As victorious Turkish Workers Action Group negotiates a return to work on GAMA sites having won almost all of their demands re conditions and wages, the Irish Government excel in foreign affairs diplomacy with their true feelings regarding migrant workers in our country — Junior Minister (for Overseas Development) Conor Lenihan has been forced to…

A recent study from Sweeden shows link between brain tumours and rural phone use where output power of phone and base station are highest.—A difference in the power output level from mobile phones between urban and rural areas has recently been shown. This is caused by adaptive power control (APC) in the cellular telephone and…

Internet-casting also upends the significance of the archive. For conventional companies, archives are an expensive problem: they need curating, maintenance, storage space, and no-one can ever judge what will be significant in the future. They are expensive luxuries.In the internet distribution model, archives become ever more accessible, and valuable.(BBC NEWS | Business | Peter Day)…

(10/05/2005 Paris, France) The members of the Digital Radio Mondiale TM consortium today voted to begin the process of extending the DRM TM on-air system into the broadcasting bands up to 120 MHz. This landmark decision will enhance the range of non-proprietary, digital radio solutions offered worldwide by the DRM consortium and the World DAB…

Northern Ireland’s 582 council seats are to be decidedThe first results in the Northern Ireland council elections are now in.Counting to determine who will claim the 582 council seats got under way at 0900 BST.A total of 918 candidates are contesting the seats across the province’s 26 council areas.—did I read that right? you have…

I did a quick lookup on the cost of mobile data from the 3 current carriers in Ireland and the table below lays out the range of costs I found for downloading a 33MB file. I was prompted to look at this as USA podcatchers are listening to podcasts on GSM via ‘all you can…

GAMA managers have taken 230 striking workers off their payroll and are trying to starve them into submission. The workers, who held a protest march yesterday afternoon to the Turkish firm?s headquarters in Santry, Dublin, said they have not received food yesterday and were also being threatened with eviction from their accommodation. Socialist Party leader…

Newstalk’s claim that the piece was an “evolving element” in the show is comic in itself. Do BCC decisions give leave to on air apologies? NT106 did get the Cardinal Ratzinger piece correct in historical(?) terms. I have not heard this piece of raido sketch, I wonder what Mitchell McLoughlin and Jeffrey Donaldson said on…