technology

Corporate identity - new scandal over ID cards

The government could be warming up for another big scandal over ID cards, according to a new report, Corporate Identity – a critical analysis of private companies’ engagement with the identity cards scheme.

It looks at which companies are involved, their records, the government’s record in outsourcing IT projects, and what the IT industry thinks of the ID cards scheme.

The report, by Corporate Watch, can be downloaded here:
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/download.php?id=40

WiMaximum profit - the wireless revolution and big business

Rob Ray investigates how a big-business ‘wireless revolution’ is set to retard urban communications technology for generations to come.

Major companies are set to introduce a broadband technology to keep control of telecommunications across the UK despite cheaper, more robust open systems being available.
Following a recent agreement over the introduction of a new global standard, WiMax is to begin testing in the UK for a nationwide roll-out possibly as early as next year.

Aids' Origin in 1959? Science's Discrete Refutation! - Communism #10

In April 1993, we published an article entitled "Aids, pure product of Science" in French in Communisme No.38. Since then, it has been translated and published in our central reviews in Spanish and English (Communism No.8) and has been sent around the world, giving rise to much reaction, republication and reproduction.