Interview: Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 January’s second Interview of the Month was with Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on 23 January in IRC. The EFF is coming off a series of high-profile successes in their campaigns to educate the public, press, and policy makers regarding online rights in a digital world, and defending those rights in the legislature and the courtroom. Their settlement with Sony/BMG, the amazingly confused MGM v Grokster decision byContinue reading

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Oscar Diös tells Wikinews about his hostel within a Boeing 747

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Oscar Diös is a Swedish businessman looking to invest in a new project within the aviation community. He’s already bought the venture’s first airliner, a Boeing 747-200. However, his intention is not to start an airline, and the jet is not intended for flight. Instead, he plans to convert the airliner into a unique business which he calls the ‘Jumbo Hostel’. The 450-seat widebodied jetliner will have 25 rooms sleeping aContinue reading

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New York executive files $60 million libel lawsuit over insurance scandal

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 A former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executive has hit former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with a $60 million defamation lawsuit over an online magazine article regarding an insurance bid-rigging scandal. William Gilman, a former Marsh managing director, filed a complaint last Friday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, over allegations Mr. Spitzer defamed him in a Slate article published a year ago. A copy of the complaint was madeContinue reading

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Demolition In London: Removing Unused Buildings On Residential Properties

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byAlma Abell If you look around the older neighbourhoods in London and in the surrounding areas you will often notice a variety of buildings on residential properties in various states of disrepair. These may be storage sheds or garages that have long since passed their useful stage and are now just creating a safety concern. If you have one of these buildings your best option is to hire a professional company offering demolition in LondonContinue reading

New Zealand medical student funding to be reviewed

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Monday, February 20, 2006 The New Zealand government has announced that it will be reviewing funding for medical and dentistry students at Otago and Auckland Universities to certify the institutions’ standards and help staff retention. The dean of Auckland University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Professor Iain Martin says the review “can’t come soon enough”. The Medical Students Association welcomes the review. It says that it has been worried about student debt for yearsContinue reading

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Cloud Computing Providers And Services For Their Clients

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Cloud computing providers and services for their clients by Elan Techno With the proliferation of devices via the internet, many providers came up with an idea to keep information in a centralized location? The centralization has allowed the users to optimally use the public utility of the web for access to their own resources. Certain benefits can be associated with centralized resources including cost efficiencies and an enhanced customer experience. But what does that meanContinue reading

Study: Herd animals detect Earth’s magnetic field

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Large herd animals may have the ability to detect earth’s magnetic field, concluded scientists in Germany in a report published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences after performing studies of cattle and deer grazing and sleeping patterns. The animals tended to face north-south oriented toward the earth’s magnetic poles. Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany led the team that announced the unconfirmed study. BurdaContinue reading

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70,000 General Motors employees go on strike

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Monday, September 24, 2007 73,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) union members launched a nationwide strike today against General Motors (GM), the largest auto manufacturer in the United States. UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said GM would need to meet pay, health care, and job security issues. Gettelfinge said, “This is nothing we wanted…No one benefits in a strike. But there comes a point where someone can push you off a cliff. That’s what happened here.” TheContinue reading

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UK firemen cut metal ring from man’s penis

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Saturday, December 8, 2007 Fire fighters in the United Kingdom used a hand grinder to remove a metal ring from a man’s penis 2 days ago. They had been summoned after doctors at the Royal Wigan Infirmary in Greater Manchester became worried that the man may have required amputation of the penis as the ring was cutting off the blood flow. The man had been taken to the infirmary’s Accident and Emergency department, where attemptsContinue reading

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