Cooper's out for summer, Cooper's out forever

That's right, Anderson Cooper's out of the closet. To sum it up, he's here, he's queer, get used to it. But we've got more serious issues to deal with:

• More than two years after releasing its game-changing tablet computer, Apple now actually owns the name "iPad." A Chinese court says the company has paid $60 million to Taiwanese firm Shenzhen Proview Technology for the rights, nailing down the name as its own in a country that is increasingly becoming a huge market for electronics. This is a well-deserved victory for Apple, even though they had to pay for it. Maybe they should buy the Android name from Google in a similar manner.
• Manchester United said yesterday that it plans to raise about $100 million in an initial public offering of its shares in the United States. Man United has a powerful brand (although not the Premier League title) but also a high level of debt, and they are raising that money to pay some of their debt off before next season. I hope they do, and I hope it doesn't turn into a PR disaster like Facebook's IPO earlier this year.
• Everyone's made a joke they thought was funny only to see it fall flat, but Park Jung-geun's attempt at humour could see him jailed for up to seven years in South Korea. Park, a photographer by profession, re-tweeted some messages from North Korea's official twitter feed, such as reports on the late leader Kim Jong Il's travels across the country and negative tweets about South Korea. He also took a photo of himself holding a whiskey bottle and edited in a North Korean flag as a background for a joke. His supporters then doctored a North Korean military poster, replacing a smiling soldier with a sad photo of Park and the image of the gun with another whiskey bottle. I don't believe that he's a North Korean spy, but this is one of the worst ideas for a joke (click here and scroll to about one minute into the video to see another bad idea for a joke in action) and he should at least be made to realise that there are consequences for this.