1. , and : The release of Apple's iPhone 4 into the wild drew long lines of those eager to be among the first to own the new smartphone. Soon enough, users began to report problems with the wireless antenna. Steve Jobs called it a non-issue, while Apple released a statement suggesting that iPhone 4 users "avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band." OK, then.

2. and : Motorola's Droid X also made its splashy debut this week.

3. : A U.S. District Court judge dismissed Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube, ending (at least for this round) a nasty legal spat that dragged on for more than three years.

4. : In other Google-related legal news, up to 30 U.S. states could become part of an investigation into the company's gathering of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The company has acknowledged that it made a mistake, but has said it didn't break any U.S. laws. Google also faces probes over such data gathering in various European countries as well.

5. and : The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the .xxx domain for adult Web sites and Chinese language top-level domains.