Don't hold your breath: It's a long wait for the iPad 3 launch

Twiddling your thumbs waiting for the iPad 3 launch? We’ve got scoop on the hottest tidbits from around the Web, including a bit of a sticky situation for Google and the creepy potential of big data.

• Cross this off your Christmas list: The iPad 3 launch will be sometime in 2012.

• Nietzsche said that when you look into the void, it looks back. Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio asks the same question of big data.

• Proof that too big can be a bad thing: Google will face a Senate antitrust panel, as its growth is raising some eyebrows.

• Small businesses think they’re innovative, but maybe they’re just fooling themselves. A new study suggests that few small businesses bring anything truly new to the marketplace and instead merely improve upon an existing service.

• Netflix isn’t the first major corporation to anger its customer base. It joins Cisco, McDonald’s and Research in Motion in the Questionable Strategy Wall of Shame.

• Dreaming of a day when your computer can read your mind? That day might be sooner than you think.