I think it is very important when selling a product that the business itself uses whatever it might be. This definitely helps to iron out those annoying issues that a customer may…
Fluidata helps Britain wax
Little piece on Computer Weekly on how our ADVANCE service allowed the Brazilian Waxing Company to increase sales by 30%. It seems that most of the growth has come from men so…
Great product – shame about the customer service
I have eulogised at great length already about my car but one thing that needs to now be mentioned is the shoddy customer service that appears to be synonymous with Audi ownership.…
Protect against an outage, make a plan
Something we always like to discuss with new customers is the necessity of backup, or more importantly a plan should the worse happen. As important as an SLA (Service Level Agreement) is…
Learning to cook
I spent an enjoyable weekend at the new cookery school at Daylesford the other week. Daylesford is the brain child of Lady Bamford (wife to Sir Anthony Bamford, chap in charge of…
The future is not electric or hydrogen
With the Geneva motor show into full swing it is obvious that the whole car industry has gone mad. While it was funny to watch ‘green’ people go out in their thousands…
The rise of stealth taxes
Considering there are over 20 million motorists in the UK, it is surprising what rubbish we put up with. You would have thought by upsetting so many people with the huge tax…
Private Equity the solution to our economic mess?
I attended a very interesting breakfast meeting hosted by The Stone Club in association with Coutts. The topic was around private equity and it’s involvement within our economy, and how opportunities exist…
Potholes, they were always there
As we slowly come out of our short-lived ice age I was surprised at the media coverage on the number of potholes that appeared following the snow this winter. Obviously it makes…
Grow up Canada, don’t jump on the hate Britian bandwagon
Well congratulations to Amy Williams who managed against all the odds to achieve gold in skeleton (sledging) at the winter Olympics in Canada. For one of the few nations competing without any…
Social networking has downsides
I recently went to visit my brother in New York over a long weekend. It was a good opportunity to remind myself why London is still the best place to live (apart…
Colocation is all the rage
From the amount of emails I have received from companies over the past few weeks pushing hosting space I believe we are seeing a glut of capacity currently in the market space.…
What is the point in Google installing fibre?
Google’s latest announcement is to move further into telecommunications and deploy a fibre network in the US offering up to 500,000 consumers access to a 1 Gb/s network. Now I have written…
Routers can make all the difference
Interesting piece on thinkbroadband.com with regards to router speeds over the O2/Be network we did a few months back. Basically as part of the wholesale offering for ADSL2+ we had to collate…
Moving into the cloud
I was speaking to a client yesterday on the merits of virtualisation and what needed to be considered before moving his company ‘into the cloud’. A lot has been said in the…