Worker is a file manager much like the Amiga's DirOpus. It can be controlled with mouse or keyboard. There is no restriction on the number or type of button functions. Files are recognized by both extension and content, content by recognizing common bytes in the sample files you show it. Drag & Drop is supported.

ARCHOS, the French multimedia tablet manufacturer, has announced two new touch-screen tablets that run Google's open source Android operating system

The good news is that people are increasingly aware and interested in Linux. The bad news is that there are still a number of big obstacles preventing people from being able to switch to the OS.

Sprint and Verizon Wireless have released Palm's upgraded 1.4 version of the Linux-based WebOS for Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones. Ofering much-anticipated video capture and editing functionality plus improved messaging features, WebOS 1.4 arrives shortly after Palm announced lowered investment guidance due to disappointing smartphone sales.

Google Buzz has been getting a lot of attention today, and the buzz (awww!) has drowned out a much more interesting piece of social technology that was announced at FOSDEM 10.

Twitter, the world's most famous Microblogging service picked Cassandra as alternative to their MySql database system.
Cassandra is a no-sql open source distributed database management system. One of the top-level Apache Software Foundation projects, written in Java and first developed by Facebook to develop their Inbox Search features.

When a movie is as successful as James Cameron’s movie Avatar has been, Hollywood takes notice. We can assume that other studios and directors have taken copious notes on how to clone this generation’s answer to Star Wars (or at least we can be sure the movie studios will try).