Novell today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PlateSpin Ltd. The purchasing price is said to be US$ 205 m.

Google uses Wine to provide Linux support for Picasa; now the search engine giant has commissioned the specialists from Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 .

The Mozilla Foundation today launched a new company, Mozilla Messaging Inc., which will be focusing on Internet based communications.

Novell today announced it has acquired SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration, in a move that will create interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces for team productivity.SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell.

The Mozilla Foundation has removed at least ten vulnerabilities from its browser, three of which were classified as critical by the developers.

The Finnish cellphone manufacturer Nokia is looking to acquire the Norwegian software enterprise Trolltech for around 104 million euros.

As part of the KDE 4.0 release event, Trolltech CEO, Haavard Nord, announced that the Qt library would be released under GPLv3. Qt is an important framework for the KDE Linux desktop system.

Indian software developer Synovel released the latest 0.4 version of its groupware client, Spicebird, just a few days ago.