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You can see Asterisk doing to the proprietary PBX market what Linux has done – and continues to do – to proprietary operating systems in corporate and Web server markets.

Presence Technology, a provider of computer telephony integration or CTI software solutions, will take part in the AstriCon, the open source technology conference and exhibition to be held from Oct. 13 – 15 in Glendale, Arizona.

According to Alistair Cunningham, managing director of Integrics Ltd, Asterisk already has widespread acceptance among the technical community, its growth driven by its power and flexibility as a telephony development platform, as well as its open source nature.

MIPS Technologies, a Sunnyvale, California-based provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, reportedly has joined Google Inc.'s Open Handset Alliance. As a result, the power of Android Open Source mobile platform will be made available to the vast MIPS development community across the world.

The modular VersIC architecture allows the addition of tools for managing the design data various ways and creates a collaborative work environment for communication between multiple sites and design teams for changes needed in designs.

Apstel's 'Visual Dialplan Code Zone' is a Web site for developers to find solutions, share ideas and solve problems. It will be providing developers with code snippets, dial plan examples as well as a wiki containing tutorials - for developers creating applications based on Asterisk platform. In addition, it includes a forum for ongoing discussion and tools, in order to simplify development and testing.

In the world of personal computers, thin is in. Dell this week launched its latest, ultra-thin personal computer for businesses. The Latitude Z laptop, which features a 16-inch screen and weighs 4.5 pounds, is less than 1 inch thick. It's the ultimate in high-end laptops for users that don't want to lug around a heavy PC. But there's a slight catch. The Latitude Z, shown below, starts at $1,999.

Coverity, a software integrity provider, has released the 2009 Coverity Scan Open Source report. The report is based on a public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity. It was initiated by U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The 2009 Coverity Scan Open Source Report analyzed nearly 11 billion lines of open source code from 280 open source projects over the last three years.