New & Noteworthy: ViaVoice; Office 0.9; HancomOffice; Internet Gateway; Mathematica

IBM ViaVoice X  3.0is out. It is a Mac OS X version of this speech recognition software.

OpenOSX Office 0.9 is an Office suite alternative. It includes AbiWord (word processor), Gnumeric (spreadsheet) and Gimp (graphics editor).

HancomOffice 2.0 is a multiplatform Office suite that will run in Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is now in a "final beta" version. (Thanks. Christopher Smith.)

Mac OS X Internet Gateway Public Beta Vicomsoft has announced the first public beta of Internet Gateway for Mac OS X. This release incorporates all of the features of our current Internet Gateway, while taking full advantage of the high performance and improved user interface available to native applications under Mac OS X. It includes: Robust firewall; Automatic connection to the Internet as needed; more.

Mathematica coming Doug Hiser writes: "I heard from Wolfram Research that the final version of Mathematica for Mac OS X will be out at the end of this month. This resolves some known incompatibilities of the preview release with Mac OS X 10.1."