Perhaps the slightly more inevitable has just been reported as happening – the whole smartphone-owning population has a few more health concerns to consider in this modern day and age.
Because mobile broadband and other technologies give us the ability to have work done on our smarties as well as remotely from home, it has been established that we started spending an extra two hours and 18 minutes every single day for work purposes in our own time. And that’s on average.
This led the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), who…
Edita Lozovska - 19 June 2012 | comments. Read more
According to the European Union, Google may have been abusing its high if not completely dominant position and has until early July to rethink its business strategy.
The EU demanded that the firm published a document which would reveal ways the search giant would alter its current policies.
Joaquin Almunia, the EU Competition Commissioner, sent a letter to the company less than a month ago saying that the EU’s investigation found that Google was unrightfully giving its own products priority over its competitors’ services. The aforementioned in-depth investigation into Google’s practices…
Geoff Slaughter - 8 June 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, TalkTalk took a difficult decision which can potentially cost 390 employees their jobs in favour to set up another 450 vacancies, elsewhere.
The ISP hopes that the move to relocate the call centre should make operating the business more straight-forward and simplified.
TalkTalk also took the opportunity to underline that it saw its customer services lines phone far less clogged up with complaints and queries, however, according to Ofcom’s calculations, the ISP was still at the bottom of its list getting roughly 0.61 complaints per 1000 customers…
Edita Lozovska - 24 April 2012 | comments. Read more
More good news comes to Hull as MS3 Communications, an indie telecoms network, has agreed a £5.5m deal with Welch Civils Ltd to put together their first fibre optic infrastructure. According to the reports, the process will be kicked off with the first network reaching 50km.
The project is independent from KC, which is the dominant ISP for Hull, and is going to concentrate on solutions for businesses. The whole network is expected to reach 116km and should take roughly 6-7 months to deploy.
The good news is that the works…
Edita Lozovska - 29 March 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that TalkTalk is keen on boosting the popularity of its mobile products and has today announced that it appointed Dan Meader as the brand’s new Mobile Director.
Mr Meader is no newbie to senior positions nor the mobile/ISP sector and has previously worked at O2 as the Head of Direct Trading and also has a post at BT on his CV.
Tristia Clarke, Commercial Director of TalkTalk, was quoted as saying:
“We’re established as the value player in phone and broadband and we’ve been able to bring those principles to…
Geoff Slaughter - 3 January 2012 | comments. Read more
According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) the cash lies within making the broadband situation in the country better and able to provide a “fast, reliable and guaranteed service” at all times.
According to the federation’s freshest report 9 per cent of businesses had no access to today’s general speeds of up to 24Mbps with a quarter stating that they had to put up with speeds of 2Mbps.
The FSB believes that had the government decided to put more money into the broadband infrastructure, this could potentially bring more rapid…
Geoff Slaughter - 14 December 2011 | comments. Read more
It’s been fun but the time has come to relocate, thought PlusNet announcing that it will take all of its operations to a more centrally-located Sheffield office space.
The move is to celebrate the ISP’s 15th birthday the coming February and is scheduled for next Spring (and to be completed at some point in May 2012).
It has been said that the 53,000 square feet office space that PlusNet has been eyeing up is going to be the grandest office let in town throughout the last five years.
Jamie Ford, Head of…
Geoff Slaughter - 12 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Good news for businesses based in Liverpool as they can get their hands on some truly ultrafast broadband.
The fruit, also known as the FibreNet Project, of the partnership between AIMES Grid Services, Virgin Media Business, Global Crossing and 2020 Liverpool is none other than fibre broadband capable of delivering speeds of 10Gbps. Yes, Gbps.
This has become possible as the firms decided to combine their data centres, national and international connectivity, networks and of course some tech savvy in order to achieve the impressive speeds.
Councillor Malcolm Kennedy was delighted that…
Geoff Slaughter - 23 November 2011 | comments. Read more
Zen Internet sees a very fibre future, which is why the ISP followed BT’s example and announced that it was launching fresh FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) products.
As a quick reminder, FTTP will provide ultrafast speeds of “up to” 100Mbps, with prices reportedly starting at £70.
As the sum suggests, these will be business products, to compare – BT’s home FTTP packages start at £35.
Zen Internet’s Head of Product Management, Andrew Saunders, was quoted as saying:
“We think fibre’s the future. We’re not sure if it’s going to be in three years’ time or…
Geoff Slaughter - 18 November 2011 | comments. Read more
Hull-based internet ISP, KC has recently shared some interesting findings gathered by OnePoll on its behalf – mainly that despite the fact that almost all SMEs (small-to-medium-businesses) stated that IT security was of vast importance to them, a quarter did not practice what they preached as they were spotted working without any form of anti-malware or anti-virus software.
Moreover, it has been revealed that 67 per cent did not have any security apps on their smarties, despite the fact that 35 per cent were hooking up their handset to office…
Edita Lozovska - 17 November 2011 | comments. Read more
