Firefox usage is rising all over the world. But probably the biggest rise is seen in Europe where Firefox has over 28% of the market, that is the conclusion of internet monitor XiTi.
The countries ranking the top of the list are Finland with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 [...]

According to this article on Google News the French Paramilitary Police Force (yeah that name is freaky!) is going to switch it’s 70.000 desktop computers over to Ubuntu.
Currently they are running Windows XP but they plan on changing to Ubuntu Linux every time they replace a workstation.
“We will introduce Linux every time we have to [...]

It seems like the author of the ATSC is trying to revoke the GPL license on his project.
As everyone who has knowledge of the GPL (in this case version 2) will know, this is impossible.
However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as [...]

In a press release today Trolltech, the creators of the QT GUI toolkit, announced that Nokia will be acquiring Trolltech to accelerate it’s software strategy.
From the press release: “Nokia intends to continue to enhance Trolltech products through active and ongoing development, for both desktop and mobile. To further stimulate industry innovation based on Trolltech’s products, [...]

It looks like Open Standards are here to stay. Not only has OpenID seen a huge new list of supporting companies, our all time favorite Instant Messaging protocol XMPP - aka Jabber - will be supported by AOL.
Yes, this means that in (a hopefully short) time you will be able to chat with your ICQ/AIM [...]

In his latest blog post, Jonathan Schwartz talks about the MySQL acquisition that has been flooding the bloggosphere.
For nearly five years, I’ve been getting together for dinner with Marten Mickos, MySQL’s CEO, catching up on the industry, chatting about trends and business models, and just as the dessert was about to be served… I’d say, [...]

There is more OpenID buzz on the internet than ever before! After Microsoft announced it’s Cardspace Initiative to be compliant with OpenID 2.0, now Yahoo! has sent out a press release where they announce that the Yahoo! ID will also be OpenID compliant!
The support by Yahoo! for the OpenID 2.0 specification will triple the number [...]

If you ever wondered how you can develop a plugin framework for your Java applications, then this paper by Martynas Jocius is something for you.
With one simple example that only has one class and one interface Martynas shows us how you can use plugins (or modules, what’s in a name?) with you application.

Concerned about your digital security? Aren’t we all?
Check out this list of security related applications for GNU/Linux by Fayax.info and find some nice tools you didn’t know about!

Wow looks like the use of Open Standards over at Microsoft is improving. In this press release on the RSA conference we can read that Microsoft will make it’s Cardspace initiative compatible with OpenID 2.0!
Also read the Six Apart blog post about this great news and Brad Fitzpatrick’s blog (he is the original designer of [...]