Apple pulled the plug on a popular application in the App Store. Camera+ developed by tap tap tap, was given the boot because it violated developer license agreement with a new “Easter egg” feature. The company got caught red handed showing users how to activate the camera shutter using the volume button of the iPhone with a little workaround that could be activated through Safari on... [weiterlesen]

Today in Brussels: Greenpeace billboards of European Health Commissioner John Dalli and President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso, depicted as chefs cooking up 'GE recipes for disaster'. Seven weeks after the EU Commission rushed through its decision to allow the genetically engineered potato Amflora, the first crops are being planted in Germany. Under police protection, German agro-chemical company BASF has started sowing crops in a 15-hectares field in the country's north-east, German newspapers... [weiterlesen]

On April 17th, 15,000 people gathered in the center of Madrid, calling the Spanish government which currently holds the EU Presidency for a GE-free future. This event marked the end of our GE-free future bus tour in the EU. Over the last few weeks, the bus, starting from Luxembourg, has passed several EU countries, calling for a moratorium on GE cultivation, and gathering signatures online and offline, as well as organising on Facebook. So far, over half a... [weiterlesen]

Since Junichi and Toru were arrested in 2008 for exposing a scandal that rocked the Japanese whaling industry - over half a million calls for justice have been made in support of their actions. After Junichi and Toru were arrested - nearly 300,000 of you called for their immediate release and demanded that the official investigation, into the corruption they exposed, be re-opened. 85,000 of you even went so far as to... [weiterlesen]

It's been a long an intense week for the Tokyo Two in Japan. They are on trial and facing up to 10 years in jail for exposing a whaling scandal (read all about the scandal here). They are encouraged by all the supportive comments they have been getting - on facebook, twitter and our blogs. Junichi asked me to post this response from him. "I'm very happy and excited to receive all the warm messages from... [weiterlesen]