To cut a long story short it basically makes the mobile phone an extension of your office phone network allowing it to behave like a desk phone in your office while out…
Unfit IT professionals run for charity
Action Against Hunger International; a global humanitarian organisation committed to ending world hunger via long term solutions, working towards preventing, detecting and treating malnutrition. Currently they are providing relief work in areas…
New York – Nice place to visit, not to work
I have been to visit my brother in New York a few times this year who emigrated with work last year. I enjoy going to the ‘Big Apple’ and being part of…
Your mother needs to understand to be successful
I had my mother on the phone the other day with a technical problem. For some reason the DVD player had stopped working and was refusing to play the film she had…
I am watching the NOC grow
Along with our recent move to a new office in London we also this year opened a dedicated Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Hemel Hempstead. With a growing client base it was…
It is not fibre!
I am fed up with the apparent lack of education when it comes to our national broadband networks. Call me old fashioned but I believe in a world where what you sell…
Going slightly mad
I am not going to spend time trying to justify myself here but suffice to say petrol is obviously running through my veins more than I previously imagined. The other weekend at…
Last to the party….. again.
BT announced with great fanfare the launch of Annex-M services on their ADSL2+ (21CN) platform allowing up to 2.5 Mb/s upstream (from standard 1.3 Mb/s). Whooohooo. Excuse me if you detect a…
The best show on earth
I spent an enjoyable Wednesday afternoon last week filming tonight’s episode of Top Gear. Through a friend of the family I was able to get a ticket and join a few hundred…
LINX suffers
There seems to have been a some power issues over at Telehouse North this afternoon. A few ISPs and hosting providers are reporting outages and most notably LINX have suffered a significant…
Britian has the ability
For those of you who visited Goodwood Festival of Speed on Sunday a few weeks back you would have been greeted by an awesome sight. No, not the new McLaren MP4-12C or…
BT risks everything to become a media company
With the announcement last week that BT will be offering Sky Sports through its BT Vision product, I am convinced, more than ever that BT will focus on becoming a media company…
Who to choose for your home internet connection?
Interesting results from ThinkBroadband’s latest comparison between the main internet providers. Unsurprisingly for some, BE and O2 come out on top of everything including speed, which might seem odd considering the most…
BA’s reputation gets a battering as it struggles through another strike
Another holiday, another BA strike. For those who are familiar with my holiday plans they always involve some kind of issue. Whether it be a strike, queue on M25, volcano, war or…
Work hard play hard (again)
I have written before about the virtues of a good work/life balance, well last week saw the introduction of a new toy to our London office. The question was what to do…