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The sensational story of the week highlights that Apple used its corporate influence to raid in Gizmodo's editor Jason Chen's house. The court documents which were recently unsealed saw Apple's attorney George Riley statement that said if details of the latest iPhone release are disclosed, it may cause a potential damage to the ongoing iPhone sales, as customers would wait for the new model rather than going with an older version.

Nintendo, a popular name in gaming arena unveiled its latest offering Wii Vitality in association with the American Heart Foundation. A blog from Destructoid. com hinted that the alliance will be displayed at the Vitality gaming peripheral at a joint press conference in New York.

This device, as the experts say, will keep a track of heart rates via peripheral connectivity that is attached to the gamers' fingers. The generated data will be monitored by the American Heart Foundation and will be analyzed for proper functioning. The blog also cued that Nintendo's upcoming 'Legend of Zelda game' might be compatible with the Wii Vitality gaming device.

The Taiwanese based maker of netbooks, Asus is developing a new notebook that utilizes a smartphone as a 3G dongle for connectivity. It seems that the Taiwanese maker is making headlines all way along as this netbook restricts the user to make use of specific range of models which are supposedly be lacking in features and may end up being priced uncompetitively, claims the manufacturer.

Google came up with its latest proclamation, hinting the release of its Google Voice application for students. The declaration that was made whilst the launch, claimed that users will be registered with the .edu domain, that, Google will send to interested students and allow them to join the services of the same, as taken from the Google Voice Blog.

Facebook has proclaimed that it wants to simplify the security settings, following the circulating controversies that take care of the users' privacy. The Vice-President of Facebook, Eliot Schrage stated that the company is putting in efforts to protect the privacy data and make the settings simpler for users to access, as reported to The Financial Times.

Google has fallen under the scanner from the European privacy regulators for its Street View project. This axing was enforced when Google disclosed that since 2006, it had been collecting private data about wireless networks which was required for the photo database for the Street View project.