KOffice is among the 15 projects presenting their work to CeBIT visitors 2010, offering a free office suite.

Following the European Commission's OK to Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has now released a statement from their top management about MySQL and Solaris.

Nokia has released an alpha version of a new office viewer for the N900 smartphone. The software named Freoffice, installable under Maemo, is based on KOffice project code.

Skype has released a beta version of its chat and VoIP program for Linux under the code-name Talking Screens. Despite the minor version number change, the software has many new features.

The annual OpenOffice conference takes place this year the end of September in Budapest. The project is also looking for suggestions for 2011.

The US-wide sales ban of Microsoft Word spoken by a Texan court in August has been upheld.

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The arrival of Linux on portable and mobile devices provides so many interesting opportunities for customization. This month we look at Linux in portable and mobile environments.