Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Apple is a company that built hype around their product through secrecy and controlled leaks to the media. Gizmodo recently bought a stolen and unreleased iPhone, then posted pictures and a video on the Internet.

Two unreleased Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPod Touch devices have appeared on the auction website powered by eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY). The two devices are marked “DVT-1″ and “DVT-2.” They were also marked “Apple Development Team.” One of the devices is running a switchboard OS window too. The pictures look legitimate and the main difference is that there appears to be a digital camera on the back. The eBay listing for the devices were removed pretty quickly. Below are some additional screenshots. [9to5Mac.com]

Wordpress has been the blog platform of choice for publishers for a long time. The themes associated with WordPress have many different properties. Some publishers prefer certain color tones and a certain number of columns. Currently Pulse2.com has a two column-layout. The left column for content and the right column for advertisements and search. For this post, I decided to focus on three-columns.

The Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market has hit 50,000 applications according to stats by AndroLib.com, not making it official yet. Its only been about a week since the Android Market hit about 38,000 apps. Not a bad growth rate. Google is rapidly catching up to Apple’s 185,000+ apps on the App Store. What are some of your favorite apps on the Android Market? Let us know in the comments.

A new meme has taken the Internet by storm: putting Iron Man in movies he should not be in. Below are three video clips with some examples.

Philip James Conran, a cook that was on medical disability had a feud with his soccer mom neighbor. Both of them live in West Hartford, Connecticut. It is uncertain what the feud was about, but police discovered that Conran put a fake Craigslist ad for his neighbor. The Craigslist classifieds ad said “Looking for Lust” and it encouraged sexual encounters with strangers. The Craigslist ad had her full address and invited men to her house so she could “please as many as I can before I go to work!” Craigslist provided the IP address of the person that placed the ad and police arrested Conran. He is being charged for criminal trespass, risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment, and harassment. [TrueCrimeReport]

Fisker Automotive has closed a $529 million loan from the U.S. Energy Department for building electric vehicles. Fisker will be building plug-in hybrid vehicles in a Wilmington, Delaware plant that was recently closed by General Motors. Development of the Karma sports sedan will create about 2,000 new jobs. Fisker expects to hit full production by about 2015. [Reuters]

Ascentium has made an agreement to sell their U.S. Microsoft Dynamics CRM business to Avanade Inc., a joint venture company between Microsoft Corporation and Accenture plc. Ascentium co-founder and CEO Curt Dolittle said that the sale will allow the company focus on using emerging technologies for developing creative strategies with clients. Below is the full press release: