Making uncensored information available remains firmly at the forefront of Wikileaks’ mission statement, despite the current troubles. And these are large scale troubles. The news has been flooded this week with allegations surrounding the website and its creator Julian Assange. Claiming to “keep governments open”, the site has released 250,000 cable messages between top US [...]

As main sponsors of the Digital Entrepreneur Awards 2010, everyone at UKFast was thrilled to see the event come together in such a spectacular and sparkling fashion on Wednesday night at the Palace Hotel in Manchester. London restaurant group Pied a Terre and Masabi – the software developer that closed a deal with trainline.com in [...]

The Guardian has today revealed that a newspaper app made by Murdoch for the iPad has been, “secretly under development for several months.” Following the introduction of paywalls to many News Corp titles earlier this year, Mr Murdoch’s multinational is to enter the app market with the “Daily”- a newspaper app made exclusively for the [...]

LinkedIn, the site which refers to itself as, “the world’s largest professional network with more than 80 million members worldwide,” has this week launched a service to teach users how to ‘brand’ themselves better online. With millions of potential employees profiling themselves online and consequently thousands of recruiters wanting to have a sneak peak at [...]

So, it is official… last night UKFast was named the IT Employer of the Year at the IT Industry Awards 2010! Our communications director Jonathan Bowers attended the award ceremony last night in London which attracted hundreds of business leaders and celebrated industry excellence across the UK. MD Lawrence Jones is on a business trip [...]

As Halloween approaches, every day this week we are bringing you either a “Tip or Treat” from the team here at UKFast. Keep your eyes peeled for a wealth of technical tips and a selection of exciting freebies, available through our daily blogs! In the spirit of promoting exceptional customer service, today we are offering [...]

A senior Microsoft researcher has this week been arguing that PCs infected with a virus should be blocked from the internet. Scott Charney, the corporate vice president for Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing, wrote in a blog post that infected computers should be temporarily banned from the internet until they have been cleaned. The proposal is intended [...]

With the UK terror threat level rising to “Severe” and the US State Department releasing an official warning for Americans travelling to Europe, it can come as no surprise that the Obama administration has turned its watchful eye on social networking. In a move echoing Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ BlackBerry ban earlier [...]

Internet TV may mean yet more bad news for the pockets of broadband users, according to the director general of the BBC. Following on from August’s revelations that 97 per cent of customers are not getting the broadband services that they are being sold, home broadband costs could rise even further if internet connected TV [...]

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s social media phenomenon being immortalised on the silver screen this month, the privacy and security concerns of Facebook et al are still the big news. According to a recent study by Panda Security, around a third of small and medium-sized businesses were infected with malware through social networking sites in July alone [...]