Yesterday saw Britain spend an amazing £456million in just 24 hours. That is £19million an hour over the internet on Cyber Monday - the biggest online shopping day of the year. When looking at our customers’ usage we only saw an increase of 5% above normal with office staff logging in during their lunch break to shop online. This is not too surprising considering half of the UK’s populations now...

The UK are currently ranked 25 th in the world in terms of broadband speed, according to reports, with the average speed at 6.8 Mb/s. George Osborne has recently announced that cities will be rolling out higher broadband coverage with an estimate £5bn spend to improve the infrastructure. This investment will see superfast speeds of between 80-100 Mb/s. However critics have argued that the money...

We will be taking orders up until Friday the 23 rd December 2011. After that day there will be no sales or provisioning department available, support however will continue as normal. The office will reopen on 3rd January 2012. In regards to our network freeze: Last day for core network configuration changes will be December 20 th, this is in line with the industry standard and to ensure maximum...

The Olympic Games will be an exciting time for our capital city, but with over 11 million spectators and athletes set to make our busy transport infrastructure even busier, how will businesses be affected? Londoners have been reassured that TFLS’s investment of £6.5 billion into transport infrastructure enhancements, will make us better equipped to deal with the expected influx of traffic....

Last week saw Deloitte's annual award ceremony for the fastest growing companies in the UK (Fast 50) and Europe (Fast 500). While Fluidata didn't quite manage to make it into the Fast 50 this year, we did however maintain our position in the Fast 500 within Europe.

Last night saw Chris and I collect our award for our inclusion in this year’s Sunday Times Tech Track. Held at Vinopolis the event sponsored by Microsoft saw all one hundred companies represented with talks from the founder of Moonpig, Nick Jenkins, and Richard Noble OBE. It was a very enjoyable evening with a wide range of interesting and exciting companies to network with. It was also great to...

260 days to go Ahead of next year’s Olympics and Paralympics the technological team behind the event have been in full preparation to make sure the technical operations and IT frameworks are ready to deliver real-time results for the games. A team of 450 have been busy testing and experimenting with the systems to ensure data processing is working at a high standard. An archery test event at...

According to the most recent Ofcom research, we are seeing much heavier use of the Internet. Strange to think that only five years ago the majority of Britain’s would watch analogue TV, listen to analogue radios and buy or rent DVDs. Now it appears that we tune in to news websites (BBC, Sky), use cloud based music systems (iTunes, Spotify) and stream or download the most recent movies (Apple TV,...

Please note that connectivity installations could be subject to delay in the coming weeks and months. The biggest single reason for delays in this period is the Christmas/New Year shutdown – where all fibre carriers shut down their networks between the 2 nd December and the 5 th of January. Adding approximately 15 -20 working delays to any leased line orders in progress during that time. DSL...

282 days to go Seoul 1988 and the South Korean Telecommunications Revolution. Seoul ’88 is probably best remembered for Ben Johnson’s yellow eyed, steroid propelled , 100 metre dash to Olympic infamy. However a very different, but just as enduring legacy of the games is its role as a catalyst for South Korea’s emergence as a Technology Super Power. South Korea is one of the world's most hi-tech...