With the recent announcement of Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO at Apple there has been quite a lot of reflection in the papers on what impact he has made since returning…
The new place in the med
I spent an enjoyable week with my father at his new home in Montenegro where he has setup a business, Montenegro Marine Services, supporting yachts and motor boats in their newest marina,…
Apps continue to proliferate
I spent an interesting hour the other evening testing a new IPad app my bank are looking to launch later this year. I was expecting to go a long and just have…
How do you remember an IPv6 address?
I have been busy helping with training new staff the past week and one of the new topics on our training course is IPv6. When we started the training program about six…
New website for Fluidata
Today sees the launch of our new company website www.fluidata.co.uk. Using the latest in WordPress technology I am now able to edit the site as much as I like without having to…
The centre of my digital world
While under my desk at home plugging in another new piece of technology, I got thinking as to how much my home now relies on my home broadband router. Considering it is…
PureFluid gets an upgrade
Our aggregation platform which bonds multiple internet lines together (including different products and carriers) has had a mild facelift with the launch of newer Cisco hardware. Having standardised the platform on Cisco…
Email on the move
Until recently I was always very proud of the fact that I never setup my iPhone to receive email and so the only time I responded to email was when I was…
World IPv6 Day
In preparation for tomorrow, the Telegraph has done a piece on the World IPv6 Day, which I assume will make it into the broadsheet (you’ll notice the little comment at the bottom).…
London could learn a bit from Hong Kong
I have been lucky enough to have had a bit of holiday last week and spent it in Hong Kong, my new number one city (after London of course). Having never visited…
Playroom Mk2
Nearly exactly a year after we signed the lease for our new office, our new demo suite is now ready. I have spoken before about our old playroom in our previous office…
Publicity stunt or new network?
There are some interesting developments in the world of Rural Broadband with Fujitsu this week announcing its new consortium with Virgin, TalkTalk and Cisco to deploy rural fibre to the premises (FTTP).…
The two speed internet
I have been interested to read on the subject of net neutrality (ie that all internet traffic is treated equal) and how the belief is that a two tier internet will be…
Rural connectivity is used as a lever
There was an interesting turn of events this week with an open letter being sent to Ed Vaizey, Communications Minister, from a number of infrastructure carriers demanding for lower costs on BT’s…
It must be able to go faster
I recently moved home, near to Stratford upon Avon, and one of the hopes I had was faster broadband. It wasn’t the only reason for moving of course… After years of doing…