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The Google phone is coming soon. There are rumors that Google is getting into the phone-building business.

Netherlands' open source policy goes double Dutch. A report from an open source conference in Amsterdam.

Has Windows Mobile lost 28 percent market share in a year? That's what Gartner researchers report.

KDE 4.4 due out in February of 2010. Here is what to expect.

Q&A: Visa dips a toe into the Hadoop pool. The company's head of technology strategy weighs in on how it is using Hadoop's powerful data crunching capabilities.

London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words. Its Microsoft-based tech infrastructure is being replaced by open source tools.

How GNOME and KDE spend their money. Here's a comparison of their quarterly reports.

Does Oracle matter to open source? Once it acquires Sun, Oracle will be the largest sponsor of open source projects that people use every day.

BonitaSoft gets funding. The provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) software announced a first round of funding of $3 million from Ventech and Auriga Partners.

?T-Mobile's next-generation Android phone, myTouch, coming up July 8th. The 3G phone is a big step for Android.

Why Ubuntu has become the flag bearer for Linux. It's not just because of Canonical's investment.

PostgreSQL version 8.4 is now out and available for download. Improvements to the open source database focus on administration and monitoring.

10 awesome features of Krunner in KDE 4. Here's a screenshot-driven tour.

Amarok music player 2.1: One step forward, two steps back. There are several improvements, but also several issues.

With clouds, license arguments become fog. Does it matter if you are using a license out there??

PHP 5.3.0 released. New features include namespaces, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions, and there are many bug fixes.

Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud--Q&A. Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of Corporate Development, on the company's cloud strategy.

KDE's Aaron Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3. Here's a screencast on the upcoming release.

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat? Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says C# and Mono are a Microsoft conspiracy.

Building a Linux App Store: Can You Help? Isn't there room for one?

Fedora 11 is now available. It features ext4, the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases, and Microsoft Exchange compatibility.

Mozilla to deliver a preview of Firefox 3.5 today. It will arrive in advance of the official Release Candidate 1.

Novell is considering an open source app store. It's a new way of marketing open source, officials say.

KDE On Windows continues. There are rumors that KDE isn't moving forward on the Windows platform--not true.

Seen: Linux notebooks with ARM CPUs. Freescale and Qualcomm have coined the term smartbook for them.

Kludgets lets you run OS X widgets on your Windows desktop. It's an open source project built on Webkit and Nokia's QT framework.

OpenOffice 3.1: The new features. Instant eye catchers are improved anti-aliasing for graphics, better chart functionality, and the new text highlighting in Writer.

12 of the best free Linux news aggregators. Tools for KDE, GNOME and more.

Education lessons for open source. If the school is running open source, that's what the students will learn.

Auto-update to the latest builds of Firefox Minefield. Daily builds have the latest bug-fixes, enhancements and test options for this speedy version of the browser.

Richard Stallman explains why software patents are wrong. Check out the video.

Highlights from Google's Summer of Code. Over 1,000 students were accepted into the fifth year of the program from 70 countries and will work on about 150 open source projects with mentor organisations.

Aaron Seigo talks about KDE's past and future. He heads the German non-profit that handles the project's financial and legal affairs.

Hackfests, fundraising and the economy. Stormy Peters, who directs the GNOME foundation, weighs in on what can be done to preserve hackfests in a poor funding environment.

Making the switch to OpenOffice. Here's how easy it is to break free of Microsoft Office and take advantage of top open source productivity apps.