An ethnic Ogoni group from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta accused Shell on Thursday of undermining a new government initiative to reconcile Ogoni communities with the oil multinational
I’ve been looking at the City Rail logo and have thought of some enhancements that would truly reflect the quality of service they offer their commuters.
Crude – yes.
Childish – yes.
Truthful – fuck yeah!
Taiwanese technology group BenQ has agreed to take over Siemens’ ailing mobile-phones unit, drawing a line under hundreds of millions of euros of losses for the German engineering giant
Animal Liberation Victoria‘s ten year fight to shut down the Learmonth puppy farm, the largest in Australia, has ended in victory with Ballarat Council announcing the farm will close at the end of July 2005. The misery is almost over for the dogs, but not for owner Dr Ron Wells who has been called up before the Victorian Veterinary Registration Board and asked to explain cruelty and neglect allegations
Mark Hachman, a Yank living in London, tried to get broadband connected to his apartment and fell afoul of BT bureaucracy: Someone, raised amidst the elegant lattice of custom and tradition that serves as the foundation of English society, came up with a very elegant, very British, solution to broadband policy here. And it absolutely, positively sucks
In what is probably the most moronic corporate idea I’ve heard in a long time, McDonald’s is testing the use of remote call centres to handle drive-through orders. Company officials said the idea is aimed at reducing the number of mistakes at the window. Apparently McDonald’s brain trust has never heard of Chinese whispers
A woman has sued Hewlett Packard, claiming the ink cartridges for their printers are secretly programmed to expire on a certain date, in some cases rendering them useless before they are even installed in a printer. For anyone who’s run into this problem, there is a workaround
Lexmark is dead in the water with their hopes to use the DMCA to force their customers to buy their over-priced toner. Their request for another hearing has been denied
Plans to privatise the £48 billion clean-up of UK nuclear sites could put public safety at risk. Government advisers fear that financial pressures will encourage the companies to cut corners and will increase the risk of accidents
After gobbling up OzEmail to create the third-largest ISP in Australia, iiNet managing director Michael Malone is considering further acquisitions here and in New Zealand
iiNet will take over the residential business of home grown Internet access group OzEmail after completing an AU$110 million acquisition agreement with its owner
Newcastle-based telecoms and media player SP Telemedia has announced plans for a DSL broadband network focused on regional areas in the eastern states
Employees could receive a bill each month for the cost of stolen
bandwidth and wasted time if Australia-based Exinda Networks’ URL Bandwidth monitoring system takes off
Controversial Australian political and business web site Crikey announced its AU$1 million sale to Private Media Partners
iiNet has revealed plans to launch voice over IP across its network by mid-2005 as it launched a spirited challenge to tier-one carriers with new voice and broadband bundles
Australia’s fourth largest ISP, iiNet, confirmed it was in talks to acquire rival OzEmail
Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, has confirmed that Six Apart has purchased Danga. This means that they’re moving to San Francisco, LiveJournal users are finally getting the trackback feature, but the project will stay open source, and little else will change for the end user
Sydney wireless ISP Unwired has signed an agreement with AAPT that will see the telco reselling its wireless broadband service from next year. The deal represents Unwired’s first wholesale agreement with a major carrier, although it has previously cemented relationships with a number of smaller resellers, including Exetel, Veritel and People Telecom
The tiny western African nation of São Tomé and Principe claims it has unwittingly become the continent’s electronic porn publishing capital after a Swedish company and its local partner sold the country’s internet identity without government approval. The government is demanding a share of the income earned from selling addresses using São Tomé’s .st suffix, after a US survey found they accounted for more than three-quarters of the porn pages generated from web sites that use African nations’ identities
Corporate business is discovering that e-mail within professional circles is showing that millions of highly educated people are functionally illiterate. Shame the morons are blaming e-mail rather than the political interference that has destroyed the educational system
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