A recent article by the Ombudsman Service has highlighted potential pitfalls of gifting connected devices this Christmas. The Ombudsman reports that 13 million people will be given smartphones this holiday period, with five million of them getting their very first smartphone. It predicts that 136,000GB of data will be used on Christmas Day as people get to grips with their new toys. Once you...

Are you a traditionalist when it comes to your carols? With Christmas only a few days away now, some may be fed up with hearing carols. Especially as some stores starting playing them as early as November. But for others, they can’t get enough. Luckily in this day and age you don’t need to find your nearest music store to buy a whole album for your favourites. No longer do we listen in to Capital...

According to the Global Games Market report, the global gaming industry will be worth $91.5bn by the end of 2015 (a growth of 9%). Gaming isn’t just something that teenage boys do anymore. In fact, Pew Research found that 42% of American games console owners are women - as opposed to 37% of men (the rest didn’t specify a gender). It also found that 55% of US adults between 30 and 49 owned a...

With the recent news Deutsche Telekom is launching a new public cloud solution – run out of its Germany data centres and billed as being the foundation for a “ secure European internet of things”, it looks increasingly likely that European companies are trying to create cloud solutions free of U.S. influence. Back in October, the European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid

In the first of a series of guest blogs coming to you from the brains of our wickedly talented technical support team, networking knight and all-around office nice guy Mike Arscott shares his top 4 support tips that no Fluidata customer should be leaving the showroom without. So without further ado or unnecessary embellishment (unless you consider this sentence such a thing), let's hand the...

Technology and data are so firmly embedded into the heart of every business that the problem of how and where to store data has led to a sharp rise in the use of cloud storage for business. Most of us will use services such as Dropbox or Google Apps in our private lives, and in business Amazon Web Services (AWS) is so ubiquitous that it’s almost a household name. Here, we outline the biggest...

Those of us that work in the communications industry are all too familiar with Ofcom and its role in shaping communications in the UK. However, businesses outside of our industry and individuals really don’t know much about the value it can bring to them. Many simply see the regulatory body as someone to complain to when they are having issues with their broadband. But is there a place for it to...

Please note that our network freeze will be in place from 6 pm on 16/12/2015 and will last until 10 am on 04/01/2016. During this time, any change requests that involve the Fluidata core network will be postponed until the resumption of normal services on 04/01/2016. This is to ensure existing services are not affected by a lack of resource by the network operator. Additionally, our seasonal...

Integrated Services of Digital Network (ISDN) was the standard way of transmitting data (including voice and video) for many years. By using this system, people could get a better quality connection via traditional copper phone lines. But what purpose does ISDN have in a world driven by high-speed internet? Telephones used to be a standard feature in most homes in the developed world, but now...

These days, cloud computing has become ubiquitous, with many businesses using some form of cloud computing technology to run day-to-day operations. Computing started with the idea of one person operating one machine and only evolved into the concept of multiple users and virtualisation when data scientists needed to find a way for more than one person to use the same computer at the same time....