The Finnish cellphone manufacturer Nokia is looking to acquire the Norwegian software enterprise Trolltech for around 104 million euros.

As part of the KDE 4.0 release event, Trolltech CEO, Haavard Nord, announced that the Qt library would be released under GPLv3. Qt is an important framework for the KDE Linux desktop system.

Indian software developer Synovel released the latest 0.4 version of its groupware client, Spicebird, just a few days ago.

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.

Lars Knoll is to become part of the Trolltech management team. As Vice President of Engineering, he will lead the developer teams in Norway, Germany and Australia.

Novell has published its business figures for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2007, and reports losses.

Mono developer and Novell employee Miquel de Icaza reported on the progress being made by Moonlight at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. Moonlight is the Linux variant of Microsoft’s Silverlight solution.

Software giant Novell has postponed the publication of its figures for the fourth quarter, and for the whole financial year 2007.