This weekend saw eighteen Bandwidth Bandits take on the challenge of Mud Runner and compete in a 12 KM off road race across some of the toughest terrain known to man. For the past 80 years Eastnor Castle has played home to Land Rover who use the 5,000 acres as a proving ground for their cars. For the race the hills, ruts, water and lots of mud left by the cars is turned into a gruelling race...

Last month’s London Fashion show provided an illustration of how the fashion world, always renowned for being ‘up-to-date’, has adopted modern technology. Burberry for example streamed their new catwalk collection live and accompanied it with running commentary via Twitter. Whilst high street fashion retail brands such as All Saints are furnishing in store clients with iPads; so they can view...

As a company who has keen interest in BDUK developments, via our involvement (alongside Magdalene and NetAdmin) in finding alternative rural and urban broadband solutions – our Service Exchange Platform (SEP), it was intriguing to read the comments of Rob Gallagher (The Director of Informa Telecoms & Media’s Global Broadband and TV Research) explaining why ‘ UK Cities Must Pick BT for Superfast...

The announcement of impending 4D technology from the CJ group of Korea provides an interesting insight into the current changes in cinema technology and delivery. For most, 4D is understood as something experienced at a theme park, museum or a local planetarium. Distributing this on a mass scale to 200 American cinemas, however, could have interesting effects on the role of connectivity within...

Fluidata are delighted to announce that for the second year running we have made it onto the Sunday Times Tech Track. Having recorded 48.9% growth last year, we rank as the 73 rd fastest growing private technology company in the UK. Featuring in the Tech Track was one of the company’s goals when we first started out (back in 2004) so last year felt like a watershed moment for us, though in many...

Over the years internet connectivity has become an increasingly integral part of society – with its uses ranging from emails, voice calls and even heartbeat monitors in hospitals. So is it any surprise that seemingly impossible feats - such as seeing through brick walls via Wi-Fi - are no longer far from reality? Yes, it’s true. Engineers at University College London have devised a new...

Fluidata received notice from RIPE on Tuesday that they now have just a /10 left before their last /8 of IPv4 addresses. What this means is, that at current allocation levels, there is about 1 months’ worth of IPv4 space left across Europe before RIPE have to start issuing from their last ever block. When that happens the regulations on new allocations are tightened even further, and in turn,...

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is sweeping across businesses throughout the UK; with employees cramming their bags with their own devices for a day at work, or logging on with them from remote locations. According to recent Juniper research over 150 million employees owned smartphones and tablets are used in enterprise – a figure that is expected to rise to 350 million by 2014. Exploring the...

The flame now extinguished, the final race run, the games are all played out. There’s a wistful, melancholy feel to London right now; part deflated, yet still standing proud, like a flag flying half-mast - one mourning the end of the games, games that surprised us all. Because we all worried and fretted and moaned – about security, about chaos on the tube, about home working and how the internet...

There has been much discussion in the media of late surrounding the enforced ISP blockade of torrent and file sharing websites such as Pirate Bay. Following this, Torrent Freak have recently published what they claim to be a leaked crisis report from the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) suggesting the music industry is arming itself for a full blown assault on the...