Australian software company Once Technologies has released what it claims is the first browser-based Web 2.0 development platform as an open source project.

4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System (OSS) v4.0. The software currently runs on Linux, SolarisTM, SCO UnixWareTM and FreeBSD platforms.

Intel has announced the launch of Moblin, an umbrella open source project for a Linux-based operating system and applications for Intel Ultra Mobile Platform which includes mobile Internet devices and ultraportable PCs.

A software development firm in Montpellier, France recently released a new open-source browser intended for use in consumer device applications. Pleyo's "Origyn Web Browser" (OWB) is based on the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, and targets mobile phones, PMPs, PVRs, GPS gadgets, and more.

A couple of weeks back, a small New Zealand-based company, OnlineGroups.Net, released the source code for its online collaboration platform, GroupServer. When a big company releases source code for anything, it's often termed a risky move. For a small company, the risks are more or less the same.

Intel's open source Moblin platform is beginning to ship on consumer electronics products. The Linux-based platform is designed specifically for mobile Internet devices that use Intel's Atom processor. The project launched last year and has evolved swiftly.

"The 64 Studio Platform Development Kit (PDK) is a Free Software tool that we use to automate the production and maintenance of several different projects. PDK is a kind of version control system for distributions, allowing us to create and manage many different custom products based on Debian and Ubuntu sources..."

The open-source development model can can be powerful and incredibly beneficial for any software development project. Yet, even most open-source projects do not follow this style of development. Today, I want to talk a bit about why this is the case, and what can be done to set your project on the right path to enjoy the advantages of the open-source development process.

The Bandit® Project today hit another key milestone in the development of open source identity services with the availability of an open source, cross-platform information card selector that helps users manage “digital identity cards” used in Web transactions.