UK Technology Newswire Archive
G8 Make Poverty History Wristbands made in Sweat Shops Report
30-05-2005 15:32
Media reports that many of the the Make Poverty History wristbands were made in sweatshops...High-profile climate change campaigner goes nuclear
28-05-2005 19:18
NUJ wins union recognition battle with new media giant AOL
27-05-2005 21:44
The NUJ was awarded automatic recognition at AOL (UK) part of the giant US media conglomerate AOL on Wednesday. (25/5/05).BIG NEWS ON USA MICROSOFT: Slavery to It Is Ending
27-05-2005 18:15
ID card cost soars to £93 !!!
25-05-2005 15:22
The costs of an ID card is now reckoned to be about £93each revealled in The Guardian May 25th. So, presumably those on low incomes of whatever sort will
be 'helped' to pay? I think not.
Nimby psudo civilivians ignored by ministers over wind
25-05-2005 12:49
Recently there have been well funded campaigns and a large 'protest rally' against wind power. There are domonstratable connections between proponents of nuclear and some of these anti-wind 'astro turf' groups. With money and resources from the nuke industry and the PR industry the groups attract middle englands middle class nimbies...But thankfully their attempts to put a spanner in plans to expand the number of wind farms in the UK seems to have failed...
URGENT Reintroduction of the Identity Cards
25-05-2005 00:19
To coincide with the reintroduction of the Identity Cards Bill in the House of Commons on Wednesday 25 may, Home Office Minister Any Burnham will be providing an off-camera briefing for IT media at the Home Office, 2 Marsham Street.
City Workers to get High tech ID cards.
21-05-2005 15:10
So it begins (pt 2)
Workers,including cleaners are to be issued with High tech
ID Cards...
Scottish Police Attack Sensationalist Press Over G8 Taser Gun Deployment
21-05-2005 11:16
Chief Constable David Strang, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, and Tayside Police Chief Constable John Vine, the officer in charge of policing the summit, have both denied that Taser guns will be deployed against G8 protestors and have attacked the press for being sensationalist, accusing The Scotsman of a "dangerous form of journalism".
Free Computer Monitors for a Good Cause
20-05-2005 11:12
We have a dozen working computer monitors lying around which we're going to have to scrap if we can't get rid of them.Attempts to shut down SWARM the Minutemen.com
17-05-2005 18:27
A Scottsdale-based Internet company said Monday it will force one of its Web site clients to stop encouraging harassment of the Minuteman Project or face being shut down. Swarmtheminutemen.com is encouraging people to go into the desert border areas to blast their radios or bang pots and pans together in an effort to confuse and harass Minutemen volunteers.Ethics of BioWeapons researched by Kent Prof.
13-05-2005 11:22
A lecturer from the Univ of Kent has been given a grant by the Wellcome Trust to investigate the 'ethics' of bioweapons (Porton Down)
Manchester: nuclear waste management training on 23- 27 May
11-05-2005 19:00
A five day training for nuclear waste management takes place on 23 - 27 May im Manchester. If you look at the last and all the other accidents in Sellafield you will get the impression, that all these nuclear waste managers had only trained five days for there Jobs. Let us protest against such dangerous training which occupies the future over thousands of years with dangerous radioactivty.Accident in Sellafield
09-05-2005 15:44
According to Radio Z, quoting The Guardian and The Times a part of the Sellafield nuclear plant had to be shut down after a acident.200 t of highly deadly plutonium have leaked out of a pipeline.
The level for plutonium to be deadly is said to be in the area of milligrams.
Tis news come at a time when the British government is planing to expand the nuclear programm.
Technopolis - gathering in Leeds 9 - 12th June
09-05-2005 12:23
Critical Talk on Nanotech - Oxford, this wednesday
09-05-2005 11:59
There will be a critical talk and discussion about Nanotechnology and converging technologies at OARC (east oxford community centre) this wednesday 11th May - speakers from ETC Group, Corporate Watcha nd Scientists for Global Responsibility.
British embassy bombing: cameras fail again
09-05-2005 02:52
once again, the video surveillance of public places is shown to be useless.Wireless World: Bomb detection wirelessly
08-05-2005 01:05
A story about stopping terrorists in their tracks.