A proposal known as Project Panama is gaining a lot of support on the Internet by way of an open-source Java mailing list. The effort would provide Java programmers the ability to access non-Java application programming interfaces, including other popular interfaces used by C/C++ programmers.

In this roundup of interesting software news, you'll read up on a new report from the Linux Foundation that says collaborative development between companies is on the rise and how the US Federal Aviation Administration is ordering a fix for a software glitch affecting some Boeing planes.

The Internet has come a long way in twenty-five years—from something that most people didn't know much about to something more than half of adults surveyed by Pew Research Center said would now be nearly impossible to give up. Read on for what the Internet might mean to society in ten more years.