A recent survey of internet access from the office of national statistics, has shown significant increases in internet usage within the UK. It’s calculated that 41.26 million UK adults use the internet, with the largest growth deriving from the 16-25 age group. Most prolific growth has been witnessed in mobile phone internet usage, an increase in 15% since 2010 means this medium now accounts for...

The case for anonymity on the world wide web has been brought to the fore again these past few weeks, following comments from Google’s head honcho Eric Schmidt at Edinburgh’s International Television Festival. “The internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer.” I am split on whether anonymity is right or...

Scientists at Cambridge and Manchester University have found ways to use graphene to enhance internet speeds by up to hundred times the speed we currently consider ‘superfast’ broadband. Graphene is quickly becoming the ‘darling’ of the technological research and has further enhanced its reputation of being the material of the 21 st century by adding ‘connectivity’ to its already sterling...

Two weeks ago, with the skyline of London and other cities across the UK slowly filling with the black smoke of burning cars and buildings, many were speculating about how much damage the riots would cause - both economically and socially. We often think about the immediate effects of the damage, i.e. loss of destroyed or looted stock, reduction in trading hours, but it seems that some of our...

Fluidata will be organising drinks for our customers on the last Thursday of each month. Please do pop along, to a bar somewhere in London ( contact your account manager from more details) for some free beer/wine/soft drinks, or whatever shall take your fancy, and a spot of conversation with Fluidata and your peers from within the IT industry. Do let us know whether you’d be keen on attending,...

Bringing connectivity to rural homes and businesses has received quite a lot of press recently as the government gears up for a significant investment into new last mile networks. This should help to stimulate local communities and make low density populations more accessible. Part of the issue however, with this kind of government investment, is trying to give consumers a choice of provider. The...

As the voracious interest to watch, understand and contextualise real time events increases, social media networks like Twitter and Facebook are fast becoming the favoured source for live information. Many a time I’ve watched the twitter stream of an event or a story’s respective hash tag, hanging on every word like I’m in the middle of the action. Last week, as both London and the rest of the UK...

The internet looks to be the first port of call for most business workers during any major news event such as Wimbledon or Mr Murdoch, as previously reported. However nothing compares to riots and looting across the UK. With a 60% increase in traffic today compared to previous highs and over 50% of that being identified as BBC's IPlayer traffic. Today has been the higher of the two days, quickly...

In the recent past a number of global organisations have been victims of cyber hacking, with strong evidence pointing to one state being the perpetrator – China. Although the organisation which uncovered the attacks, McAfee, has not officially named any states, many other experts have suggested that the evidence points strongly towards the country. The media is reporting more and more security...

History teaches us that progress is at the very heart of human nature and society. Progress may not always preset itself as linear, it may be cyclical or even - if we subscribe to the theories of Hegel or Marx - dialectical, yet society, we are taught, always moves forward – in science, in philosophy, in liberty, in modernity etc. Technology is certainly something that we witness progress in and...