Flappers – I can’t stand them. No, I haven’t got anything against bob haired young maidens with fringed dresses, dancing the Charleston, I’m referring to the workplace “flapper”. People deal with pressure differently and “flappers” are a problem for leaders. When the pressure is on, but the job still needs to get done, the last [...]

Google has launched its remarkable Street View service of British cities to a mixed reaction. Supporters of the technology marvel at its cleverness and talk about how the service can revolutionise how people research cities to visit and houses to buy. Opponents argue it invades individual privacy and is a potential security hazard. And then [...]

Today the 6 Nations international rugby union competition comes to a climax with Wales and Ireland battling it out for the title. At UKFast we are big supporters of rugby, including sponsoring Premiership side Sale Sharks, so we are very excited about today’s three match ‘Super Saturday’ extravaganza. Part of what attracts us to support [...]

I am surprised any work gets done at all in UK business. There seems to be more “passion” in the workplace than a Jackie Collins blockbuster, Not that it’s all hearts and flowers – it’s just the business world certainly seems full of “passionate” people at the moment. I can’t seem to listen to a [...]

New research from Brand Republic has found that the British public are prepared to have their browsing monitored to facilitate a more personalised service from the search engine providers. Apparently Google intends to monitor user habits in order to target ads and this has alarmed privacy advocates who believe such acts are too much of [...]

With all the hype surrounding Windows Server 2008 it was easy to get dazzled by the bright lights of the big new features like its built in virtualization capabilities, the server core offering and the all new install process. In the mix with all this was IIS 7.0.

To enable and incentivize the deployment and growth of the Hyper-V and System Center products, Microsoft released a software license which brings together the key management and protection technologies. This is by no means a new license – in fact it first released in 2007 – but it has come to the fore in recent [...]

Thanks to the Internet we can all now post our opinions and observations on the world as they happen. Blogging has become a popular endeavour across the globe and it has even entered the business world as a legitimate new form of b2b and b2c communication. The benefits of communicating in this way are numerous. [...]

The Centre for Brand Analysis has published its UK Superbrands list for 2009 with some interesting inclusions. The first thing that stands out is that Google is top of the list, as it was in 2008. And its rivals are nowhere in sight. This reiterates just how powerful the Google brand continues to be. The [...]