Oops! Hef misspoke about the iPad offering. Twitter Playboy plans to bare it all anew in March with a Web subscription service that offers the full catalog of the venerable men’s magazine. The news was revealed yesterday by none other than the magazine’s famed founder and bon vivant, Hugh Hefner, though it turns out that …

Verizon Wireless Upset because you just bought a Verizon phone but now crave the new iPhone? The good news: Verizon will give you a $200 gift card if you swap your current phone for an iPhone. The bad news: You’ll still need to pay the full retail price for the iPhone. Nestled about halfway down on Verizon’s iPhone FAQ is …

Android has surged ahead of Apple for the first time as the most popular smartphone OS, according to Millennial Media’s mobile ad network. In Millennial Media’s December report, Google’s mobile operating system won 46 percent of all ad impressions (the number of times an ad is displayed), compared with 32 percent for Apple’s iOS. In November, the two operating systems …

Apple’s App Store remains the mobile-app marketplace king with the largest number of titles, but Android Market saw the highest growth last year, surging by more than 500 percent, according to a report released yesterday by Distimo. Tracking the growth of the major mobile-app stores for the U.S., the 2010 Distimo Report found that the Apple App Store grew the …

Intuit is offering some healthy incentives to get small businesses to adopt its GoPayment mobile payment service. Intuit Launched in 2009, GoPayment lets small business owners process credit card payments on the go by using a card reader that attaches to a compatible mobile phone. Normally, the card reader costs money, while the service entails a monthly fee. But as …

A Galaxy S smartphone Samsung Samsung has sold 10 million Galaxy S smartphones since their launch in June, according to the company. That means the Korean phone maker has reached its sales target for the Android-based phones, the company said yesterday in an e-mail to Bloomberg. The phones also helped Samsung boost overall sales and earnings for the third quarter. …

AT&T is expanding Wi-Fi access in New York and San Francisco where customers have run into trouble with the carrier’s overcrowded celluar network, according to the Associated Press. The company is due to announce today that it will expand its Wi-Fi hot zone this week in New York City’s Times Square, which launched in May. “Hot zone” is a term …

Fifty-one percent of 25- to 29-year-olds live in households that have kicked the landline habit, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is the first time that wireless-only households have surpassed landline households among any age group, according to the CDC’s report released yesterday. The report, which surveyed 17,619 households over the six …

An illustration of the ‘PaintPot’ tutorial application written with Google App Inventor for Android. Google Anyone can now be an Android app designer. Google’s App Inventor, which was previously available to people only on request, is now free for anyone who wants to create their own Android smartphone apps. Part of the Google Labs playground, App Inventor offers you a …

Verizon is testing a new service that could eliminate the need for a dedicated landline account. Known as Home Phone Connect, the service would let Verizon Wireless subscribers make calls from their landline phones using Verizon’s cellular network, allowing them to share minutes between their cell phones and home phones. Customers would be able to keep their existing landline phones …