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Rolling Stone Is Coming To The iPad After All

5:40PM November 29, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

In a rather unexpected about-face, Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media, has announced that the iconic music magazine will soon be available on the iPad. But first, it’s porting The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide to Apple’s tablet — like this week. More »

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Watch A Baby Treat A Magazine Like An iPad — The Crazy Future

7:40AM October 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

This is perfectly even mix of completely adorable and completely frightening. Adorable, because, well, it’s a baby being cute and infantile. Frightening because her mushy baby brain’s already been transformed by an iPad. More »

Software

iOS 5′s Newsstand Is More Awesome Than You Think

2:30PM October 13, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The first wave of magazines supporting Apple’s Newsstand feature on iOS 5 went live today, which is good news. In theory, Newsstand isn’t that big of a deal. But using it, you realise it’s something more. More »

Computing

HP Wants You To Print Magazines With Your Home Printer

1:45AM October 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I think I learned that as a four-year-old. Apparently, HP and Condé Nast skipped out on that life lesson because they’re combining two dying things — print media and printers — to create the unholiest of unions: your HP printer at home will print out Condé Nast magazines for you to read. More »

Software

Amazon Tablet Will Be Filled With So Many Magazines

5:41AM September 27, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Magazine publishers tripped over themselves to get on the iPad, because they thought they could sell you pretty things like this to revive their depressed print business, but then Apple was kind of a dick about it. More »

Software

Maxim Nixes iPad Vixens, As Privileged Youthful Horndogs Weep

5:55AM August 20, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Friends, the iPad just got 80 per cent less B-list-in-a-bikini-pretty. The lad magazine’s last HD issue came off the digital presses in June, meaning you won’t be able to fork over money to read about what a guy’s girl that pretty lady with two lines in that Judd Apatow movie trailer is. More »

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The Horribly Dressed Men Of Tech

10:20AM August 5, 2011 | Ryan Tate

GQ released a list of the “15 worst dressed men in tech”, which is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel; engineers are hardly known as fashion plates. Indeed, the magazine was so overwhelmed with badly dressed techies it left a few people off its list. More »

Software

Time Putting All Its Mags On (Almost) All Tablets By Year’s End

12:29AM August 4, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Time is getting ready to push all 21 of their magazines onto every tablet they can get to. That will include the iPad, Android tablets, the Touchpad and Nook Color. The Kindle, strangely, and Playbook, less strangely, aren’t invited. [AllThingsD]

Software

New iPad Magazine From AOL Picks Good Reads For You

4:58AM August 3, 2011 | Mat Honan

Magazines rock, but most of them are doing about as well financially as a drunk at a Vegas craps table. Which is indirectly leading to interesting new digital media experiments like (*ahem*) Longshot magazine and tons of tablet publications. More »

Software

Why Is iPad-Head Girl Stalking Around New York City?

3:20AM August 2, 2011 | Kwame Opam

If I saw this girl walking by on the street, I’d be perplexed, too. I like it. But turns out it’s all part of a viral marketing campaign by Hearst Corporation to get you to buy… Cosmo for Guys? Ugh! More »