Nokia issued its first release candidate for Qt 4.5 that includes, among other things, translucent widgets.

Blender is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering 3-Dimensional Software Creation for professionals.

In the classic business of high end infrastructure, Sun has been experiencing diminishing sales. The company recently presented its sales figures at the Munich preview to the CeBIT trade show, which opens in March, along with a hint of what they will focus on at the show.

Andi Gutmans, cofounder of Zend Technologies, has been named CEO of "the PHP company" in California.

The Cell architecPIture is finding its way into a vast range of computer systems – from huge supercomputers to inauspicious Playstation game consoles. We'll show you around the Cell and take a look at a sample Cell application.

Parted Magic, the live distribution with Gparted and other tools to create, modify and secure hard drive partitions is now available in version 3.5. And thanks to the Linux 2.6.28.2 kernel, the new version comes with support for ext4 file systems.

Sun Microsystems has brought the GlassFish Java application server up to its newest state with version 2.1.

Developer Stefan Dirsch is responsible for maintaining the openSUSE build scripts of the fglrx driver. In a message on the openSUSE developer mailing list, he appeals for a successor to take over the maintenance.