Geoff is the Head of Online at Simplifydigital and is a guest writer for Broadbandwatcher.co.uk He usually has an opinion about everything and does a good job of boring his colleagues at any given opportunity. Geoff spends much of his free time tinkering with the websites in the SImplifydigital family, which actually makes him pretty good value.
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Contact: gslaughter@simplifydigital.co.uk
You might remember Simplifydigital reporting on a major bug which was putting the majority of IE users’ machines at risk. The risk has also been even been given a name, “zero day”. The flaw makes it possible to quite literally make elephants out of flies in terms of malware. This means that a small script that all IE versions…
Geoff Slaughter - 20 September 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
Life online is dangerous these days. Computer security firm, McAfee, has reported that in Q2 various types of malware have been popping up just like mushrooms after the rain. To be exact, as many as 1.5m fresh and never seen before malware types have been constructed by cyber attackers in the second quarter of this year. The firm stated that…
Geoff Slaughter - 14 September 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
It seems that all internet service providers such as Virgin Media, Sky (The Cloud) and O2 which decided to invest heavily in public wireless broadband made a very wise choice. Virgin Media has confirmed that during the Olympic Game period 443,000 commuters made use of its Wi-Fi network which is spread throughout London Underground. As a quick reminder, the company plans…
Geoff Slaughter - 13 September 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
FTTC is of course very useful – it makes speeds of up to 80Mbps possible and generally makes the broadband experience much more pleasant. However, it can cause trouble as well. There has been a complaint from a certain Midhurst resident who stated that the placement of a BT FTTC cabinet was troublesome seeing as it restricted pavement access for…
Geoff Slaughter - 24 August 2012 | 1 comments. Read more
Have you ever dreamed of having free wireless broadband on buses? Imagine that blissful experience – scrolling through websites, looking up bus schedules, tweeting and whatever else comes to mind… Well, if you live in South Hampshire, your dreams are coming true as you are reading this. Hampshire County Council‘s (HCC) has secured funds of £4.5m along with additional money…
Geoff Slaughter - 16 August 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
In the times when the Cloud provides wireless connections there, BT Wi-Fi elsewhere, O2 in other places while Virgin Media Wi-Fies the London Underground, it seems to make sense to have a universal pass. In comes iPass with its single login solution. iPass has confirmed that its customers (businesses) can now take advantage of 1m Wi-Fi and ethernet hubs around…
Geoff Slaughter - 7 August 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
You might remember BT giving up on its BT Openzone and BT Fon branches in order to launch an all new general BT Wi-Fi sector. And it seems that the venture kicked off with a bang as the telecoms giant just announced that it completed rolling out as many as 500,000 Wi-Fi hotspots all around the capital. The initial target was…
Geoff Slaughter - 3 August 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
It seems that Wales is on its way to getting the best internet services in the UK, seeing as the principality has invested a whopping £425m to blanket itself with broadband. The plan is to supply superfast broadband of at least 25Mbps and more to 96 per cent and giving access to basic speeds of 2Mbps to the remainder. Compared to…
Geoff Slaughter - 20 July 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
Time for some good business news. O2 Wholesale has just penned papers with both Timico, which is a successful business broadband supplier, as well as QiComm, a telecommunications provider. This will expand the list of services that the companies will be able to deliver. Timico, for instance, who is no stranger to having partnerships with O2 in the past, will get the…
Geoff Slaughter - 17 July 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
Some of you might remember that the UK Government has issued a warning that some broadband connections may be severely affected during this summer’s biggest sporting event. Apparently now the authorities decided to take it back and say that everything’s going to be just fine. Previously the government suggested that ISPs would impose stricter data caps to make sure all customers…
Geoff Slaughter - 9 July 2012 | 0 comments. Read more
