Google’s mobile phone has been dubbed Android and is actually an Open Source platform with an operating system and applications.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results today for its fiscal first quarter, which ended September 30, 2007.

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Prism, the pre-release version of an application that removes a Web application’s reliance on a browser. The software, which was previously only available for Windows, is now available as version 0.8 for Linux and Mac OS X.

A vulnerability in the extended text editor GNU Emacs gives local attackers the ability to run arbitrary code.

On November 1, 2007, the Federal Open Source Alliance released the results of its Federal Open Source Referendum Study, which provides new insight into the current adoption rates, trends, benefits, challenges, and success rates of open source implementation within Federal agencies.

Version 4.0.0 of System Imager, a software for automating the installation of Linux computers and for software distribution has just been released.

The Mozilla Foundation has departed from its normal release cycle to fix several bugs and the remaining security holes in version 2.0.0.8 of the Firefox web browser.

Nigeria's Classmate PCs will not run on Mandriva Linux, but on Windows.

Just over four months ago, Sun's chief open source strategist, Ian Murdock, revealed the first details of plans for an open source variant of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now the first developer version has been released.

An organization calling itself the Open Document Foundation has given rise to rumors and speculation concerning the free document standard Open Document Format, ODF, of late. Leading members of the ODF Alliance say that it would be wrong to overestimate the significance of the Open Document Foundation.