Proud owners of the highly anticipated Apple iPhone can take advantage of a new service called iPlayboy.
Included in the iPlayboy offering are 12 non-nude wallpapers for the phone, a separate photo album with 12 other Playmate photos, a one-hour episode of Playboy Radio's "Playmate Hour" and a Cyber Girl video from Playboy.com.
With the announcement, Playboy appears to be first out of the gate with mobile content developed specifically for the iPhone.
Source: www.mediapost.com
CMP Technology launches new website and digital edition
B2b publisher CMP Technology, a subsidiary of United Business Media, has announced the debut of a new community-driven website for DB2 Magazine—a solutions-oriented publication targeted at IT professionals who work in the IBM data management environment.
The downloadable, printable digital edition of DB2 Magazine includes all feature articles and columns contained in the print version. The new web site offers many opportunities for interactivity, including a new wiki devoted to IBM information management technologies and blogs written by experts in the IT field.
The news comes just two weeks after CMP announced plans to lay off 200 employees and shut a number of titles.
To view a video of American Business Media's Gordon Hughes interviewing CMP CEO Steve Weitzner on the changes in b2b media, click here.
Source: www.pubexec.com
Playboy to offer DVD archive
Playboy Enterprises Inc. has plans in place to produce all 636 issues of the US edition of Playboy magazine page-by-page on six discs: one for each decade, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The first two discs will be available in October and will retail for $100. The disc is meant to be played on a computer and will also come with a 200-page book. The images from the DVD will be printable but will not have capabilities of being passed from one computer to another.
Source: www.cnnmoney.com
ABTA magazine goes digital
ABTA Magazine, The Association of British Travel Agents’ glossy travel trade publication, has launched an e-magazine so readers can now catch up with paper and electronic versions, and print off any relevant articles.
Sent monthly, readers can scroll through the online pages and click on links whenever websites are mentioned in the copy. A range of ABTA Magazine supplements will also be available via email.
Acting editor, Joanna Doonar, said: “ABTA e-magazine offers readers the opportunity to keep informed in whatever medium they choose, either in print or online.”
David Marshall, ABTA’s Head of Policy and Communications said: “ABTA Magazine looks as good online as it does in print and is extremely quick to use. This is one way of ensuring that everyone in the travel trade can see the magazine and benefit from its news, destination updates and useful selling points as soon as it is published.”
Over 24,000 readers will receive the e-mag, including travel agents, tour operators, travel industry professionals, meetings and incentive organisers, Public Relations professionals and journalists.
Source: ABTA