The Open Office community is currently meeting at the University of Barcelona, Spain. The OOoCon 2007, which ends on Friday, focuses on the free office package and related topics such as Open Document Format.

Software manufacturer Trolltech has ported Qtopia Phone Edition to the Neo 1973 mobile phone, and released the source code at the same time.

The Java server includes Netbeans and is released under a dual license: Sun CDDL v1.0 and GPL v2.

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 Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD) 1.0 aims to offer what the media artist's heart desires, audio, video and imaging. And it aims to help users migrate from Windows.

The results of a survey that asked 955 organizations in the public sector from 13 EU countries about their affinity to Open Source software were recently released. At the same time, the survey investigated six Open Source development projects maintained by public authorities.

A moderately critical vulnerability was discovered in the QUtf8Decoder of Trolltech's Qt Framework.

Version 2.3 of the popular Open Office suite was released today. Downloads are already available on many mirror servers.

The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg today confirmed a decision by the EU Commission to fine Microsoft 497 million euros.

SCO filed for protection under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy laws on Friday.