Tech Update

• Ashampoo Gives Away $117 worth of Programs : Ashampoo is well known for making offers users can’t refuse. Also, the quality of the software it develops has become to impose the market standard on several occasions.

• Skype Introduces 10-Way Video Calling : Skype — apparently pleased with its five-way beta group video-calling functionality — has just released a new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows that doubles group support. It now allows for up to 10 video callers.

• Facebook Beefs Up Security with Remote Logout Feature : Facebook is bolstering the security of user accounts through the launch of a new feature that gives users the ability to see their overall account activity and remotely log out of active sessions.

• Apple’s Xbox Live-like Game Center to Launch Next Week : Next week, Apple will launch Game Center for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The app and platform will allow video game players to track one another’s achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games.

• Apple Launches New iPod Nano with FM Radio, Multi-Touch UI : Alongside the new iPod touch, Apple unveiled a completely redesigned iPod nano featuring a Multi-Touch interface, a combination of features typical to the existing shuffle and nano lines of Apple players, as well as built-in FM radio.

• Net neutrality: what does it mean? : The end of net neutrality could mean the the end of the open, free and equal internet that we take for granted

• Samsung Unleashes iPad Competitor : The Galaxy Tab has a seven-inch display and weighs .84 pounds. It comes with 16GB or 32GB of internal storage Relevant Products/Services and a 32GB microSD expansion slot. The iPad competitor also features a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, GPS, 802.11 and Bluetooth.

• Mozilla Introduces Fennec Alpha For Android (2.0 Or Higher), Nokia N900 : Mozilla this morning introduced the Alpha release of the next version of its mobile browser Fennec for Android and Nokia N900.

• iPod nano 6G Coming on September 1 – Rumor : A Chinese case vendor claims have gotten hold of fourth-generation iPod touch and sixth-generation iPod nano cases, posting images of the parts in question.

• Gmail Bug Turned Some Users into Spammers : Tech This week, a Gmail bug caused duplicate messages to be sent from some user accounts. In certain cases, the same messages were sent over and over for several days, which, as you can imagine, must have been extremely annoying.

• Paul Allen sues Apple, Google over patents : Four patents held by a research organization the Microsoft co-founder ran are at the heart of lawsuits against 10 prominent companies, including Yahoo, eBay, and Staples.

• Make Free Call to Phones from Gmail : Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”

• Apple Releases Security update 2010-005 for OS X 10.5 and 10.6 : Apple has released a security update for OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.5 machines, which addresses a number of security holes for both the client and server versions of OS X. For both the client and server versions, the update fixes several problems that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

• Watch Full Movies on YouTube for Free : YouTube has introduced new free movies service after successfully striking a deal with US-based Studios like Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures as well as Blinkbox in the UK. A catalog of full length 400 movies that include both Hollywood and Bollywood flicks is available at http://www.youtube.com/movies.

• Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches September 15 : Diaspora, the much-hyped open source alternative to Facebook, will release its code to the world on September 15, but promises that its creators are just getting started.

• Intel to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion : Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion–the biggest acquisition in its 42-year history. The chipmaker said Thursday it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee’s common stock at $48 per share in cash.

• Facebook Chat to Drop IE6 Support : If you are still using Internet Explorer 6.0, Facebook has a new incentive for you to move onward and upward: Facebook Chat.