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With version 9.1, the latest iteration of its free Web browser, Opera joins competitors Microsoft and Mozilla by prominently featuring anti-phishing and anti-fraud measures. In order to bring the new security functionality to its browser, Norway-based Opera partnered with digital certificate provide...

IBM last week unveiled a new Open Collaborative Research program, through which technology and results from IBM Research will be made available to the faculty and students of several top universities: Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue, Rutgers, UC Berkeley and UC Dav...

XenSource wants its open source Xen virtualization technology to win over large enterprise customers, and now the company is eyeing smaller, wider markets with new virtualization products aimed at Windows and more mainstream IT users. On the heels of last month's release of XenEnterprise, XenSource ...

Heavy open source software user and Internet search giant Google this week unveiled a fully open source version of its Google Web Toolkit, GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, available for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The toolkit, built around Google's code for Asynchronous Javascript and ...

Microsoft and Novell this week touted results of a recent survey -- sponsored by both companies -- indicating that nearly all IT customers at large organizations overwhelmingly approved of their Windows-Linux interoperability and patent protection deal. Of 201 survey respondents whose organizations ...

Web site operators and bloggers will get free Web hosting, including all advertising revenue from their sites, with a new service called "OpenServing" from the Wikipedia for-profit company Wikia. OpenServing will "extend the essence of the open source model," delivering not only free software and co...

Fortify Software and the FindBugs Java error detection project this week unveiled a collaborative effort aimed at zapping the bugs of open source software code written in Java. The Java Open Review Project is designed to help open source software projects identify and fix security and other softwar...

Microsoft's Open XML office software format, pushed by the tech giant to compete with the Open Document Format, cleared a standards hurdle this week, winning approval from the Ecma international standards body. The vote was not unanimous, however, as ODF supporter and Ecma member IBM gave Microsoft'...

With reported fiscal fourth quarter 2006 revenue of US$245 million, Novell missed Wall Street estimates and expectations this week, causing the software and services company stock price to slip more than 9 percent. Novell, which went through major leadership changes this year, also indicated that it...

The One Laptop Per Child Project, an effort spearheaded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte aimed at delivering functional, educational laptop computers to children in developing nations, is looking to wealthier nations to buy its computers for those in need. The project, which looks to rely on ine...

Novell is working with Microsoft and other developers to create bidirectional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. The companies said the first translator, for word processing, will be available by the end of Jan. 2007.

IBM announced this week that 372 new Linux on Power applications were released in 2006, yielding a total of 2,500 tested Linux-based solutions available for the Power processor platform. In addition, Big Blue announced the latest Linux on Power application, the Sybase Unwired Accelerator, which offe...

Mobile Linux is one of the fastest growing markets and has the potential to be the largest segment in Linux. With literally billions of mobile devices in the market, Linux on mobile could outstrip both Linux-based desktops and servers combined, according to a la Mobile CEO Pauline Alker. By all acco...

Novell unveiled its new Open Enterprise Server 2 this week, completing a shift of Novell workgroup solutions, particularly NetWare, over to the Suse Linux platform. Highlighting support from backup and security vendors CA, Symantec, McAfee and others, OES 2 is set to ship in 2007 and will feature en...

Novell has pulled out of the open source Hula Project, a community development effort that it kicked off early last year to compete with e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solutions such as Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Domino servers. Novell encouraged continued development of the Hula server, ...

Opera Software is singing a new tune with its updated Mini 3.0 browser, released on Wednesday. It brings photo sharing and other social networking functionality to the Norwegian company's free mobile phone mini browser. Despite its struggles in the desktop Web-browser market, Opera has succeeded wit...

The French parliament this week announced that its 1,000-plus desktops will be running Linux and open source applications beginning in June 2007, ending the governmental body's reliance on Microsoft Windows. Although the adoption of Linux and other open source software -- as well as open standards s...

Taking advantage of open source developer dissatisfaction with Novell's recent partnership and patent deal with Microsoft, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth invited Novell's OpenSuse community members to defect to the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Ubuntu was created by Shuttleworth. The Microsoft-Nov...

Microsoft and Novell, participants in a recent historic Windows-Linux technology- and patent-sharing pact, are having some differences of opinion over the existence of Microsoft technology in the Linux operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fired up Linux and open source supporters by claimin...

Red Hat-owned JBoss is releasing two technologies aimed at broadening open source application server and middleware product offerings, to serve as a more complete stack of open source software at the heart of a services oriented architecture. Red Hat touted capabilities and features in both its new ...