Steve Jobs presented the iPad tablet computer in San Francisco among great anticipation.

With version 3.3.0, the free spam filter SpamAssassin has its first big release since May, 2007.

For the fifth bugfix and translation update for the KDE Software Compilation 4.3, developers tackled among other things some hideous directory manifestations.

Lucidor, the free program for reading and organizing ebooks, now available in version 0.9 comes with the ability to read OPDS catalogs.

The Mpath-tools serve for redundant Internet connections of a site over multiple, heterogeneous ISPs. The currently released version 1.0.0 is enriched with a monitoring Web interface.

The system monitor Atop is available as version 1.24 and is complete with a variety of enhancements.

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has received the Theodor Heuss Medal for 2010.

SourceForge, the hosting and communication platform for many free software projects, is bowing to U.S. regulations and denying service to users from nations on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.

The open source backup software Bacula has surpassed the 1 million mark in Sourceforge's download statistics.

The team at Ubuntu is trying to get users views as to which programs should be included in future versions of Ubuntu. The survey will be online until the end of January.