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We scoop Internet for All Award

02/07/2009
Thunder, our free talking software package, has won a prestigious award in the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2009.

Thunder News February 2009

20/02/2009
Up to date news from Thunder February 2009

Praise for Screenreader in Government White Paper

01/09/2008
Our Thunder download has been highlighted as an "invaluable" example of accessibility for disabled people, in a new Government White Paper.

E-democracy award for Thunder

06/03/2008
Thunder, our innovative, free talking software package, continues to make waves and win plaudits. And on February 28, we were thrilled to collect a Special Ministerial Award at the International eParticipation and Local Democracy Symposium in London.

March Newsletter

19/03/2007
I have been over to Austria for three delightful days. We now have six European partners who are helping us put Thunder into other languages, French, German, Estonian, Slovakian and Italian.

February Newsletter

09/02/2007
Thunder Latest Version, About WebbIE, Feedback from you, Offering Your Services, Financial, The Hard Sell, Better voices, Scanning Software, Memory Stick Technology, Magnification software, For Braillists, Some good news.

New version of Thunder available

09/01/2007
Latest version of the Thunder screenreader software available to download now....

November 2006

30/11/2006
New version of Thunder on the website, improvements to website text browser, product focus - High quality British voice called Daniel, support and training, Peterborough UK leads the way, workability with Leonard Cheshire, a new director with Screenreader.net CIC

Free software for Blind people in Europe

Our Big Idea - The Times May 2008

May 2008 feature in The Times

Children in Need grant - Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Feature about our 60,000 Children in Need grant to help roll out Thunder to blind children around the world.

Children in Need grant - Comment in Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Comment about our Children in Need grant, from the leader column in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph - September 5 2008

E-democracy award - Peterborough Evening Telegraph April 2008

An e-democracy award for Thunder

Social Enterprise feature - In Touch Autumn 2006

Feature on Screenreader in Social Enterprise East of England's magazine In Touch.

Thunder launch, Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Story from our local evening newspaper on the launch of Thunder