A world record attempt has been launched today: starting at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the new Firefox 3 browser became available for downloading. And that's not all: the makers of Firefox are seeking to make their way into the Guinness Book of Records.

Michael Ogawa from the University of California has devised a technique for visualizing the historic development of software projects with his Code Swarm experiment.

Linux New Media, the world's leading Linux content provider, has announced the purchase of assets related to InfoStrada's Linux Magazine.

The Facebook social network has released part of its source code under the "Facebook Open Platform" label, including the F8 developer platform which was released one year ago.

The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa recently hosted the third Idlelo conference, which focused on "Making the Knowledge Economy Work for Africa."

Should free development be a part of free software, or is Apache pioneer Roy Fielding asking too much of Sun? Besides looking at the commercial side of free software, this month's column investigates synchronization of speech and text.