Want to know how the latest technology and improved communications can help your business?
Exeter-based Taurus Clearer Communication Ltd are holding an ICT day in Cullompton for local businesses to access the knowledge needed to move their company forward. Drop-in for one of the talks, have a chat with our exhibitors or join us for the full day, whichever suits you.
With industry experts Microsoft, Ericsson LG and Meru giving talks about the latest technology updates, hands-on demonstrations from Blackberry, Dell and Samsung and the Taurus team ready to answer your...
Detectives in Devon and Cornwall have commissioned innovative 3D printing technology for the first time to help secure a murder conviction.
Teenager Alex Peguero Sosa was killed while on a night out in Kingsbridge last July after Lee Dent stabbed him in the neck with a beer bottle.
Last month at Plymouth Crown Court Dent, 42, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 22 years for the murder of the 17-year-old Plymouth Argyle youth football player.
As part of the trial detectives called upon City College Plymouth to help secure Dent’s conviction by using innovative...
According to the latest UK Business Digital Index, over a million (23%) small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) still lack basic digital skills. The Index from Lloyds Bank, in association with Accenture and digital skills charity Go ON UK, measures and tracks the level of digital ability among SMEs and charities.
An overall rise in the UK Index score suggests a slow but positive shift towards small to medium sized enterprises becoming more digitally active. However there are still over a million SMEs (23%) that lack basic digital skills. This is even more significant in the charity...
“Two years ago, I found a videotape in my loft. On it: one and a half films, one quiz show and two sit-coms. Somehow, it became the story of my life” (Ross Sutherland)
After a hard-drive crash and a near death experience, Ross Sutherland found himself house-bound with only one thing for company: an old videotape that once belonged to his granddad.
Over the months that followed, Ross memorised every second of the tape. Slowly, he learnt how to manipulate the images into telling the story of his life. The videotape allowed Ross to open a dialogue with his late grandfather,...
'People would still pay attention if I wasn’t…I’m not just an extension of Will.'
Consumed by the vicious, near-constant messages being sent to her by her ex-boyfriend’s fans, the last thing Jen needs is a visit from his co-star, Eli. But with Eli insistent that she should give Will another chance, and Will and Eli’s fans convinced that she’s getting in the way of true love, Jen decides that she needs to know the reality of the two men’s feelings for each other, regardless of the consequences.
Real Person Fiction is an intense new play from Living Robot Theatre...
Tomorrow’s scientists and engineers can now apply for places at the county’s newest school, the South Devon University Technical College in Engineering, Water and the Environment, which opens its doors to the first intake of students this time next year.
The innovative UTC has been established by the University of Exeter and South Devon College alongside key local and regional employers, to provide a specialist secondary education for young people with a flair for science and engineering. It aims to help the region’s top students become as ‘work-ready’ as possible.
The South West’s leading scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians were recently brought together for the Big Bang South West 2014 Fair, held at the University of Exeter on Thursday the 26th June 2014.
Designed to provide an innovative careers event, the fair aimed to introduce young students to the wide variety of careers available across Scientific, Engineering and Mathematical disciplines. The young technologists and scientists of the future were treated to an enjoyable day featuring elements of theatre blended with immersive learning experiences.
Young people from across Exeter will be experiencing their very own Big Bang moment at the South West’s biggest-ever science, technology, engineering and maths fair next week.
Exeter University, which will host the fourth Big Bang Fair South West on June 26, will be a hive of activity as 2,500 students, teachers and guests arrive for a day of education, engagement and competition, backed by the Education Business Partnership – South West.
Nearly 150 student projects from schools across the South West will be on show to be judged by a panel of over 100 industry professionals...
The Zune was Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPod. Released in 2006 in Black, Brown or White, the Zune was intended to be a social media player, allowing users to share songs between their players. However, the Zune immediately faced comparisons to the iPod, and was the butt of many jokes for it’s brown color. In addition, on December 31, 2008, all Zune players froze and became bricked due the their software not being able to handle the Leap Year. Microsoft did produce additional generations of the Zune, but finally put it out to pasture in October 2011.
Torquay-based Dave Morris (26) has left a 10 year military career with The Royal Air Force (RAF) to launch an exciting new commercial business, ‘Nomad LED’, the UK’s first all-electric, emission free, fleet of mobile advertising vehicles sourced in Europe. And the newly launched company is already drawing attention in the region including Torbay Council and the Police for a potential local community event.
Nomad’s innovative fleet of electrically-powered vehicles equipped with state-of-the-art LED display screens, are designed to provide a cost-effective means of delivering a...
