UK Technology Newswire Archive
Farnborough Airport Consultative Committee
24-11-2003 15:37
All UK airports are required to have a consultative committee to provide a forum within which issues that affect the local community and local environment are discussed. Farnborough Airport, the business airport for Europe, held its third consultative meeting recently. The local community were less than impressed.Anti-Bush Protests in Sedgefield - reports from chasing bush site
21-11-2003 18:17
WELL DONE TO THIS WEBSITE!!
http://www.interwebnet.org
London street webcams offline (surprise surprise, again...)
20-11-2003 12:48
webcams down again today - same as yesterdays crucial times http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/camloco/040252.shtml the register reported on it - correctly mentioning how this has happened during several other large demonstrations...
Wind Farm Planned at Hinkley Pint
20-11-2003 00:09
Stop Hinkley campaigners welcome early plans for a twelve turbine wind-farm to be built alongside Hinkley Point nuclear power station. It should provede enough domestic electricity for all of West Somerset by 2005.ChasingBush: SMS Tracking Website Live + Instructions
17-11-2003 20:18
http://www.interwebnet.org/
ESF - Open Source or ownership of information
16-11-2003 15:44
Stopping the ownership of ideas, Open Source, a new mode of production, not just for computer software? Under threat? Report from a session at the ESF.Moblogging Bush - SMS Text Tracking System for State Visit >>
15-11-2003 17:06
OK, folks - here's the nuts and bolts of the Bush-stalking moblog...The nocastorgame (castor = container for nuclear transport)
14-11-2003 19:38
A game developed in the german anti-nuclear-movement.
Secret RFID testing in the US
12-11-2003 13:05
As testing of Radio Frequency ID tags continues in the UK, amid protests from privacy advocates, it now emerges that Wal-Mart (who own Asda in the UK) and Procter and Gamble secretly tagged products, meaning that customers were unknowingly carrying live, traceable RFID tags when they left Wal-Mart stores. This reinforces the need for campaigners to keep up pressure on the companies who want to introduce RFID tags without ensuring that our privacy is respected.WSIS video project
10-11-2003 12:28
WSIS? We seize is an initiative for tactical, grassroots, activist and community media actions and discussions in and around the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Dec 10-12. The High Noon project is calling for videoclips to include in their stream.Is Capital taking over Linux?
04-11-2003 22:35
The latest version of Red Hat Linux will be out this week and it will be called Fedora 1 not Red Hat 10, also SuSE Linux has just been bought by Novell and this has been bankrolled by IBM. What is happening here and what does it mean for the world's most popular versions of the free GNU/Linux computer operating system?hackmeeting held in Spain
29-10-2003 20:10
Last weekend saw the holding of the 4th hackmeeting in Spain - a meeting of community with social and technological activists."Smart" spy being tested in Marks & Spensers in London
27-10-2003 12:01
RFID makes sense for big companies. This month, Marks and Spencer has become one of the first retailers to test individual tags on men's shirts, ties and jackets in one of its London stores.But what about privicy implications? Anyone wanna find out which stores and call a demo? I'm not in London...
Lockheed Martin and the Canadian Census
26-10-2003 07:18
A call for help from U.K. activistsAction against software patents
25-10-2003 11:44
The dangers of software patents are highlighted tomorrow by the president of the free software foundation ( http://www.fsf.org) tommorrow, in London. Talk in Sheffield going as this post is typed.
A must for anyone interested in technology and want to take action. There is lot to be done.
Join the George W. Bush NOT WELCOME Pretzel Campaign
23-10-2003 20:14
New Website:Join the George W. Bush NOT WELCOME on-line Pretzel Campaign.
Join the electronic campaign to protest George W. Bush's visit to the UK in
late November. Visit the website now!
Undercurrrents video activism workshop in Manchester
18-10-2003 12:40
Unde4rcurrents video collective is holding a video activism training workshop in Manchester this week....