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A fantastic opportunity with a foward thinking  developer and supplier of web solutions and content management. Due to the wide array of services the business provides, AWS are well positioned to consult, implement and manage the solutions we put in place. AWS has had considerable suc...

As part of AWS’s commitment to the professional development of staff, over the past few months the development team have undertaken Microsoft training and a Microsoft exam to become Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP). Eight members of the development team have passed the Microsoft .NET Fr...

The lives of two young fishermen have been saved thanks to the RNLI's MOB Guardian man overboard and vessel locater alert system. The safety system has now saved the lives of five fishermen who work in an industry that is considered to be the most dangerous in the world. The two fishermen were winch...

As the countdown to the Beijing Olympics reaches 22 days, the BBC has today launched an interactive map showing the key venues overlaid on Virtual Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/7493757.stm The AWS team worked with the BBC and Microsoft providing consultancy advice, code samples an...

AWS entertained one of our lucky customers to a treat of a lifetime when we spent  race day with the Ferrari Formula One team at the British Grand Prix last Sunday. With access to the Ferarri garage and the pit lane throughout the day we walked the path normally reserved for team owners, driver...

Rob Blackwell has been presented with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the second year in succession - this time for his work with the Windows Live Services Platform.   According to Microsoft:   "Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical...

The lives of three fishermen have been saved thanks to the RNLI’s new and unique MOB Guardian man overboard and vessel locater alert system. The innovative and award winning system designed and developed by Active Web Solutions in partnership with the RNLI has for the first time demonstrated it...

The team at Active Web Solutions are working on many exciting projects at present, watch this space for further information. We’ve just launched a great web site for Galliford Try plc, see www.gallifordtry.co.uk We’re working with Microsoft and the BBC on a Virtual Earth mapping projec...

GallifordTry plc, the UK wide Construction and House building group chose AWS to host, manage and support their group and subsidiary company web sites. Martin Stacey, GallifordTry 's Group IT Director, is planning for the future:  "We have big plans to invest in the Internet to assist wi...

  We are delighted to announce the start of a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project involving the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems and Active Web Solutions (AWS), an ...