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LG eyes golden age of telly with retro CRT set
Valve Doonican

It's the telly Mad Men and Avengers fans will surely be craving: a 14in telly kitted out in true 1960s style.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications


Eidos confirms Championship Manager Online shutdown
Season's end

Publisher Eidos has confirmed that it has ordered the closure of Championship Manager Online, the web-based version of the long-running popular fantasy football franchise.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing


Mandybill is mostly harmless, says MP watchdog
But wants more detail

A committee of MPs has surprisingly said that copyright infringement penalties for internet users proposed in the Digital Economy are justifiable. However, it wants the Government to explain them better, and publish more detail - particularly on the threshold for suspending the accounts of serial infringers.?

What is your recession sales strategy?


Microsoft banner ads vanish from Facebook
Search only for social network sugardaddy

Microsoft will no longer handle display ads on Facebook, as the companies rejiggered the advertising pact they announced in 2007 when Redmond stuffed $240m into the social-networking site.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work


Sony to revamp movie classics for 3D era
Citizen Kane cubed?

Sony is planning to take old movies, convert them into 3D and bung them out on Blu-ray Disc, all in a bid to boost consumer interest in 3D TV technology.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud


R.I.P. News Section

We've decided it's time to say goodbye to our news section. We've become very active bloggers since the conception of the site and the static news section just doesn't cut the mustard compared with the level of social interaction that blogging invites.

So it just remains to say, Rest In Peace News Section you will probably not be missed at all.

July 2006 | Roy Wilding
Shortlisted For "Best Commercial Website" Award

We're delighted to have been shortlisted for "Best Commercial Website" at this years Big Chip Awards for the Heaven SPA website.

We've been to the Big Chip Awards a couple of times now and always enjoyed the evening as a chance to mix with our peers and celebrate some of the great work that happens here in the North West. After enthusiastically celebrating everyone else's success last year we decided we would set ourselves the goal of getting one of our projects in the shortlist for this year.

Having succeeded we're under no great illusion that we might win given the class of opposition but it's certainly nice to think we're being considered.

The Big Chip Awards take place on Wednesday 24th May 2006 at New Century Hall, Manchester.

Well Done Us!

April 2006 | Roy Wilding
Two New Sites Launched

We've launched two new sites for Salutions a small Didsbury based publishing company.

Didsbury Magazine

The Didsbury Magazine website is a slimmed down online version of the magazine and a portal to lots of great information and services for people in the Didsbury area.

Salutions Limited

The Salutions Limited website is a supporting site for the business and includes media information and copy deadlines for the full range of magazines published by Salutions.

March 2006 | Roy Wilding
Restore Foam Website Launch

Restore Foam make Visco Elastic Memory Foam Mattresses and other related products like orthopaedic posture aids. We've built them a site to allow them to sell those products online.

Within 2 days of launching the site it was ranked number 1 in Google for a handfull of key phrases if you want to know why they read my article about building websites for SEO success.

There are 2 elements that make up the Restore Foam site, the first is a W3C standards based informative site and the second is an implementation of Actinic to handle the e-commerce backend.

March 2006 | Roy Wilding