AP – Hugo Chavez is starting to use Twitter to counter his opponents online, forcing a president who often talks for hours to sum up each thought in 140 characters or less. Source:Venezuela's loquacious leader tries terse Twitter (AP)

PC World – SAP said Wednesday that its first-quarter software and software-related service revenue rose 12 percent over the previous year, to €1.95 billion (US$2.62 billion). Source:SAP Returns to Growth and Profits in the First Quarter (PC World)

Extract not available. Source:Apple may debut new iPhone at June conference

Extract not available. Source:News Corp invests in new digital music start-up

Extract not available. Source:iPhone 4G to be officially revealed on June 7th?

Ben Patterson – So, what do Nokia and RIM have in common? The two smartphone titans are both saddled with operating systems that look painfully behind the times compared with competitors such as the iPhone and the new Android-powered HTC Incredible, and both are looking to turn their respective tides this year: RIM with its [...]

AP – Shaw Communications, which provides cable, high-speed Internet and phone services in Canada, said Monday that it plans to roll out a next-generation wireless service. Source:Shaw Communications to build new wireless service (AP)

iPhone game developers Majic Jungle Software have posted a proof of concept video to YouTube showing their upcoming title Chopper 2 being run on and output from an iPad to an Source:News: Game devs show iPad-to-TV with iPhone control concept

Anabel Mobile, Nigeria’s first manufacturer of smart mobile devices has won the Communications Week excellence award for “Smart Phone of the Year” for 2009. The beacon of ICT awards was instituted to reward the vision and enterprise of individuals Source:Anabel Mobile wins smart phone of the year award

OpenX Single Page Call allows you to easily implement your OpenX tags into your Joomla site via a Single Page Call. Instead of making several calls to the ad server for pages with multiple ads, a single call loads the page much faster, without the delays associated with rendering each zone individually. You will need [...]

In an Internet landscape full of “what I ate for breakfast” posts, here’s my semi-regular dose of transparency and accountability to the Joomla community as to my activities as Open Source Matters (OSM) President. (English | Español) Week in Review completed my first draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents for OSM Board positions [...]

  The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.17 [Wojmamni ama woobusani]. This is a priority release to correct two issues in version 1.5.16. Although there are no security issues fixed in this release, we consider it a security release because a security-related bug has been fixed and because many sites may be [...]

As many of you know OSM publishes its 990 income tax filings on the OSM website for community access. It was only in 2008 that the information required in the 990 became detailed revealing much more about a non-profit organization’s (NPO) financial operations. You Now See the Same Reports as the Joomla Leadership In order [...]

AFP – Serbia plans to seek data from Facebook about a group on its Internet social network that has reportedly been sending death threats to Serbian President Boris Tadic, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday. Source:Serbia to ask Facebook about group threats on president: minister (AFP)

Reuters – The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether a California law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to minors violated constitutional free-speech rights, the first time it will rule on a video game case. Source:Top court to rule on California video game law (Reuters)

AP – McKinstry Co., a privately held construction and design company, said Tuesday it has acquired the rights to a group of software products from Itron Inc. Source:McKinstry buys software assets from Itron (AP)

IF YOU think that Nokia 97 is the last phone with all the amazing features then you are wrong as Nokia has finally launched a next generation Symbian smartphone, The N8. The specification of the phone is totally outstanding as it is like a computer in Source:Nokia announces Symbian N8 – Specifications, features, price details

Spotify’s largest update adds Facebook integration and adds a library feature to let users listen to their own music alongside streaming songs. Source:Spotify takes aim at iTunes with social, library features