Spam emails, we all get them, every day in fact and they are very annoying but did you realise just how big a problem they really are? Let’s starts with some astonishing facts. Cisco calculated that last year 120 billion spam messages were sent daily worldwide. That was double the previous year. Furthermore, it is [...]

Entrepreneurial MD’s are often less predictable than most. And UKFast’s man at the top is no exception. When talking recently about the various departments within UKFast, the turn of our 18 month old film department came up and Lawrence Jones said, “even if I ran a greengrocers, I’d have a video team.” It’s a comment [...]

Whilst thinking about where to start this newly extended Linux section of the UKFast blog, it dawned on me to simply start at the beginning and grow from there. A curious statement you may say, but one I had to think about in order to qualify. For me it started around ten years ago with [...]

Woolies has had a phoenix-like rebirth as an Internet retailer, the stories have enthused this week. The development is seen as a lovely, fluffy good news story to warm the hearts of Britons in these cold times. It is as though the Woolies name is so loved by us Brits that we don’t want to [...]

You don’t often see “likeability” as a key characteristic, or core competency when recruiting people. Yet in my view, it’s an essential business quality – “People Do Business With People” – whether it’s selling goods and services or customer operations, the ability to form genuine, warm relationships is one of the ingredients to successful, profitable [...]

With the recent announcement of the beta release of Hyper-V R2 (alongside Windows Server 2008 R2 beta), Microsoft are revealing a bevy of new and improved features to their virtualization offering.

The eagerly awaited interim publication of the Government report on the future of digital industries in Britain has suggested that ISPs should be forced to take part in Westminster’s snooping campaign. According to the authors of ‘Digital Britain’, the UK Government should introduce legislation forcing internet service providers to gather information on customers engaged in [...]

What makes a company a Best company? The internet offers all businesses the chance to promote themselves to the hilt like never before – and there are those who will consistently over-egg their credentials. You’ll find thousands who punch well above their weight and scratching beneath the surface will often reveal a severe lack of [...]