Scouts honor — the 98-year-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization is adopting open-source software as a path to building better software to support the almost 3 million scouts and 1.1 million adults who make up the group.

Some shadowy ring of Ip-criminals ripping off the industry for millions of dollars? No, just a poor, single mother of three, who shared a few songs on the internet. How will the soulless, greedy industry operatives benefit? More high-grade nose-candy, and new Porsches for all.

"Performance rights organization (PRO) ASCAP is now pondering ways to defuse the influence of non-traditional copyright thinkers, according to correspondence shared Thursday with Digital Music News.

RMS: « 100,000 people's movements were tracked through their cell phones for a scientific study.

This is a reminder that Big Brother can track anyone's cell phone. Do you want all your movements to be tracked?

Remember that the only way to stop most cell phones from reporting their whereabous is to take the batteries out.» -- via RMS website

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has launched a campaign to raise money from its members to hire lobbyists to protect them against the dangers of "Copyleft."

The average cell phone user probably can’t name the OS running on their phone. Millions of consumers couldn’t tell you what Symbian is, whether Windows Mobile is troubled by bloat, or even whether they’re excited about the possibilities of Android.

Two days ago, CNET came up with its list of what it considered as the best cell phones of this year. Out of the six, two of them run on Linux.

What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google Inc.'s upcoming Android mobile operating system.