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

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.

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.

Mozilla is working on a Firefox browser for mobile devices and it looks likely that it will run on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux.

The Mozilla Foundation has decided to found a new subsidiary to handle ongoing development of the Thunderbird mail program. The Foundation is dedicating US$ 3 m to the new subsidiary.

The commercial version of the Eudora mail client was retired in October 2006. Now, a beta version of the new revitalized Eudora has just been released.

Ganeti is a software tool from Google's Zurich branch that manages virtual machines running on Xen. Developers working for the search engine enterprise have now released Ganeti under GPLv2.

The Yahoo search engine's developer team today released a new Open Source program library for Flash and Flex.

A 24-hour marathon will be taking place September 14 through 16 under the label of Mozilla 24 to give the Mozilla community the chance to talk to Web experts and university staff.