The pigeon versus broadband race last week generated a phenomenal level of interest. It must be said this is an illustration of the power of the BBC – although of course the fun nature of the event itself must have helped. The race, which involved near constant media exposure throughout the day, was covered on BBC Radio 2,3,4,5, […]
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I joined twitter 802 days ago on 17th May 2008. Since then as @tref on Twitter I have sent 2,623 tweets, an average of just over three a day. Not too bad for anyone who thinks I spend too long on the site. In June, according to twitter COO Dick Costolo twitter had 190 million users, […]
I know I keep going on about the lack of understanding of technology and the internet amongst the establishment. Another classic faux pas in this space has happened in the Labour Party Manifesto: where they talk about a minimum broadband Universal Service Commitment of 2megabytes per second. Most readers of this blog will be savvy […]
This spring I’m looking to take on a graduate to work in the Network Operations team as part of the 2010 Graduate Training intake. I’ll put together a job spec but in the meantime if anyone knows of an engineering student about to sit his or her finals please point them my way. This will […]
The great and the good of the WiFi hotspot industry descended on London today to meet the Valuation Office Agency. On the agenda was the fact that the VOA wants to slap business rates on WiFi hotspots. The law says that rates are applicable based on the perceived rental value of any WiFi hotspot that […]
I went in to BBC Radio Lincolnshire this morning, as is my occasional wont, this time to talk about email scams. I am not particularly a security expert but I guess being in the ISP game I would get more exposure to this than your average Radio Lincolnshire listener. It was all about phishing emails […]
I spent some of this morning with our marketing team discussing our twitter marketing strategy. This is a very new field and it is interesting to see how people go about getting exposure on the site. For example I get people I’ve never heard of signing up as followers. This prompts me to take a […]
I have mentioned We7.com before when I met CEO Steve Purdham at the Internet Conference and the subject of illegal music downloading via P2P is becoming almost a regular feature. In a rare moment of relaxation (really) I thought I’d revisit the We7 website which I had registered with for research purposes prior to the conference . I’ve got […]
I have mentioned We7.com before when I met CEO Steve Purdham at the Internet Conference and the subject of illegal music downloading via P2P is becoming almost a regular feature. In a rare moment of relaxation (really) I thought I’d revisit the We7 website which I had registered with for research purposes prior to the conference . I’ve got […]
In the news today is a very high profile security flaw in Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer. Hackers have been hijacking websites and inserting code that enables them to steal username and password information of persons browsing using IE. Microsoft made the situation public at the end of last week by which time they had calculated […]
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trefor.net raised it’s pretty little head above the parapet of the world wide web on the 19th May 2008. The site covers many aspects of the communications world from the perspective of people living and working in the internet industry. Particular areas of interest are Network Connectivity, Cloud, Mobile and Unified Communications which are covered […]