Removal of the requirement for pre-call announcements on 070 numbers | Ofcom

Removal of the requirement for pre-call announcements on 070 numbers | Ofcom In a similar move to 087 numbers, Ofcom have just removed the r...

Small Business Catches the Green Bug (Business Week)

Regulation of VoIP Services: Access to the Emergency Services | Ofcom

Regulation of VoIP Services: Access to the Emergency Services | Ofcom By September 2008 anyone providing VoIP services will need to provide ...

Licence-Exemption Framework Review | Ofcom

Licence-Exemption Framework Review | Ofcom Ofcom has published a statement on the framework for managing spectrum used by licence-exempt dev...

Amendment to the PhonepayPlus Code of Practice (11th Edition) | Ofcom

Amendment to the PhonepayPlus Code of Practice (11th Edition) | Ofcom Ofcom is consulting on the amendment to the PhonepayPlus Code of Pract...

Statement on the making of regulations in connection with the award of 10 GHz, 28 GHz, 32 GHz and 40 GHz | Ofcom

Statement on the making of regulations in connection with the award of 10 GHz, 28 GHz, 32 GHz and 40 GHz | Ofcom Ofcom has made 4 statutory ...

Ofcom sets industry deadline for two hour mobile number porting | Ofcom

Ofcom sets industry deadline for two hour mobile number porting | Ofcom Ofcom has published timescales for mobile operators to implement 2 h...

All eyes on London as Ofcom plans spectrum use for the 2012 Olympics | Ofcom

All eyes on London as Ofcom plans spectrum use for the 2012 Olympics | Ofcom Ofcom are consulting on spectrum for the London 2012 Olympics. ...

UK Broadband application for licence variation | Ofcom

UK Broadband application for licence variation | Ofcom Ofcom consulted on permitting a variation in UK Broadband's 3.5GHz license. The v...

Skype make users change numbers

Introducing the 3 Skypephone It seems users in the UK with 020 7 numbers are being forced to change them by mid December 2007, that's ab...

Upgrading Digital Terrestrial Television | Ofcom

Upgrading Digital Terrestrial Television | Ofcom There are currently 6 DTT multiplexes and 3 are used for Public Service Broadcasting. Ofcom...

Emissions Growth Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns [Washington Post]

This is an associated NY times article from Dec. 4. Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world...

U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change

Review of the wholesale broadband access markets 2006/07 | Ofcom

Review of the wholesale broadband access markets 2006/07 | Ofcom The consultation relates to broadband in the UK. Ofcom has segmented the UK...

Raising Confidence in Telephone Numbers | Ofcom

Raising Confidence in Telephone Numbers | Ofcom Ofcom introduced the 03 range (which are charged at local rate) to encourage companies to mi...

Wireless Telegraphy Licence Exemption - Automotive Short Range Radar | Ofcom

Wireless Telegraphy Licence Exemption - Automotive Short Range Radar | Ofcom Ofcom are consulting on the use of automotive short range radar...

TED Talks John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech

About this Talk "I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change an...

Numbering Policy | Ofcom

Numbering Policy | Ofcom In March 2007 Ofcom mandated that all next Sexual Enterntainment Services must use numbers starting with a 098 pref...

Open Handset Alliance

Open Handset Alliance The Open Handset Alliance seems to have been launched on Nov 5th 2007 and the website is run by Google, so it looks li...

28 ways to make your fun eco-friendly (MSN Money)

Paul Watson’s wild crusade to save the oceans (New Yorker)

Paul Watson is the ocean's hero.

Mayors, Looking to Cities’ Future, Are Told It Must Be Colored Green [NY Times]

The US Conference of Mayors site is here, along with videos: http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/home.asp Bill Clinton: 'Green' Economy Off...

LinkedIn going to Facebook

It's rumoured that LinkedIn is about to be snapped up by Facebook. The business networking market has dried up as Facebook dominates the...

Pet Survival Kits to prepare for emergencies

Due to the recent minor earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, I purchased a Cat Survival Kit from this site.

iPhone unleashed

An iPhone (8GB) arrived a week or so ago from the US, it's very pretty. Unfortunately a US iPhone is the UK is as useful as a slim shiny...

N&S Admin Fees List 2007/08 | Ofcom

N&S Admin Fees List 2007/08 | Ofcom Ofcom has published a list of Telecoms companies that pay admin fees to Ofcom, they are: - Alternati...

Apple iLife/iWork '08 and Leopard

I recently upgraded my MacOS X 10.4(.11) PowerBook G4 with iLife '08 and iWork '08. Unfortunately Apple charge for these and OS upgr...

Green Blue

GreenBlue is a nonprofit institute that stimulates the creative redesign of industry by focusing the expertise of professional communities t...

Eco-tourists save forest ‘jewels’ from bulldozers [Times Online]

Video: Ted Talk Alex Steffen: Inspired ideas for a sustainable future

Video: William McDonough, 'Sustainability' Architect at a Bioneers Conference

Mobile Communications onboard Aircraft - Consultation on the introduction of mobile services on aircraft | Ofcom

Mobile Communications onboard Aircraft - Consultation on the introduction of mobile services on aircraft | Ofcom It's a bit old as the a...

Japan to Give US$10 Mln to New Fund to Save Forests [Planet Ark]

Wacom Cintiq 12WX

Wacom has launched a £700 tablet the Cintiq 12WX. It has a 12.1" display and comes with a pressure sensitive pen, it's equivalent ...

Apple to unlock iPhone

Steve Jobs has announced that the iPhone will eventually allow 3rd party apps to be installed, but not just yet. Apple are hoping to release...

Gore, U.N. panel share Nobel Peace Prize for fighting global warming

LinkedIn hits 1m UK users

LinkedIn has hit 1m UK users. This is a pretty astounding achievement for a business networking site, it also means they must be running ou...

How Baboons Think (Yes, Think) (NY Times)

Green For All: Ella Baker Center Launches a Bold National Initiative

San Jose Mayor Reed Launches San Jose's Green Vision to Improve Environment and Develop Jobs

Bootcamp to expire

Apple's Bootcamp system (which allows Windows or MacOS X to run on Apple hardware) will expire when the next version of MacOS X 10.5 (Le...

BT invests in FON

BT has invested in the Spanish company FON. BT state this is to increase wireless coverage, but it could also be a way to increase use of th...

O2 to allow "free" access to social networking sites

During October and November O2 is going to allow free mobile data access to social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, after which it wil...

3Com launches Asterisk based SMB IP PBX

3Com has launched a $1,600 30-user Asterisk appliance based IP PBX. It's essentially just a resale of the Asterisk appliance by 3Com, bu...

Talklets, making the web speak

The world of cinema changed when silent movies became talkies, now the same is (slowly) happening with the web. A UK company Textics has de...

RIPA goes live

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act has actually been live for a while, but from today all telecoms companies must store record...

Ofcom tries to ensure the future of Sitefinder

Sitefinder is Ofcom's database of mobile cell sites. The mobile network operators (MNOs) used to supply data on a voluntary basis which ...

Ofcom fines GMTV £2m

Ofcom has today fined GMTV £2,000,000 for misconduct in viewer competitions between August 2003 and February 2007. This is the largest finan...

Ofcom considers fast broadband outlook and pledges clarity for investors | Ofcom

Ofcom considers fast broadband outlook and pledges clarity for investors | Ofcom Ofcom is holding a consultation into Next Generation Access...

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry If you're a fan of Stephen Fry, here's his blog - or more the rantings of of a very educated technogeek. It's not wh...

Application of spectrum liberalisation and trading to the mobile sector | Ofcom

Application of spectrum liberalisation and trading to the mobile sector | Ofcom Ofcom, following a decision by the RSC (which sets radio spe...

Green MBAs Aim to Balance Profit, Planet

Biofuels Worsen Hungary's Drought, Expert Says

UN chief urges action on climate {BBC}

OpenEco

OpenEco is a new global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business ene...

Adaptation Planning - What U.S. States and Localities are Doing - Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Make Your Community Coyote-Friendly {API Newsletter}

SCO files for Chapter 11

After losing its long-running battle for ownership of Unix copyrights last month, SCO has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Though...

Sprint announced FemtoCell Airwave service

Sprint has announced its long awaited Airwave service using FemtoCells from Samsung (CDMA). These are used in the home and utilise broadband...

Zimbra purchased by Yahoo

Zimbra who make the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (or ZCS) have announced they've been purchased by Yahoo. ZCS is an Email/calendaring/etc ...

UK Apple iPhone deal announced

Steve Jobs was in Apple's UK Regent Street store to announce the deal with O2 for the iPhone which is going to be available on November ...

Apple special event Sept 18th

Apple are inviting journalists to a special event on September the 18th. Speculation is the announcement of the new European 3G iPhone and t...

P2P GSM

A Swedish company TerraNet has developed a peer to peer GSM technology that can be built in to a standard handset. This means that calls be...

Warming May Be Hurting Gray Whales' Recovery (Washington Post)

Alex the Parrot (NY Times)

A Low-Fat Vegan Diet Improves Glycemic Control and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Randomized Clinical Trial in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

Apple releases new iPods

As expected Apple announced updated and new iPods. The Shuffle gains new colours. The Nano's are now fully metal and support video as we...

Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change

Bob Barker says price is right to move Maggie NO COST TO ZOO: He'll pitch in $750,000, and California sanctuary will pay travel and training costs.

iPhone hacked

It looks like the iPhone can now work on non-ATandT SIMs. However it also looks like Apple/ATandT may be getting their legal guns aimed and ...

Adobe updates Flash9 player

The updated player is available from Adobe Labs . It now supports H.264 video streaming which allows for HD content to be displayed (up to 1...

Microsoft Releases HD Photo plug-in for Photoshop CS2/3

Microsoft have released a HD Photo plug-in for Adobe's Photoshop CS2 and CS3. It's available for both Windows XP/Vista and Apple Mac...

Nikon announces D3 and D300

Nikon have announced the Nikon D3 Pro camera and D300 semi-pro (or prosumer) models. The D300 is based on the D series body, while the D3 is...

Number Availability | Ofcom

Number Availability | Ofcom Ofcom are going to oen two new number ranges for Premium Rate Services (PRS): - 0902 for ’Special Services, tim...

Ethiopia: US Physician Rescues Abandoned Dogs

Barbara Boxer visits Sun Microsystems to present Conservation Champions Award

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Missing Deep Ocean Current "Supergyre" Identified: Important In Climate Regulation

Invitation From Leonardo DiCaprio about his new environmental film, "The 11th Hour"

Vegan CEO hopes to influence employees with meat-free cafeteria

Hillary Clinton picks up Newsom endorsement, scientists' admiration

Are the Bees Dying off Because They're Too Busy?

By Susan Kuchinskas, East Bay Express. Posted August 11, 2007. Are bees dying because factory farms are "overworking" them? Califo...

Watch 'The Bear' Movie from 1999

Posted by: "Michelle Tsai" michtsai@yahoo.com michtsai Wed Aug 8, 2007 2:57 pm (PST) If anyone knows a hunter or a hunting group...

World Veg Festival Weekend in San Francisco, 9/29-30

Decision to make The Wireless Telegraphy (Ultra-Wideband Equipment) (Exemption) Regulations 2007 | Ofcom

Decision to make The Wireless Telegraphy (Ultra-Wideband Equipment) (Exemption) Regulations 2007 | Ofcom Ofcom will allow the use of UWB (Ul...

NOW up for sale

NOW the UK Wireless broadband operator from PCCW is up for sale. PCCW paid $14m for regional licenses which they are trying to convert to a ...

Virgin attracts Liberty Global

Liberty Global may join the battle for Virgin Media with a bid of £11bn. BSkyB asked to delay the court case with Virgin Media re the Sky ch...

Good News!!! HOUSE APPROVES PROTECTIONS FOR HORSES AND PETS

I went to the Taking Action for Animals Conference in Washington DC last weekend and Monday. These are 2 of the 4 bills many of the attende...

Arctic Tale Movie

Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690MHz,2010-2025MHz | Ofcom

Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690MHz,2010-2025MHz | Ofcom Ofcom are looking to make a considerable ammount of spectrum available. They ...

Regulation of VoIP Services: Access to the Emergency Services | Ofcom

Regulation of VoIP Services: Access to the Emergency Services | Ofcom Ofcom is proposing that all VoIP providers will need to provide access...

Urban Action: Project Ideas for Cities

Altered Oceans - LA Times

WITNESS - Rescuing a Sea Turtle Named Ed

Picture Here: http://www.planetark.com/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/43333

Factory Farming Pollution in the US

http://www.factoryfarmmap.org/ allows users to track the proliferation of factory farms by state and county, number of farms, type of operat...

Ozone has 'strong climate effect'

China cancels environmental report

Avis Goes Green With Hybrid Rentals

Avis is greening its rental fleet, announcing today that it will add 500 Nissan Altima hybrids to the thousand Toyota (TM) Priuses it began ...

60 Seconds to Save the Earth from Al Gore

In order to ultimately force our leaders to take action to solve the climate crisis, we have to use every medium -- including television, ra...

Download Song to help homeless and abused dogs in Ethiopia

I met Dr. Anteneh Roba at the Animal Rights 2007 LA conference last weekend. He runs a Foundation to help homeless and abused dogs in Ethio...

Animal Agriculture generates more greenhouse gases than Transport

Hi Everyone, "According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization, the livestock sector generat...

Nokia N800 Internet tablet

Small and feature packed. It works with Googletalk out the box and also now supports Skype (with the latest software upgrade). It has a virt...

Google invests in Ubiquisys

Ubiquisys an Oxford based company have developed a 3G femtocell (known as Zonegate) using Picochip technology. Google have invested around $...

Facebook | Login

Facebook | Login First time I've seen Facebook errors: - "Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It ...

BT feels the need for 50Mb speed | The Register

BT feels the need for 50Mb speed | The Register BT have said they are considering putting equipment in the street cabinets, though it will b...

Disputes between T-Mobile and BT, O2 and BT, Hutchison 3G and BT and BT and each of Hutchison 3G, Orange Personal Communications Services and Vodafone relating to call termination rates | Ofcom

Disputes between T-Mobile and BT, O2 and BT, Hutchison 3G and BT and BT and each of Hutchison 3G, Orange Personal Communications Services an...

PC Pro: News: Facebook facing shutdown over 'stolen code' claim

PC Pro: News: Facebook facing shutdown over 'stolen code' claim Whether the claim is true or not, it's unlikely Facebook could b...

Arrangements for porting phone numbers when customers switch supplier | Ofcom

Arrangements for porting phone numbers when customers switch supplier | Ofcom Ofcom wants mobile operators to speed up the porting process b...

How the Humane Society Combats Animal Cruelty with Technology

Tiscali to buy Pipex

UK broadband consilidation continues with the acquisition of Pipex's fixed voice and broadband assets going to Tiscali (assuming it gain...

Emissions don't make Europe happy

A related article is here: Happiness doesn't cost the Earth http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5169448.stm

Seniors see green, rally to save environment

Virgin loses 40,000 customers, Sky gains

Sky has reported better pay tv results this quarter, 90,000 new subs instead of the 50,000 expected. VirginMedia has admitted it has lost 40...

Quicktime 7.2

It seems Apple have added 2 new features to Quicktime 7.2, export to iPhone and export to iPhone (cellular) as well as fixing various securi...

Spectrum Framework Review: the Public Sector | Ofcom

Spectrum Framework Review: the Public Sector | Ofcom Ofcom is holding a consultation to make more spectrum available, either by directly lic...

Disputes between T-Mobile and BT, O2 and BT, Hutchison 3G and BT and BT and each of Hutchison 3G, Orange Personal Communications Services and Vodafone relating to call termination rates | Ofcom

Disputes between T-Mobile and BT, O2 and BT, Hutchison 3G and BT and BT and each of Hutchison 3G, Orange Personal Communications Services an...

Facebook is growing fast

Facebook is definately the new craze and is growing like mad. Everyone seems to be joining, the same faces from other social networking site...

Nokia adds Skype to N800 Internet device

Nokia and Skype have added the Skype VoIP application to the N800 WiFi tablet. This will allow users to utilise the Skype application when c...

Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary

Stars Join Their Voices to Support Live Earth

Global Warming and Your Wallet

Apple iPhone soon to be hacked

Now that people have got their hands on an iPhone the hacking has started. Using recovery images people have already found the CPU type, bui...

Carbon With That Latte?

How Starbucks hopes to trim its emissions footprint. Starbucks wants to go on a carbon-lite diet. But oh, it's hard. In its shop in down...

Companies Giving Green an Office

The corporate roster of “chiefs” used to be pretty short: chief executive, chief financial officer and, maybe, chief operating officer. Then...

Hear how communities all over the world are working together to ensure the diversity of life on Earth.

A Green Truth: 5 Things to Buy

Millions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight

SeaSpan--Marine Conservation News from the Pew Institute for Ocean Science June - A 2007, volume 1-30

****************************************** CONTENTS: A) FEATURE 1) CITES Focuses on Sturgeon/CITES Ocean Winners and Losers B) NEWS AND VIEW...