36 MEN, TWO TEAMS, 72 HOURS AND ONE WORLD RECORD FOR GREATER MANCHESTER! Stockport Sales Manager Nick Rose is celebrating after he and his team mates smashed theGuinness World Record for the longest continuous game of 11-a-side football over the bank holiday … [Read more...]
News for: IT & Comms
POWERCHAIR FOOTBALLERS PROMOTED BY MIDSHIRES
After just four months a Powerchair Football Team will finally join the regional league, thanks to sponsorship from national business systems company Midshire. The team, made up of footballers with a range of disabilities who play using modified electric wheelchairs, has been unable to play … [Read more...]
INTERESTING ONLINE DIGITAL STATS
This week we have been searching around for some interesting statistics for digital media. Here are a few of the most noteable that we have found from Econsultancy. 1. Users of Internet Explorer are the most valuable online. From a sample of nearly 100m visitors to 90 of … [Read more...]
FOOTBALL WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT FOR STOCKPORT
Business and print systems company Midshire has announced its headline sponsorship of a Guinness Record attempt on staging the world’s longest football match - and putting Stockport on the world map. The Midshire F72 marathon match and the Guinness record attempt will take place this … [Read more...]
CDL APPOINTS COMPLIANCE MANAGER FOR NEW ROLE
Insurance software house CDL has appointed Stuart Ritchie, formerly Head of IT at Carole Nash, to the newly created post of Compliance Manager. Stuart's initial focus will be on enhancing CDL's business continuity strategy and data protection protocols, as part of a wider remit to strengthen … [Read more...]
CDL & MUSTARD TREE ‘RENEWABLE’ TECHNOLOGY
Stockport based technology firm, CDL, has donated 28 laptops and 11 PCs to ‘Mustard Tree’, an organisation based in Ancoats that exists to serve people across Greater Manchester that find themselves without home, food, dignity or hope. The computers will be used for IT classes and … [Read more...]
GMP SUPPORTS GLOBAL TWITTER DAY
Greater Manchester Police will be taking to the global stage when it joins a worldwide Twitter day for law enforcement agencies. Forces from as far afield as America, Sweden, Iceland and Australia will be taking part in the event, which starts at 8am on Friday 22 March. The … [Read more...]
AMSHIRE WARNS AGAINST RISK OF UNPROTECTED DATA
Stockport based Amshire IT Solutions is warning businesses about the risks incurred when data is left unprotected in the event of an employee leaving or being released from their position. Do you know how to protect your data when employees leave? While important information was previously … [Read more...]
TRANSPORT FOR GREATER MANCHESTER SUPPORTS APPS CONTEST
Transport for Greater Manchester is to make sets of data available to software developers and coders as part of competition aimed at finding useful mobile applications to improve the public transport experience. The Routes to the Future Innovation Challenge, part of the FutureEverything Summit of … [Read more...]
BIG WEEK FOR THE GMP iPhone APP
Greater Manchester Police's new iPhone app is off to a flying start with almost 6,000 downloads in the first week. The new app, which uses geo-location technology to allow people to become crimefighters and to get closer to their local neighbourhood policing teams, is the first of its kind for … [Read more...]
MOBILE PHONE APP IS UK FIRST FOR GREATER MANCHESTER
The people of Stockport can now help to fight crime in Greater Manchester with the UK’s first location based policing mobile phone app. Greater Manchester Police has used geo-location technology to allow people to become crimefighters and to get closer to their local neighbourhood … [Read more...]
OPPORTUNITY FOR STOCKPORT IT BUSINESSES TO WORK WITH GOVERNMENT
On behalf of the Cabinet Office, and in association with British Chambers of Commerce, Harvey Nash is inviting all technology businesses in Stockport and the Greater Manchester Chamber members to an event helping technology SMEs to do business with the Government. As part of the Government's … [Read more...]