CeBIT 2010

Under the motto "Reuse components, don't reinvent the wheel," Friedger Mueffke, founder of OpenIntents, described his project and its next steps. Using so-called intents, Android apps can provide services to other apps.

Mollify is a PHP application for managing and downloading files from a web server. The new version 1.5 comes with numerous changes.

Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.

The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.

Among the 15 projects presenting their work at CeBIT 2010, WordPress is offering an open source online publishing system for the web.

Palm hits the gas pedal: with a six-figure monetary award for the most downloaded webOS applications the California company wants to heat up the app development market.

Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.

John Newton, founder and CTO of the Alfresco Software content management system (CMS) company, has announced a licensing change from GPL to LGPL for the software. The change should go into effect the next Alfresco community version.