It was recently announced that BT have won further contracts by local councils to be responsible for additional rural broadband roll-outs, beginning with Oxfordshire and Dorset early next year. Through BT being awarded this latest contract, it has reduced hope of niche operators delivering stronger and faster services in the area, such as FTTP rather than FTTC to businesses and households. Yet...

Last night was the Top 100 Tech Track Awards presentation event sponsored by the Sunday Times, Hiscox and Barclays. This is our third year running that Fluidata has made it into the list and this year we even had a feature in the iPad version of the Sunday Times. With growth exceeding 40% year on year for the past 5 years the business has benefited from a number of big client wins and continues...

We stand, not at the beginning of the information revolution but on the river bank moments before the banks burst and change the landscape forever. As our far more learned peers will tell us the future is like the Chaos theory; every development, every variation, every idea has the potential to change where the river bank breaks and what change it will bring with it. In this article I have...

Here at Fluidata we pride ourselves on connectivity that is resilient and one which allows businesses to stay online. Whilst many business managers across the country are adopting this ‘fail safe’ attitude when it comes to their choice of connectivity, the same cannot be said in other areas of business continuity. The impact of St Jude’s storm on Monday 28th October brought this subject into...

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...