With all that happened this week, we wanted to provide you with a quick rundown of tech news to get you through the weekend.

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Sues Everyone within earshot – including Apple, Google, Ebay and eight other companies for copyright infringement. A Google spokesperson’s take on the lawsuits? “It reflects an unfortunate trend of people trying to compete in the courtroom instead of the marketplace.” Read more on WSJ.com.

Google buys social media startup Angstro and hires its founder, Rohit Khare, to help build social networking service, Google Me. What does this mean? Google really, really wants to be in the social networking fight, and are trying to figure out how. More at LATimes.com

The iPod Touch 4G will be shaped more like the iPhone 4G, sans the shatter-prone glass on the back, a source familiar with the matter reports. The shape will be “similar the top of a MacBook Pro, only smaller,which is to say flat rather than curved at the center. Reported by iLounge.com.

Netflix Instant comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Netflix announced an app that allows Netflix users to stream Netflix Instant content on their iPhone or iPod Touch devices similar to their app for the iPad, but  re-jiggered for the smaller screens. It will be convenient for some, irrelevant for others. Check out our post here.

CollegeOnly launches as a social network only for college students. Kind of like Facebook 5 years ago. The site’s founder, Josh Weinstein, says that CollegeOnly and Facebook can happily coexist. This is likely true, as Facebook happily coexists with the thousands of other niche social networking sites with their minuscule  market shares. Reported in NYTimes.com.

Amazon launched a slimmer, quicker version of the Kindle. Verdict? It’s an eBook in an iPad world. But that’s what some of use need. Here’s Engadget’s review of the new device.

Microsoft will invest $500 million in the launch of Windows Phone 7 this Holiday season. Time will tell if that will work for them, although I won’t be betting money on it. At least not half a billion dollars. Crunchgear.com reports.

After Chris Pirillo wrote 100 Mac tips for our blog we asked you to tweet to @ParallelsMac on Twitter with your favorite Mac tip for a chance to win an Apple Magic Trackpad or a copy of Parallels Desktop 5.  Congratulations to our randomly chosen winners: splitjewel, 25zerotwo and David Canerday.  They submitted great tips, as did all of our contest participants.  Check out some of our favorites:

1. You can Force Quit an application from the option in the Apple m­­­­enu.

2. Hold Cmd to drag the icons in your menu bar and re-arrange them.

3. Tap or click the trackpad on a Mac laptop with two fingers to right-click, instead of using the Command key.

4. You can narrow your search in Spotlight by using kind:<type> where type can be any filetype as described by the Finder, for example jpg, pdf, numbers, etc…

5. You can remap the otherwise useless caps-lock key in keyboard preferences to ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃

6. While In A Windows V/M Cntrl + Option + Delete Will Open The Windows Task Manager, Just Like On A Real PC.

7. Hitting “X” only closes a window, not the whole app. To close the whole app and free up resources use CMD+Q.

8. Use GeekTool and a text document to make an easy todo list on your desktop.

9. Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/MenuServices and double click any of the .menu items to add to menu bar

10. Efficient way to eject stuck CD/DVD: open Terminal and type ” drutil tray eject ” this often works and saves rebooting

11. Use Parallels in full screen mode on a separate desktop space. Now you can switch to Win using alt+cursor keys

12. Use your spotlight to do quick calculations rather than the calculator