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Keep your diet healthy with new North East designed software

January 30, 2012 in News Roundup

Paul Dayan with Sunderland Software City's Bernie Callaghan

South Shields based online nutrition planner, planmyfood, is offering a free trial for anyone looking for a healthier start to the new year.

The diet-planning software analyses the nutritional content of meals to create user-friendly, daily nutrition guidance.

The software tells people if their meals are within guidelines for their medical condition or diet.

It was created by founder Paul Dayan to help a family-member battling an eating disorder.

Paul also uses the product himself after being diagnosed with raised cholesterol.

“Unlike traditional diet planners, planmyfood doesn’t just focus on slimming and weight loss”, he said.

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North East software firm sets national example on turning Autism into ability

January 19, 2012 in News Roundup

Autism Works MD Peter Macdonald (back left) with software tester Chris Neville Smith.

Staffed almost entirely by analysts who have Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, social enterprise ‘Autism Works’ is turning positive traits of the condition into unique skills.

The Newcastle-based company is the first in England to take such steps in employing people with Autism, of which 85% are currently unemployed in the UK.

Offering software and website testing services to clients across the region, Autism Works recognised that some of the characteristics of the condition can make people with Autism exceptionally talented software testers.

“People on the Autism spectrum can make brilliant employees; diligent, loyal, precise and very often highly-intelligent”, managing director Peter Macdonald said.

“What is more, their attention to detail, methodical approach to tasks and frequent enjoyment of repetitive processes can make them exceptional software testers.”

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How many software developers can you fit in an electric car?

January 5, 2012 in News Roundup

That’s the question Sunderland-based developers Guroo answered when they crammed their entire company into the same Peugeot iON.

The 8-man team provide online functional skills resources and training aimed at improving the learning of 14-19-year-olds in maths, English and ICT to more than 700 schools, colleges and training providers nationwide.

The car will help lower the costs of staff visiting local customers while also doing their bit for the environment.

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Junior software support role at Palringo

December 15, 2011 in Jobs

Salary: Commensurate with experience
Location: Cramlington

Palringo are looking for an enthusiastic individual, with a calm, patient demeanor, and excellent inter-personal skills to work on its support desk.

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Young people should learn about software, not PowerPoint

October 13, 2011 in News Roundup

Teaching IT in schools is still frustratingly as similar and uninspiring as it was decades ago, David Dunn from Sunderland Software City says.

The Chief Operating Officer of the regional software initiative was inspired to write a blog post after watching BBC’s Newsnight feature about a report on the games industry and ICT education.

After having suffered through painstakingly boring Word-sessions during his own school years, Dunn was not pleased to hear little had changed in modern IT education.

“It’s hugely disappointing to see similar frustrations being voiced by young people in the report”, he wrote.

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Locally developed customer feedback tool helps businesses boom

August 22, 2011 in Features

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A new tool developed in the North East helping businesses measure customer satisfaction is set to take on established US providers.

CustomerSure, which was founded by the former head of customer services at software giant Sage, is the UK’s first online customer satisfaction tool dedicated to the SME market.

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American firm chooses North East partner to kick off European expansion

August 17, 2011 in News Roundup

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Marc Fowler's Wolf Consultancy has been chosen as a partner by one of North America’s fastest-growing software firms.

One of North America’s fastest-growing software firms has chosen a North East company to act as their exclusive agent in the UK.

Newcastle-based Wolf Consultancy will be the UK representative for Canadian firm Namtek’s erpwizard software, a cloud-based system offering customers in the manufacturing and distribution industry greater control over stocks, sales and shipping.

The deal follows three months of support from Sunderland Software City while Namtek investigated establishing a UK presence.

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Software developer

August 5, 2011 in Jobs

Location: Boldon Colliery
Salary: £25k

This role is in the busy technology department within one of the UK’s most dynamic companies in the online marketing space. Starting in Q3 2011, the role is based in the company headquarters in the North East.

Having established itself on the international stage, following an investment from equity backers, the company is undertaking a major expansion, resulting in the technology team requiring strengthening.

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Software Specialist

July 22, 2011 in Jobs

Company: Sunderland Software City
Job type: Fixed term until 31st March 2014 (with the possibility of extension)
Closing date for applicants: 22 August 2011, noon
Interviews are likely to occur during the w/c 5 September 2011

This role is all about spending time in software companies in order to help them grow.

Appropriate candidates must have a strong understanding of how software companies operate and be able to support companies develop their products, secure public and private funding, identify customers and help them prepare tender submission.

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North East entrepreneur looking for killer ideas for office phone apps

July 7, 2011 in News Roundup

AlYongA Sunderland-based entrepreneur is in search of new ideas and collaborators to explore the huge market of internet-enabled office phones.

Al Yong, Managing Director of unified communications firm Affinity Systems, is looking to work with software developers with innovative ideas for exploiting the unused market.

“Most offices these days are equipped with internet phones which are only ever used for making calls, when they could be used as a new platform for apps”, he said.

“We’re talking about tens of millions of handsets, on every desk in every office in the land, so there’s huge market potential, and the possible applications of this technology are effectively endless.”

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