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Ubisoft Reflections experts help develop PlayStation Vita titles

SHORTLY after their work was done on the mammoth project that was Driver: San Francisco, technical experts from games studio Ubisoft Reflections were packing their bags for Casablanca.Read

Paul Dayan

South Shields-based website Planmyfood is launched

KEEPING on top of what you're eating is hard. It's tricky enough battling the temptation to shovel cake into your face after a gruelling week of stress and labour.Read

Another cloud computing client for AtlasIM

HOSTED desktop provider Atlas Infrastructure Management has added another client after encouraging environmental consultancy ECUS to try out its pay-as-you-go cloud computing model.Read

Rentmama helps customers find best car rental

IF you're an independent car rental company, you can often find it difficult to push your way past the crowd of big firms to get to the customer.Read

Tyneside gears up for Thinking Digital 2012

SCANNING the Thinking Digital speaker line-up when it first plops into your inbox is a bit like rummaging around in someone else’s toybox.Read

Tech Notes with Ross Linnett, founder and MD of Recite Me Ltd

IN my last column for Tech Notes I discussed the potential advantages of making your website accessible to people with specialised requirements, a potentially lucrative step when dyslexic and visually impaired people alone make up more than 10% of the population.Read

Steve Grainger

Enigma Interactive take part in anti-bullying project

WEB developers on Newcastle's Quayside have become the driving force behind a major European project aimed at stamping out bullying in schools on the Continent and in the UK.Read

Durham Precision Engineering assist telescope project

THE team working on the world's largest radio telescope have called upon the skills of a County Durham firm to design and test components for the £1.26bn project.Read

Beyond Digital Solutions appoints new director

DIGITAL sign firm Beyond Digital Solutions has appointed a strategic IT director to help move the company forward with its expansion plans.Read

North East digital diaries aim to run full event listings

THERE'S a lot going on up here, from the open stages of The Sage Gateshead to the cosy corner of Pink Lane's Post Office.Read

Trevor Baylis on why UK inventors need more support

IT took Trevor Baylis nearly two years to find someone willing to take his idea for the wind-up radio seriously, but it eventually made him a household name.Read

Tech Notes with David Coxon, ICT manager at the Baltic

HAVE you ever wondered what makes a speech, presentation, blog post or newspaper article stand out? Or why you remember some presentations but not others?Read

The brave new world of technology

Britt Megahey of Newton Aycliffe based Barclay Communications, reveals his top five technology predictions for 2012 and beyond.Read

Word is out about services

Online marketing firm Fifteen Digital has landed several new clients in the hospitality sector after launching a social media training and support service.Read

Crowds on 6th Street during the 2011 South By Southwest event in Austin, Texas

North East firms head to Texas for UKTI's Trade Mission

THERE are quite a few folk from the North East off to "geek spring break" this year.Read

Centre for Life mixes science and art perfectly

HELEN Schell put down her research books one day and set off to explore the universe.Read

Undisputed Visual Effects offer motion capture service

WHAT could your club or company do with motion capture? Maybe you've got a throwing or running motion you need to fine-tune, or an injury you need to monitor. Maybe you're looking to make an animated movie, but you don’t have the money you'd need to cook up a Tin Tin or a Gollum.Read

Focus On: Durham's Spacetech event

The space industry may be heading off to places millions of miles away from the Scotch Corner services, but that doesn't mean businesses and organisations from the North East can't potentially get involved in this exciting field. John Hill learns a bit more about the opportunities ahead of next month's Spacetech event in Durham.Read

Making the most of open-source software

THE digital industry has gone through a big change in the last couple of years. Funding used to stretch high and wide which meant there was a lot of money available for software projects.Read

Tracey Crosbie from Teesside University

SEMANCO research programme set for Cruddas Park site

THE construction crews have already moved into the Cruddas Park site on the West End of Newcastle. Very shortly, university researchers will be joining them.Read