Following the withdrawal of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth from the day to day running of the company, and his replacement by Jane Silber, Matt Asay has now moved into the free post of chief operating officer.

Under the motto "Reuse components, don't reinvent the wheel," Friedger Mueffke, founder of OpenIntents, described his project and its next steps. Using so-called intents, Android apps can provide services to other apps.

Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.

Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.

The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.

Palm hits the gas pedal: with a six-figure monetary award for the most downloaded webOS applications the California company wants to heat up the app development market.

Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.

Navit is among the 15 projects to present their work during CeBIT 2010, offering an open-source navigation with support for many mapping formats.