In a announcement made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chip manufacturer AMD attributes job losses to poor figures in this quarter.

It's official: Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has been accepted as a new standard at a second hearing

The Linux Foundation, which also employs Linus Torvalds, has welcomed Adobe as a new member in a press release.

Our sister publication, Linux Magazine Brazil, is providing quasi-real time coverage of INdT's Bossa Conference in both English and Portuguese. Linux Magazine Brazil Editor Pablo Hess is on site at the event in Recife and will be interviewing famous names from the Open Source scene exclusively for Linux Magazine. Read on for his initial report.

The Linux company Red Hat has acquired system integrators Amentra and is now seeking to strengthen its Jboss business unit.

The One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) organization is looking for a successor to founder and visionary Nicholas Negroponte; restructuring is already underway. The Linux Foundation, the organization that promotes the interests of Linux as a whole, and of its inventor Linus Torvalds, has a vacancy for a Community Manager.

The ISO standardization organization meeting convened to discuss OOXML has now come to an end and contradictory reports on the proceedings have caused some concern. So much so, that ISO has now issued a statement.