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There's a lot of buzz right now about Ubiquity: Mozilla's attempt to explore command-based interaction within Firefox. Users of other command-oriented interfaces like QuickSilver or Enso, will feel right at home with Ubiquity: you activate it within your browser with a simple key combination, and then start typing. Depending on what you type, stuff happens.

Perspectives, a Firefox extension from Carnegie Mellon, offers robust privacy features.....

Are there too many cooks in the kitchen, working on too many open source projects? Would consolidation help?.....

Open source gaming goes commercial with Wiz handheld.....

Postpath is an open source e-mail and collaboration server offering interoperability with Microsoft Exchange.....

Take a gander at Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.....

One of the keys to the success of Firefox, the popular open-source browser produced by the Mozilla Foundation, is its extensibility. Earlier this summer, the Mozilla Foundation sponsored a contest, dubbed Extend Firefox 3, that offered prizes to the best add-ons that developers would submit. Last week, contest judges announced the winners.

If you've been on the fence about upgrading to Firefox 3.0, Mozilla is planning to give you a little nudge. Sometime within the next week, people using Firefox 2.0.0.16 will see a request to upgrade and though you'll have the option to decline, it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway.

Open source technology is helping young IT workers get a foot in the door.....

Hadoop: When grownups do open source.....

Why Ubuntu just might succeed.....

Open Health Tools gets its first big donation.....

Mozilla's Firefox wins the Who's the next open source idol crown at LinuxWorld.....

Mozilla is out with the first Alpha of version 3.1 of Firefox, code-named Shiretoko. We covered what's under the hood here.....

ZDNet on whether India and China are taking over open source.....

Open source is increasingly contributing to cloud computing, SaaS.....

If you're a Web developer, it's a pretty good bet that one of your most important tools is Firebug, an open-source debugger for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax that works inside of the open-source Firefox Web browser. Since it was first unveiled several years ago, Firebug has taken the Web-development world by storm, revolutionizing developers' ability to modify, test, and debug Web applications. In the last month, Firebug has received hosting and development assistance from Mozilla, a change that will almost certainly benefit both the software and the community.