We’re keeping green as we stamp out our carbon footprint.

Dedicated web hosters Rackspace have issued us with an Ecertificate from International Tree Foundation (ITF) to confirm trees have been planted at Strouts Field, Chesham Bucks this winter to cancel out the carbon emissions created by the server.

So we’re definitely on track to helping keep the environment clean.

ITF is a UK-based tree charity, which plants, protects and promotes trees in the UK and overseas.

For more information, visit www.internationaltreefoundation.org

Here at Dpivision.com we’ve dug deep and donated to a worthwhile cause.

London tech geeks – and geekettes – have been stripping off to produce a calendar for charity, and CannyBill has sponsored the month of June www.nudetechcalendar.ning.com.

All of the proceeds will go to Take Heart India www.takeheartindia.org, a youth-run charity focused on IT education projects in India for blind and disabled students.

The charity doesn’t employ anyone, so 100 per cent of proceeds are spent on education projects.

Take Heart is guided by the principle that “work builds, charity destroys”, rather than giving money to people, Take Heart empowers through practical education and skills training.

So for those of you who haven’t already bought yourselves a 2010 calendar, then do your bit for charity and buy one from:

http://www.firebox.com/product/2583/Nude-Tech-Calendar-2010

It’s that time of year again where we shut down the office so we can welcome Santa, open our prezzies and pile on several pounds.

With that in mind and the festive season – complete with a heavy sprinkling of snow – in full swing, we want to wish all of our customers and everyone we have worked with this year a very merry Christmas.

We will be closed for our festive break on the 25th, 26th and 1st of January but available by email and phone for the rest of the time.

Swashbuckling is an activity normally carried out on the high seas.

But piracy is as rife as ever online.

Notice anything familiar about these screenshots?

You’d be forgiven for thinking someone had got their hands on our carefully crafted creations but unfortunately, that’s not the case.

After a quick trawl of the Internet, our research revealed there are plenty of websites out there imitating both our www.dpivision.com and www.cannybill.com.

It’s just a good job we’re all flattered by it here!

dpivision.com Ltd – Original

Pirate Site 1

Now this person really hasn’t bothered to change very much at all!

Pirate Site 2

And again, another company taking our design and just adding their logo but worst of all, doing a terrible job of it!

CannyBill – Original Site

Pirate Site 1

Well again not much effort has been put in to change our original design. They’ve changed the logo and some text but that’s about it!

Pirate Site 2

Well this is not a pirate site as such, just someone taking our CannyBill and Tradingeye sites and featuring them in their own portfolio!

We have backed a fearsome fight against cancer.

Dpivision.com Ltd has sponsored Kate Davies to complete a gruelling four hour kick-boxing challenge

Brave Kate is taking part in the Phoenix Martial Arts Sponsored Fight where, over four hours, she will be non-stop fighting, changing opponents every minute.

All of the cash raised will go to Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign, with the last challenge raising a staggering £40,000 for the charity. Good luck Kate!

http://www.justgiving.com/pma-kdavies/?from=UKSponsorExit

Looking after our customers has always been a top priority for us and to say a big thank you for all our hard work, Steve, of Singleframe Media, sent us a treat to help us pile on the pounds.

He sent a whole box of Cadbury Cream Eggs to head office, which were all troughed within seconds by the hungry hordes at Dpi towers.

We were all over the moon when the box, complete with the note:

“Just a little thank you to all the guys for the hard work and the support over the past year! Kind Regards Steve Fairhurst Singleframe Media”,

Thanks Steve – not only did you help us fill our faces, the lads were so stuffed they couldn’t leave their desks to take their lunch break

Dpivision.com Ltd has given a helping hand to raise cash for a life-saving cause.

This week, more than 100 cities across the globe played host to Twestivals, which bring together Twitter communities for a fun-filled evening that raises funds for charity.

As we were keen to help others and get involved, we decided to sponsor the event and give the Tyne Twestival a free Tradingeye licence to be given away as a prize.

The event took place on Tuesday in Newcastle and helped to raise stacks of cash for charity: water – a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.

Caked in dirt and wearing nothing but tattered rags, hundreds of kids scrabble through the stench of over-flowing rubbish dumps in search of food.

These are the forgotten children of Kenya.

Abandoned by their country and their Government, these youngsters are forced to fend for themselves.

They have nowhere else to go and no-one to turn to after having their lives torn apart by the massacre that has swept across their troubled homeland.

Their parents have been brutally murdered and their homes looted, forcing them onto the streets of Eldoret, Kenya where they face a daily struggle for survival.

With no money, no food and no hope, these kids are forced into a life of crime, scavenging and have nothing but their bottles of glue to keep them going.

Those of you who saw this week’s special of the BAFTA-winning series, Ross Kemp on Gangs will have been touched by the plight of the ever-growing number of street kids, with some only months old cradling bottles of glue in their arms.

After watching it, Dpivision.com felt compelled to do something so we gave a donation, and today we are urging you to do the same.

Save the Children is working with ExStreet, a lifeline that has been thrown to the youngsters by former street kids who have escaped the horror of life on the landfill sites.

The organisation provides counselling, training and helping kids to get back into school.

To make a donation, phone 0800 8148148 or log onto www.savethechildren.org.uk/sky/.

One of Dpivision.com’s customers have put their best foot forward when they took part in a fund-raising walk for Autism Speaks.

And the team at Dpivision.com have helped them to raise hundreds of pounds for the charity by sponsoring them in their walk around the picturesque Alnwick Garden in Northumberland.

Gayle Hibbert-Jones, of Gidy Kipa, enjoyed the sponsored stroll around the world-famous gardens with her kids William and Ava, helping to raise more than £23,000 for Autism Research.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, project manager, said: “Well done on completing the walk and helping to raise such worthwhile funds.

“We were happy to sponsor you and help give you that push to keep you going along the way.”

Dpivision.com helps the national fight against cancer.

We sponsored Team Echo, for the second year running, to take part in the Great Women’s Run, which took place in Sunderland on Sunday.

Now in its third year, the six-mile race gave women of all ages the chance to get fit, have fun and raise bumper amounts of cash.

And the five reporters from the Sunderland Echo – Jessica Forster, Marissa Carruthers, Alison Goulding, Cara Houchen and Georga Spottiswood – completed the race, raising more than £500 for Cancer Research UK.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, dpivision.com project manager, said: “Well done girls, you did a really great job and have raised a huge amount of cash.

“Cancer Research UK is a worthwhile charity that helps people across the country on a daily basis and we were more than happy to help.”