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....

Great excitement in the Fluidata office this week when our founder and MD, Piers Daniell, was named ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ in the 2013 London Loves Excellence awards (from the business title LondonLovesBusiness.com). The award is a huge honour, all the more so as the competition for all categories was impressive. Other award winners included Ink, Addison Lee and Pret a Manger; and...

Fluidata, the premium data communications company, has won the Judges’ award at the 2013 Information Technologists Company (ITC) Enterprise Awards, billed as the ‘Oscars of the UK technology industry’. The judges award is given to the entrant that, in the judges’ view, has demonstrated the ability to succeed, continue revenue growth, attract investment, innovate, and show clear leadership....

Big Data is the latest tech industry buzzword, but what is it and how does it affect us? Well in the simplest terms it denotes a large (very large in fact) amount of data. We’re talking about a classification which deems 30-50 terabytes a “minimum”. To place that into perspective, one terabyte of audio recorded at CD quality will contain around 2,000 hours of audio, while the first 20 years’...

The Internet has become such a vital part of our lives it only seems right to have a system in place that monitors and controls crime in the same way we would offline. Certain images may pop into one’s head when thinking of how the internet is policed. Pondering ‘cyber-crime fighters’; guarding against Trojan horses, spyware or any other sinister sounding web menaces, or the ‘internet police’;...

This year when we did Tough Mudder I was able to bring along my new GoPro camera to capture some of the action. While I still have much to learn about holding the camera steady and how to use video editing software it does give a flavour as what the event is like.

You can get more information on our FTTPoD offering by clicking here. BT’s latest move forward in the deployment of infrastructure to underpin high-speed connections is Fibre to the Premises on Demand. Unlike BT’s current FTTP offering, where fibre is run along pylons directly to the house, FTTPoD uses existing FTTC infrastructure as much as possible. Fibre optic cable is laid up to cabinets that...