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...

Millions of Blackberry owners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been left without services following a large server crash yesterday. The problem appears to have originated in a datacentre in Slough which handles Blackberry services for the affected regions. Unlike other smartphone services, BlackBerry phones rely on a centralised internet service provided by RIM - making it...

According to reports yesterday over 5% (275,000) BT customers lost connectivity due to a power failure at a major BT exchange in the Birmingham area. Connections started to drop 13:00 and most residential customers began to see their services logging back on 15:00 onwards. However surprisingly it was business connections with higher SLAs and uptime assurances that had to wait even longer for...

Trends are prevalent in all industries, not least in IT where technology is perpetually subject to change and innovation. One of the trends we’ve witnessed over the last decade is the Managed WAN. WAN being an organisation’s Wider Area Network i.e allowing multiple users in multiple locations to communicate as if all part of one network. The WAN Network, particularly as it expands, taking on more...

Fluidata has been awarded 70th place in the 2011 Sunday Times Tech Track. The league table rates Britains top 100 tech companies in growth over the past 3-years. The award dinner takes place in November but the supplement was out in yesterdays Sunday Times. Included in the list were a number of Fluidata's customers and suppliers, showing that telecoms is one of the growing sectors in technology...

The internet is harnessed for variety of purposes these days from surfing the web to CCTV and voice and video conferencing. News this week is that it’s now being used to monitor a remote controlled heart! Fire fighter Michael DiBernado suffers from an irregular heart beat and has recently been fitted with a device which monitors it’s pulse and sends results to his consultant over the internet....