or the Girl.' The format is similar to many of the other "I really just want to be on TV" dating shows. The contestant meets three presumably attractive girls, eliminates one immediately, goes on a date ...