With the regular security updates released by Microsoft to patch their software, consumers could be excused for thinking that this is due to product faults or flaws. However, the savvier of us will be aware that there are many out there who seek to exploit software code for financial gain or through malicious intent.
This [...]

This is a great question – it throws all sorts of variables in to the mix and is one of those questions which can torment even the most savvy of us.
Whether it’s what processor, which service provider or what operating system – there is a debate to be had. Just because of where you might [...]

Earlier this week we held a very illuminating round table discussion on the travel industry online at UKFast’s offices in City Tower Manchester.
Bringing in experts from around the UK, we had:
Joel Brandon Bravo, UK MD of TravelZoo
Richard Nash, business director at CSI Media
James Brooke, MD of Rooster
Brian Povey, tourism project manager, Mersey Partnership
Lawrence [...]

Neil Lathwood, UKFast’s IT Director and I visited Ashton-on-Mersey School earlier this week to give a helping hand on their ICT taster day. Basically, the plan was to get this group of 35 14-15 year olds hooked on the idea of doing the Level 2 ICT Diploma in years 10 and 11.
After brief introductions [...]

Something I’ve never blogged on but often take advantage of are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides.

Mohammed Ali was famous for the ‘power of intention.’ He would psyche out an opponent by telling them that they were going to get knocked out in the third round.  He would be concentrating on meeting this goal and importantly, so would his opponent.
So, having spent the last 10 years at UKFast speeding up the internet and [...]

Rupert Murdoch would have us all believe that “paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don’t pay for it are doing something wrong.” (BBC article). And he’s actually got a level of support behind him…from the traditional print media that is.
Johnson Press, the UK’s largest regional [...]

Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

I cant advise this enough.  This is a great OS.  The Vista OS was good in my opinion and this is a better more streamlined version.  People state that Vista was buggy and sluggish – depends what you did with it and what hardware you ran it on.  Windows 7 does strip out this complication [...]