I am interested in the high publicity that the third runway at Heathrow is getting, especially as I don’t have any strong opinions one way or the other. However I don’t understand…
Lord Carter fails to understand broadband
Another politician without a clue on the industry they are governing? Well if you believe the hype on the forthcoming Digital Britain report then it looks like another own goal for broadband in…
Willie Walsh shows his BA colours
In contrast to my last post on the awful management of Little Chef I did catch another program which was presented by Gerry Robinson on BBC Four. It is a new series…
Big Chief, Little Chief
Having watched the past three episodes of Channel 4’s Big Chef, Little Chef I thought I would voice my concern over the abysmal management team in Little Chef lead by Ian Pegler…
TV fees to go into high speed broadband
Interesting news over the weekend was the government’s idea not to sell the analogue TV signals, which become available in 2012, but instead use it as the carrot to get more investment…
So how was 2008 and will 2009 trump it?
In broadband and telecommunications speak the answer is yes; financially it is anyone’s guess. Looking at the consolidation that took place over the past few years with the major mobile carriers moving…
Why Virtualisation?
I recently completed an article on Microsoft’s new datacentre in Ireland and the impact on the IT industry as a whole. http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/12/30/virtualisation-and-hosted-applications-microsofts-perspective/1/
50 Mb/s for consumers
Virgin Media this week launched their 50 Mb/s home service. I have written here before on their offering and misuse of the term ‘fibre’ and will be interested to see exactly how…
Volvo has the edge
Those of you who know me well will testify that I am somewhat of a car bore. And one of my all time favourite car manufacturers is Volvo. I am not sure…
BT Price increases
Might have passed you by but BT recently increased the cost of services for its wholesale customers. There is also talk of Openreach being given an opportunity to raise their wholesale costs…
The UK needs Power!
With talk of Microsoft and Google investing in new datacentres for hosted applications I am concerned with necessary power upgrade that is required for the national grid. With datacentres consuming apparently more…
Support Satisfaction
We recently completed a survey by calling clients who had raised support tickets with us over the past 6-months. Although we were unable to reach many of them (probably too busy working…
Customer Feedback
Nice to see customer’s discussing your company’s offering online – positive and negative comments. http://www.josephjburns.com/2008/04/30/fluidata-the-cheaper-alternative-to-leased-lines As with all services customer feedback is so important as they use the service day in, day…
How to measure carbon
Had a demonstration recently by Access on their latest module which will be offered in Access Dimensions very shortly. Our system integrator Polestar organised a morning at their offices outside Portsmouth to…
Gartner says think about today and not tomorrow
Don’t know if anyone recently read the article in Computer Weekly (11-17 November issue) which was based on the recent Gartner Symposium. But interesting feedback by Gartner for global CIOs on cutting…