HMV re-entered the digital entertainment industry since going into administration earlier this year. Their new app is the first non iTunes based service on the IOS platform and will be going head-to-head against what is already an a highly monopolised micro-market. The app will integrate with iTunes (as well as Android phones), meaning the purchases made on the app will go directly on to the...

“Balloon powered internet for everyone” is the tag line being touted by Google at the moment promoting Project Loon, it’s the new way for people to connect to the Internet. Emphasis has been heavily placed on the word ‘everyone’ with two-thirds of the world’s population currently unable to access the internet. Project Loon is essentially a network of balloons that ‘float’ in the stratosphere,...

Employee data theft is on the rise. Reports last month, based on EMV research, tell us the number of thefts of confidential information cases heard at the high court has risen by 58% in the last year and by a staggering 5,000% since 2006. The adoption of cloud computing technologies within work places, in tandem with a rise in BYOD and home working, provide us potential answers as to why...

A trend we’ve watched with some interest here at Fluidata over the last few years is the surges in traffic across our network during popular sporting events. The Olympics last year providing perhaps the best example. Last week we witnessed another extreme spike in traffic but in this case as a consequence of Apples’ IOS 7 software release. During the first 24 hours of the software becoming...

Earlier this week BT brought the curtain down on dial up internet; marking the end of the connectivity technology that many of us enjoyed our nascent furrows on the internet with. The narrow band technology long since ceased being the preferred choice of internet access, and according to BT only a ‘tiny’ number of people (thought to be around 100,000) still used the service prior to...

One of the many ways in which the internet has altered society is the platform it has provided us all upon which we can have ‘our say’. From consumers using twitter to complain about the poor customer service of their mobile phone provider, to the way in which citizens harnessed social media to topple repressive regimes during the Arab Spring, the internet has given ordinary people a voice they...

When we think of addiction we normally think of drugs, alcohol, gambling; age old vices that have and often in cohorts with one another, exercised a pernicious grip over millions of victims from the ordinary to the star-studded. But what about more modern addictions, 21st century addictions, ones which (not to play down the severity of them) just don’t sound as intoxicating, as ravaging, as...

A recent report commissioned by Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, has led twenty two business leaders of some of Britain’s biggest companies to put their signatures to a movement aiming to revolutionise traditional working practices. The group, named The Agile Future Forum includes the likes of Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT, Martyn Phillips, chief executive of B&Q and...

Last night Fluidata was successful in winning ‘Best Large Business Hosting’ award at The ISPAs, the UK Internet industry awards. Now in its 15th year The ISPAs recognises a number of categories including Hosting. Competition was stiff because we had to compete with hostgator and ipage hosting; however Fluidata was able to demonstrate successfully how it supplies a number of large customers with...

Via an innovative marketing stunt used to launch his new album, the American hip hop artist Jay Z, has re-written a 55 year old rule used for measuring album sales. The 43 year old rappers latest album Magna Carta The Holy Grail, was only officially released Thursday 4 th July 2013. However prior to this Samsung purchased one million digital copies to be given away to owners of their handsets....