Dumfries and Galloway
Latest News for Dumfries & Galloway
Crichton Carbon Centre offers local SMEs free carbon audits
The Crichton Carbon Centre has launched an EU-backed bid to offer free carbon footprinting services to small, medium and micro-enterprises in Dumfries and Galloway in what is the most comprehensive initiative of its kind to date.
Howie scan & cut timber efficiency
With the new sawmill, the company uses state-of-the-art machinery, a computer system that can accurately predict with precision how many planks will materialise from the logs and what size they will be.
Lockerbie gets internet Data Farm and village
Internet Villages International (IVI) plans to build the world's first green powered Data Farm on the outskirts of Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. On a 140 acre site, the Data Farm will consist of approximately 20 Data Centres, which accommodate computer systems or servers. Increasingly businesses and public sector organisations are moving these facilities out of their offices and into separate purpose-built Data Centres where the equipment is maintained under optimum conditions and managed by specialists. Several Fortune 500 multi-national companies have already expressed interest in the Lockerbie Data Farm.
Calvin Harris' Amiga creates 'Disco'
A battered old Amiga computer was the first technology used by Dumfries resident Calvin Harris in his debut album I Created Disco . Now his first single in both UK and US "Acceptable in the 80s" is reported as "a masterpiece of hooks and gushing synths" and a testament to talent at work.
Crighton reprieve being watched
Crichton campus in Dumfries is reprieved
Computing skills on the ball
Footballer Allan Johnston holds the 10,000th ECDL skills card
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