Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP are to be pooled into one open-sourced ber-platform, came out of the blue.
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood.
The Ogg Vorbis project to create a fully open, licence-free alternative to the MP3 format got a boost with the recent release of the first Ogg player for a handheld device.
Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.
The LiMo Foundation released the first full version of its mobile phone platform on Monday.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
It may have had its share of teething pains, but medical clinic chain Medi 7 has used its VoIP and open source Asterisk PABX rollout to improve call routing and slash thousands of dollars in telecommunications costs.
Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?
With the acquisition of Trolltech, Nokia has made its largest bet yet on changing the course of the industry.
With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.
Linux Labs has released a beta version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds.
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
The Linux development kernel now supports wireless 'personal area networks', but ordinary users won't see the software for a while yet.
IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?
The electronics giant is releasing details of the internal architecture of a humanoid robot to help programmers write their own code.
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