Just when the first Android powered phones become available in the US, google has published the source code of Android to source.android.com/. The code is managed with git, the source code control software originally designed by Linus Torvalds to managed the Linux source code, and is made available under the Apache license

Google recently released several open source projects:

• RatProxy: a passive web application security assessment tool
• Protocol Buffers: a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format and the format used for almost all of Google's internal RPC protocols and file formats.
• GoogleTest: a framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian).

Interesting for developers to check out!

Google has contracted Codeweavers to make Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 run better on GNU/Linux systems.

Google is already using Wine for Picasa on Linux, and contributed several patches to the project.

As seen on The 451 Group

Google Web Toolkit 1.4 has been released. GWT is a tool to develop AJAX applications in Java. You don't write any Javascript: it gets generated from your Java code thanks to a Java to Javascript compiler. When in "hosted mode" your app runs on the Java Virtual Machine, which gives you access too all available Java debugging tools and techniques. This release is a major upgrade, and features improved performance.