Recently returned from a trip to California and to make it a true American journey I decided I needed to drive a muscle car. The sort of car that you wouldn’t dream…
Digital Britain becomes a cash cow
Interesting development in the final draft of the Digital Britian report is the £6 a year telephone line tax. It is proposed that every single line in the country will be subjected…
Home working here to stay
Good article by one of my colleagues, Max Stoner on the Work Wise UK initiative.
The next generation of business
For those of you who are members of the Institute of Directors you might have seen my mug shot in this month’s magazine, Director. For those of you who haven’t you can…
BA does good
I am currently enjoying a break in west coast America and just wanted to write about the excellent service I received on my trip over. Admittedly a lot of spending on my…
Time to play
The playroom in the office is finally up and running. Bit difficult to make it out from the photo but sits alongside the video presence suite and gives visitors a chance to…
One rule for all
With the parliament expenses taking up a huge amount of news print, there seems to be lack of comparison between their structure and private business. I have expressed my concern previously that…
Wecession
I haven’t yet coined a phrase so we will see if this one catches on! Lots of talk recently on the quick in and quick out of the recession following a ‘V’…
Business will suffer as Tiscali sell to TalkTalk
Carphone Warehouse took Tiscali for £236m earlier this month which will have an interesting impact on the industry. Working through the numbers I believe the value works out to be around £138…
Big boys aren’t immune
This afternoon saw a large number of users across the internet fail to access Google. We had a high volume of customers this afternoon report that Google.com and Google.co.uk were unavailable. And…
1-series is actually quite impressive
I recently hired a BMW 1 series while visiting Austria and surprisingly liked the car. As an avid reader of anything car I had perceived it to be rubbish and badly designed.…
Lost art
It may seem really simple but it is amazing what a difference a thank you email makes when you are happy with a service. In our busy lives it is all too…
When is 100 Mb/s too much?!
Recently had a new fibre line installed into the office for general office use, VoIP and video. As you can see from the picture it is bloody fast bringing a 50 MB…
Alistair Darling defends 50%
I went to the IoD (Institute of Directors) annual convention yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall. They had a number of speakers talking about their businesses and what they are doing in…
Which exchange? I’ll have two please.
It beggars belief but for those of you who have read my previous pieces on the aggregation services Fluidata offers in the form of PureFluid and Advance, it turns out that other…