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For various reasons some very high-profile sites and services have been up and down over the last 24 hours. Find out what's going on.

Has it been a year already? It must have because Packt Publishing (news, site)  is launching its annual Open Source Awards, formerly the Open Source CMS Awards, designed to recognize and support promising open source projects . This year’s awards will be very similar to the awards in previous years, but there are a few changes.

Cloud storage is big business and Dropbox (news, site), one of the bigger names, is heading for a massive valuation if rumors are to be believed.

Last night Google (news, site) announced that it had been the victim of a phishing attack originating in China. Although software security was not breached, according to Google, human hacking allowed attackers to obtain personal e-mail accounts of hundreds of US officials, military personnel and journalists.

Both Apple (news, site) and Nokia (news, site) have reported their financial quarterly figures, can you guess which one is the happier?

With a competitive business model, a vibrant developer community and 35 active partners around the globe, OpenERP may be the most impressive open source software company you have never heard of.

The drama around Java continues. The battle for Java is becoming more dramatic than a soap opera and many major companies are involved. Oracle (news, site) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) (news,site) are in a bitter dispute over licensing issues and ASF threatens to veto Java 7 if the licensing issues are not resolved. On the positive end of things however, Apple (news, site) has announced its support for OpenJDK, thus putting an end to speculations that it might not allow Java on Mac OS X.

IPv4 addresses are almost out of stock. This isn't the first time somebody rang a bell about it, but now the situation is getting desperate. According to reputable institutions and individuals, within the first quarter of 2011, we could run completely out of IPv4 addresses.

Feeling charitable this holiday season? So are PayPal and Convio. Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the "leading civil liberties group defending
your rights in the digital world") this week and you can double — or perhaps even triple — the value of your contribution. Between now and Friday, November 12, the two companies are matching up to US$ 5,000 in donations to EFF made via PayPal. 

Here's how it works:

• Go to the EFF donation form.
• Enter the information and choose PayPal as your payment method.
• You will be redirected to a PayPal login page to complete the transaction.
• You're done! PayPal matching is automatic.

To triple your contribution, ask your human resources department if your employer matches your charitable donations, then fill out the necessary paperwork and forward it to EFF.

As an added bonus, the charity that raises the most money and the charity that receives the most donation transactions will each receive US$ 1,000 prizes. So go on, protect your rights and get some universal brownie points.

Cyber warfare might just be the next frontier in the quest for global dominance. With Asia-Pacific nations like China, India, South Korea and Japan gaining footholds in terms of technological advancement, it is only natural that the reigning super powers would want to keep a few steps ahead and maintain the status quo. However, this doesn’t come without costs. What if national security came at the cost of international trade and economic cooperation?

In the wake of global economic recovery, businesses worldwide are gearing towards increased investment in IT for 2011. The Asia Pacific region is seen as more aggressive in terms of upgrading enterprise systems. The question here lies with the kinds of IT activities that organizations are expected to undertake.

While Microsoft's (news, site) other divisions harvest in the cash, Online Services proves to be the company's weak spot, leaking another half-a-billion dollars.

In the lofty environs of the executive suite at HP (news, site) a new name is being engraved on the top door!

Welcome to the October installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Don't forget that the Packt Publishing (news, site) 2010 Open Source Awards are open for voting as well!

Some seem to hope that it's an early April Fool's Joke, but the truth came out on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today: AOL is acquiring TechCrunch.

Information access, if it isn't already a big issue for your business, is going to be massive as we approach data meltdown in the coming years, IDC names those who could save us.

As children we were taught to share with others. Though sharing may have gone out of vogue for a while, the collaborative nature of web 2.0 brought it back. However, some people never learned to share and when push came to shove, embracing emerging technologies didn’t go as smoothly as they hoped.

KMWorld (news, site) has released its list of trend setters for 2010, so what's making the pace in the new decade?

Wonder how your company would hold up against a team of hackers? At this year’s DEF CON Hacking Conference, held last month, there were some interesting surprises.