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Motorola today announced the new Motorola A780 -- a truly converged device offering the speed of EDGE technology coupled with the open, flexible environment of Java(tm) + Linux to deliver the ultimate handset for both work and play.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in PHP, Samba, mod_ssl, HP-UX's xfs and stmkfont, Ethereal, l2tpd, Domino, APC PowerChute Business Edition, Webmin, and Lexmark network printers.

Most of the 1,500 OSCON 2004 attendees in Portland managed to shake off the city's abnormally hot weekend and the Portland Brewer's Festival to show up for informative training and discussion sessions on an array of open source languages and software as the event kicked off Monday.

Making the switch from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice can save you a lot of money on licensing fees, and it isn't difficult--most people get used to the changes quickly. But if you've been using MS Office for the best part of a decade and learned a few of its tricks along the way, you may find yourself baffled about how to do certain tasks in OpenOffice. Here are a few tips on using Writer, Calc and Impress.

Zend Technologies, which released PHP 5 last week, announced on Monday that it has launched the Zend PHP certification program, to be offered through the mobile testing facility it is hosting at The O'Reilly Open Source Convention on July 26-30 in Portland, Oregon.

Two and a half years after its chief executive donned the suit of Linux's penguin mascot on an exhibition stage, Sun seems to have fallen out of love with the open-source operating system. Last week the firm detailed plans to focus attention largely on its own Solaris operating system for server lines, on a range of hardware platforms including Sparc, AMD Opteron, x86 and, potentially, Itanium and Power chips.

Oracle is fully committed to supporting the Linux operating system. In fact, Oracle was the first commercial database available on Linux.

Telstra has shaken Microsoft and won a keener commercial relationship with the software giant by talking up its enthusiasm for open-source software. Telstra technology, innovation and products group managing director Ted Pretty last week said the Linux threat had benefited the telco.

The menace of spam has pushed Lloyds Steel Industries to upgrade its mail server, for which the company has initiated a complete evaluation of both Microsoft and Linux based mailing solutions.

This series explores the sort of technologies we could use if we were to build a new platform today. The first 2 parts covered the Hardware and core OS. In this third part we look at security, the file system, file management and throw in a couple of other random ideas for good measure.

"Content Management System" (CMS) is an expression that is widely used in relation to Web site development and maintenance today. Maybe even more than widely: the search for "Content Management System" returned 2,190,000 results pages from Google. What's so special about it? Is a CMS a must for any individual or company that owns a Web site? Can you do without it? If you know the answers to these questions, you don't have to read any further - this article is for those who want to find out what a CMS is and whether they need it at all.

Open Country, a Linux desktop and server software management vendor, launched as a company last week with the aim of helping enterprises lower Linux network administration costs on the cheap.

Mark Barrenechea, the ex-Oracle exec behind this move, agreed to reply to my questions. And since then, he's been promoted to replace Tony Gaughan as senior vice president of development at the company. So here's your chance to get a glimpse inside the mind of who seems to be CA's "Open Source crusader". We thank Mr. Barrenechea for the chance of this exclusive interview with The INQ.

Although many open source enthusiasts have an almost reverent attitude towards technology, data center managers have specific business problems to solve, and judge technology only on how well it solves those problems. Let’s examine the requirements that are specific to data centers and see if open source technologies can meet them.

Last week, Grashopper released their newest version of Pagestream desktop publishing software for Linux. PageStream5.0, available in standard and professional versions, runs on x86 Linux installations with Gnome+2.0/GTK+2.0 packages or newer and at least 30MB of hard drive space.