Apple said on Wednesday that it and its partners took more than 600,000 orders on Tuesday for its new iPhone 4, which will be released next week. AT&T, its wireless partner in the United States, said it was suspending preorders for the phone.

Google’s headaches over its collection of private data from Wi-Fi networks are intensifying. Attorneys general from about 30 states are investigating whether Google violated any laws when vehicles used by the company to snap pictures for the Street View service also collected snippets of personal information sent over unsecured wireless networks.

On Sunday evening, AT&T sent an e-mail message to owners of the Apple 3G iPad notifying them of a security breach that was publicized early last week. The message, sent by Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and chief privacy officer at AT&T, explained that a number of iPad 3G owners’ e-mail addresses, along with a private identification number known as an ICC-ID, were made public through a breach in AT&T’s Web site. The company also apologized for the security error.

Facebook’s nearly half a billion users are now uploading 20 million videos each month, many of which are shared through mobile phones.

Many mainstream news organizations have long viewed Google News as a threat to their interests. But more recently, Google has been portrayed as sensitive to the health of the news media. Eric Schmidt, its chief executive, has worried openly about a world without high-quality journalism.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that it was investigating a security breach on AT&T’s Web site that allowed a security group to obtain the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G owners.

It all started with a little spring cleaning and quickly turned into a construction project. Early last month, Google, the search engine, decided it was time to spruce things up a little and rolled out a re-design of its Web site search pages. A rare event, it was only the eighth time the homepage design had changed since the company started in 1998.

A hacking group has obtained the e-mail addresses of 114,000 owners of 3G iPads by exploiting a security hole on AT&T’s Web site, according to a report by Gawker.

Farmers and mobsters, get ready to jump into a covered wagon, head west and settle a homestead. Zynga, the social gaming powerhouse behind mega-hits like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, on Wednesday is rolling out its latest creation: FrontierVille, a western-themed Facebook game that the San Francisco-based start-up hopes will become its newest cash cow.

There was e-book news on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference: Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-book sales.