Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on using the Open Document Format as a standard and is therefore changing its clients over to OpenOffice.

Adobe has put its attention to solving the vulnerability problems in its PDF Reader and Acrobat software.

Google's latest release, Android 2.1, comes not only with the mobile operating system but also a developer kit.

The Amarok project has made version 2.2.2 of its KDE music player available for download. The new version includes a couple of new features next to many detail changes.

Development is moving forward on Symbian, a mobile phone operating system that is largely under free licensing. Version 3 should show all its planned features by the first quarter of 2010.

The Pardus team has published the first release candidate of its Linux distribution with the slightly confusing version number 2009.1.

Video clip editors have been in short supply under Linux. Jonathan Thomas is now trying to fill that gap with the first stable version of the OpenShot Video Editor.

The very frugal ttylinux distro is available in version 9.1.

The first smartphones based on Intel's Moorestown, the Mini 5 with Android and the Lenovo LePhone: the mobile Linux highlights from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

The Linux-based instant-on operating system for fast access to the Web and chat adds more functions in version 2.0.