Google Chrome in the stable and beta channel has been updated to version 6. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. If you are using either the stable or beta channel, a simple update should get you Google Chrome 6.

Ksplice is now offering their tool Ksplice Uptrack for free for Fedora. Ksplice Uptrack is a really cool tool which allows you to update the Linux Kernel without rebooting.

Microsoft is gradually jumping on the Social bandwagon by leveraging the power of Facebook. After launching Docs.com, Microsoft has launched a new social crossword game called – Team Crossword.

Diaspora becomes available to developers from September 15. Users will, however, have to wait for the alpha in October.

Empathy, the default IM client in GNOME, is getting a brand new feature – meta-contacts. It allows you to group together different services belonging to the same user into one.

GMail has introduced a new feature today – Priority Inbox. Now GMail will sort your incoming emails to decide which ones needs a reply from you and which ones you can look at later.

The latest version of Chromium from the Dev Channel now has the apps section and a link for the Chrome Web Store by default.

Supposedly this is the default wallpaper in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Yuck!

Canonical planned on introducing Btrfs support in the upcoming Ubuntu release, i.e. Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. According to a recent update in the Ubuntu Btrfs Support blueprints, Btrfs will not make it to Maverick.

Diaspora, your privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network gears up for it’s first release on September 15, 2010!

In order to fix all the issues associated with Facebook Chat, the Facebook chat team has decided to discontinue chat support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and has pushed some bug fixes.

Google Chrome 7 is now available in the development channel for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 has been released with support for Panorama (formerly Tab Candy) and Sync.

Gnash (or GNU Flash Player) 0.88 has been released yesterday. The new version is now completely compatible with YouTube videos.

Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, have confirmed that Steam is not coming to Linux anytime soon.

Yesterday, the KDE client for UbuntuOne entered the Alpha stage. Apart from the usual UbuntuOne stuffs like syncing stuffs, it also has a few features which you do not get even with the UbuntuOne client for Ubuntu.

The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail Videochat! The GMail team recently announced the availability of voice and video chat on Linux.

The social bookmarking website – Digg.com had closed registrations for time being as they were revamping the portal. The wait is now over, as Digg is finally out with their all new Digg Alpha version.

Facebook’s much awaited Location feature has finally launched – titled “Facebook Places”, it allows users to “check in” at locations which is then shared with their friends.

Mark Shuttleworth has just announced the codename of the next Ubuntu release after Maverick i.e. Ubuntu 11.04. Ubuntu 11.04 will be called Natty Narwhal.

Apple now plans on using the amorphous metal alloys developed by Liquidmetal Technologies in the design and development of their next generation wireless antenna.

The second beta of the KDE microblogging client Choqok 1.0 has been released today. This release is codenamed “Reloaded” and according to the developers “it’s quit stable and usable now”.

A new version of Colibri has been released, Colibri 0.2.1. It brings a number of improvements both with the notifications and the configuration module.

In today’s build of Minefield (Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 Pre) in the Mozilla Daily Build PPA in Launchpad, Tab Candy is finally available. If you want to try it out, you can install Minefield alongside your normal Firefox installation.