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Apple’s iPad is barely a few days old, and it’s already facing potential litigation. On the heals of China vs Google battling over censorship and Gmail hacking issues, Apple is having its own altercations with the Chinese. This time around, instead of debates with the government, Apple is being held up by bandits, literally.

As an online editorial cartoonist, I pay homage here to some of the finest new and established cartoonists that are focusing their editorial commentary on social media. Like myself, many of these cartoonists have found the Web 2.0 world is just as exciting and newsworthy as political commentary

Sure, you can get a list of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2010 anywhere.  But you want to see the designs, not just read their names on a list!  So, we’ve gathered them for you.  Focusing on the best interior design awards, here are 11 of the 22 winning furniture designs, plus the Wallpaper* Furniture Designer of the Year winner in Part 1.

Camel milk chocolate is coming to Japan… Will that be one hump or two?

Steve Jobs, after having parted the Red Seas of Apple-land with the release of his iPod and iPhone was looking for a new challenge. So while leading the flock of the digerati to the promised land of sweet new gadgets, it was important not to divulge too much in advance

It’s hard to resist Dima Loginoff’s designs; they’re so conceptually rich, drawing in so many aspects of history, art, and social commentary.  Perhaps none of Loginoff’s creations to date are as evocative as his concept chair, Dounyasha .

Don’t get me wrong; I’m crazy about the Barstool from Supernatural Studios.  There’s just something so alive about it, that if that big duck-footed base were split in two, I would half expect it to walk away, or around, or dance maybe!

Back in September, I predicted that Twitter would acquire oneforty.com, ” the Twitter Store of Apps ,” where one could shop to his or her heart’s content for any app under the Twitter sun. Not only did that prediction come to past, but today, oneforty is juggling the launch of its Premium Twitter App marketplace with a $1.85 million dollar round of funding.

In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

When you can’t get things done the way you’d like them done – Diversify, Diversify, Diversify! Google staying true to itself…that is, doing whatever it bloody well likes – has applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be allowed to buy and sell power much like utilities do.