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.

With April 3rd approaching, vendors and users are brewing with excitement for the Apple iPad release.  Whether or not Amazon is happy with the creation of the competing Kindle, it is clear that Amazon is looking at the iPad as a business opportunity.  Instead of taking a defensive point of view, Amazon has created an iPad Kindle app to leverage this channel of business.  This app will allow users to buy books from the Kindle library.  While Amazon could have had an ego-war with Apple, it is clear that Amazon has a larger vision ahead of Apple.

Amazon will essentially be making profit from their competitor and will have traffic being driven to their site because of Apple.  With the projections of the iPad to grow at least to half a million sales [via 9to5mac], Amazon will surely profit.  So the real question is, is Amazon truly a friend of Apple, or is Amazon keeping its enemies closer?

Steve Jobs actually has not said anything yet, but with the recent Amazon purchase of Touchco, a smaller company that manufactures cheap multitouch displays, his cockiness may not last as long.  Granted that the Kindle won’t have the ability like the iPad to have an iBook library or iTunes, or the ability for FPS games, Amazon is still trying to get into the game.  The Touchco screen is pressue sensitive which means that this screen “can detect an infinite number of simultaneous touches. Plus, it’s totally transparent (old school resistive touchscreen layers dim brightness and dull colors) and designed to work with full color LCD screens” [via Gizmodo].  Look at how the Touchco screen works:

Touchco GUI example from Nick Bilton on Vimeo. [video via NYT]

With this new technology emerging, Steve Jobs better watch his back.  Even with his secret trip to New York to meet with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times regarding potentially bringing content from those resources to the iPad, the competition continues to grow [via MacRumors].  So in conclusion, I hope that Jobs enjoyed his dinner with the 50 New York Time’s execs and his specially ordered mango lassi and penne pasta off the menu, because who knows, maybe Jeff Bezos was ordering his strawberry daiquiry at the table behind him.

Steve Jobs plays tough guy.  Today, Jobs announced the iPad while saying that “Netbooks aren’t good for anything” and that Apple is going to stand on the shoulders of the Kindle and go a bit further.  Those are pretty bold statements by Jobs, but with a battery life of 10 hours and being only 0.5 inches thin and 1.5 pounds with a 9.76 IPS display, he has the right to be cocky.  Furthermore, users have the ability to choose between two different data plans from AT&T: one plan is for $14.99 a month for 250 MG of data and the second plan is for $29.99 for an unlimited plan.  Both of these plans allow people to not have a contract and allow users the ability to cancel anytime with AT&T, which is going to lure people to get the iPad.  Check out these prices for the iPad:

The iPad also acts as a e-book reader.  Through engaging in discussion of the iPad, Apple has spoken with some publishers such as Penguin, Harper Collins and etc., to allow users to buy from the new iBook store where you can build your book collection in your e-library.

So what is going to happen to the Kindle? Buh Bye Kindle.

[via Engadget]