Our local air ambulance charity has always benefitted greatly from the support of many volunteers and has over 700 fantastic helpers located across the county, every one of them an integral part of the life-saving service.
Devon Air Ambulance volunteers give their time and expertise helping with many things, from looking after their 4,000 red collection boxes, speaking at public events, helping out at fundraising days and, of course, supporting the charity’s 19 shops who process hundreds of donations kindly handed in every week. Now, the charity is looking to welcome two new...
Rokk Media Ltd, the award winning Exeter and London based Digital Services, Software and Mobile App developer has successfully secured another significant contract from clients based outside the UK, and the second one from Greece.
The latest of these has come from one of the largest Value Add Telecoms companies in the world, and sees Rokk Media engaged in a project to develop and build a bespoke Campaign Management System and Mobile Wallet App for Android, in a deal that is estimated to be worth in excess of six figures and will extend across a minimum of two years leading to six...
A pioneering new technique that encourages the wonder material graphene to “talk” could revolutionise the global audio and telecommunications industries.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have devised a ground-breaking method to use graphene to generate complex and controllable sound signals. In essence, it combines speaker, amplifier and graphic equaliser into a chip the size of a thumbnail.
Traditional speakers mechanically vibrate to produce sound, with a moving coil or membrane pushing the air around it back and forth. It is a bulky technology that has hardly...
This morning all digital radio listeners in the Plymouth area were urged to retune their DAB digital radios - at a special retune event at the Lord Mayor’s Dining Room, the Council House, Plymouth - in order to expand and improve DAB digital radio coverage for over a hundred thousand listeners in the area.
Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor Dr John Mahony, pressed the big green retune switch at 8.30am, marking the moment for listeners to retune their DAB digital radios and starting the process of turning on the new digital transmitters, which will bring local BBC and commercial...
There’s no getting away from the fact that we live increasingly in what we might call a “screen culture”. The number of hours many of us spend in front of television, lap-top, tablet or mobile phone display screen is huge (even larger if one includes vehicle windscreens). In each case we absorb information, ideas, emotions, debates, data-images, even beliefs, through a filter. Modern myths – stories that give us a purpose – are held constantly before us in the form of distant soap operas, computer games and info-programmes. Our instant access to so much knowledge is mind-blowing and brings...
