Mandriva has released its latest distribution for desktops and notebooks: Mandriva Linux 2009. It comes with new KDE, Gnome, Firefox and OpenOffice tools. Three editions of the new distribution are available: One, Free and Powerpack.

IBM has signed a multi-million IBM Global Business Services agreement with the Fashion Research Institute (FRI) to implement a first-of-a-kind Virtual World Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Enterprise System.

IBM announced new POWER6 processor-based servers for enterprise and SMB clients and updated virtualization and systems management software designed to help clients improve performance, drive innovation, and maximize return on their IT investments in the new enterprise data center.

Oracle has agreed to acquire Primavera Software, a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions, to accelerate its momentum in delivering mission-critical operational applications.

IBM launched a company-wide initiative that extends its traditional software delivery model toward a mix of on-premise and cloud computing applications with new software, services and technical resources for clients and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

Qualcomm announced its In-Cab Scanning service, a new addition to the OmniVision Transportation suite of services.

Red Hat announced the delivery of the industry’s first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters.

Today sees the introduction of S60 5th Edition, the latest release of the open smartphone platform, S60 on Symbian OS. The S60 5th Edition has the most advanced set of features that enable new innovations and new experiences for consumers that want to fully embrace the use of smartphone products.

Oracle announced new mobile interoperability with Nokia devices and technology, as a result of the ongoing cooperation and co-development between the two companies. Oracle Database Lite is available on Symbian Version 9/S60 Version 3 enabling enterprises to mobilize their applications using Nokia E90 Communicator.

Nokia announced Nokia Data Gathering, a new software solution to help public sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) collect data on critical issues such as disease outbreaks or disaster relief via mobile devices. The Amazonas State Health Department in Brazil will be the first to use the solution as part of its fight against dengue fever in the city of Manaus in Northern Brazil.

IBM will offer remote, $99 “test drives” of Microsoft’s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM Computing on Demand facilities.

SGI and Oracle announced a new Oracle Optimized Warehouse based on SGI servers, supercomputers and storage solutions optimized for the world’s most popular database.

Nokia will expand its device range which enables Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to all Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices. 43 Nokia devices will feature the Mail for Exchange mobile email application. Nokia also announced that Mail for Exchange will be available out-of-the-box in future releases of Nokia Eseries and Nokia Nseries devices.

Adobe announced Adobe Content Server 4, a new server software solution that copy protects downloadable eBooks for Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe’s free client software for purchasing, managing and reading eBooks.

AMD announced the availability of a new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to deliver significant efficiencies to enterprises large and small.

Sun Microsystems announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its free and open source desktop virtualization software, as well as Sun xVM VirtualBox Software Enterprise Subscription, a new offering for 24/7 premium support for enterprise users.

IBM Research announced a new project, dubbed “Sametime 3-D,” demonstrating the integration of Lotus Sametime with several virtual environments. The project showcases the business value virtual environments can bring to the future of unified communications.

Scientists at Xerox Corporation created a technology that uses 3-D software to help printers view the entire layout of a piece before it goes to print.

Microsoft and Nikon have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement to further the development of each company’s current and future product lines.

Two days after the Khronos Group announced the new OpenGL 3.0 standard, NVIDIA released beta drivers for the cross-platform, 3D graphics standard. The new drivers implement the OpenGL 3.0 API and the GLSL 1.30 shading language for both Windows XP and Windows Vista on selected GeForce and Quadro boards.

Yahoo! announced the general availability of Fire Eagle, an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared.

Samsung announced that it is introducing software designed to optimize the high performance features of its proprietary embedded flash memories: OneNAND, Flex-OneNAND and moviNAND, in smart phones, using the major mobile operating systems – Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, and RTOS (real-time operating system).

IBM released its first certified package of open-source software for supercomputers based on Linux. The IBM HPC Open Software Stack is designed to make “clusters” - servers linked together to form a single super-fast system - more productive and easier to manage.

For the first time, IBM and Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009.

Autodesk has donated the source code for CS-Map coordinate system technology to the open source community and is seeking to establish it as part of an official OSGeo Foundation project for coordinate reference systems.