So, you can email, photograph, locate yourself and play a million and one useless games, all from the comfort of your very own mobile communication device. What other avenue to venture into then than that of portable bank cards. Google recently announced it’s latest development “Google Wallet”. In a nutshell this acts very much like [...]

The second hack attack on gaming giant Sony has highlighted the damaging impact a security breach can have on even the biggest and most well-established of businesses. A week after the company revealed that an attack on its Playstation network had leaked sensitive personal details of tens of millions of its online video gamer customers, [...]

Chancellor George Osborne has received a great deal of press this week for offering a £50m prize for high-speed broadband as part of his four-year plan to extend and improve broadband access across the UK. As reports show that sixty-nine percent of companies now outsource their IT services, at UKFast we believe this proposed improvement [...]

The news announced last week that banks are earning additional revenues by enabling customers to use mobile devices for their banking needs, is more evidence to support the idea that m-commerce is a fast-growing industry and businesses should consider how they will harness its power sooner rather than later. According to a TowerGroup study commissioned [...]

The news announced today that The Telegraph is to put its web content behind a paywall is significant – not only for the publishing industry but for the advertising industry, for digital businesses of all sizes and for consumers of media. The newspaper is the third of the big five nationals to opt for a [...]

ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 163 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. ISO standards are regulated in the UK by a governmental body called UKAS – United Kingdom Accreditation Service. If you don’t see the UKAS tick box and crown, don’t trust that the [...]

Over 50 per cent of SMEs do not have a plan in place to deal with an IT disaster, according to research out today from research company Symantec. This news comes despite the fact that SMEs have on average six IT outages per year which on average cost a business nearly £2,000 per day. Symantec [...]

Although many of us at UKFast thoroughly enjoyed this year’s white christmas, it has emerged that the weather may have been keeping shoppers away from high street stores over the festive period. With a definite lull in the predicted sales figures for retailers during the usual christmas chaos, some critics have blamed the weather and [...]

FairSearch, the coalition fighting against Google’s planned $700 million acquisition of travel software firm ITA Software, is growing continually and one of its latest recruits, Microsoft, is one of the biggest to have joined the campaign so far.

The Digital Entrepreneur Awards last week were an eye opener. As part of the team at UKFast – the headline sponsor of this year’s awards – I knew that they aimed to reward the best online businesses for their entrepreneurial achievements. What I didn’t know is just how crucial a role “The Everyman” would play in the feats of those fast-growing businesses on the web.