Apple has sold more than two million iPads since the tablet computer debuted on April 3, freeing at least that many people from the oppressive shackles of pornography and the tyranny of Flash-based web video. [CNET]

The New York Post report today that the Justice Department has been calling "a handful of the country's biggest media and technology companies," to get their views on Apple. A prospect that cannot fill Steve Jobs with confidence.

There's been a thirteenth suicide attempt at the Foxconn factory in China. Slit wrists.

When the GQ iPad app launched, a measly 365 people bought it. Probably by accident. Sister magazine Wired, however, sold 24,000 in their first 24 hours. Maybe because theirs is, you know, good and stuff. [NYT]

Apple hates people walking off with its iPhones, but it's hard to imagine CEO Steve Jobs going as far as Roger Witter. The Oregon illustrator fired two rounds at thieves stealing iPhones from an AT&T store.

A worker at iPhone manufacturer FoxConn has fallen to his death—the tenth such incident this year.

Apple's market capitalization surpassed Microsoft's today. Only Exxon Mobil is larger, among public U.S. companies.

Who knew that a bit of Velcro attached to an iPad could result in a match made in tech Heaven? Here, the two products are used to make a car/motorcycle GPS device, a picture frame, a wall-mounted TV and more.

The Justice Department is looking into whether Apple's iTunes Store violated antitrust law, according to the New York Times. It's at least the fourth federal inquiry into the company in less than a year.

The Chinese workers who build Apple products keep killing themselves, so their employer has asked them to sign a pledge they won't commit suicide. The actual document is after the jump.

Yesterday 21-year-old Nan Gang, a worker at the hellish Chinese Foxconn factory where iPhones and iPads are made, jumped off the roof and killed himself. That brings the number of attempted suicides to 11. (Two survived.)

Amid criticism from advocates for the poor, Apple reversed a policy that saw a disabled woman turned away from an Apple Store while trying to buy an iPad with cash. Apple just never imagined this situation. Cash? Really?

Diane Campbell scrimped and saved from her fixed income for an iPad, but was turned away at a Silicon Valley Apple Store because you need a credit card to buy one. Apple wouldn't budge, even when local ABC affiliate appealed.

If there's one enduring lesson I took away from my late-night argument with Steve Jobs, it's that Apple's relationship with the public is undergoing a quiet revolution. Are we about to see a new, more open Apple?

Are you an Apple fanboy or fangirl searching the internet highway for love? This new video by Dr. CoolSex reminds us exactly why a dating service like Cupidtino is the most ridiculous idea ever.

I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about "freedom from porn."

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is "coping well with his health issues" and working full tilt, but he's struggling to put on weight, say associates. That sounds about right : It takes a vigorous man to piss this many people off.

A British fashion magazine has reportedly dubbed its iPad issue "the Iran edition" due to the requirement to remove nipples and other body parts to get content on Apple's tablet computer. Call this the "Apple chilling effect."

Today in totally benign apps Apple thinks it needs to protect us from: German electro-punk band Atari Teenage Riot has developed an app which plays crazy sounds. The German iTunes store has delayed its release because it might cause "hysteria."

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