When I visit a website and there are no contact details that place the company in a geographical area or names of company members I am always immediately suspicious of the legitimacy of the business. Transparency is something that has always split the web between those who are open and those who seem guarded.
There are [...]

On one hand, we have Bill Gates, talking with abandon about TV on the Internet and how we’ll look back in five years and laugh at what we once had. On the other, a new report provides a wary view of TV’s future and unsurprisingly comes from a traditional broadcasting perspective.
Video online has a huge [...]

In 2005, UKFast gained a nomination for it’s hosting services from the ISPA. Against companies like Mistral and Tiscali, UKFast came out the winner despite being dwarfed by such international competition.
It’s fair to say that the last two years have seen an impressive growth of more specialised ISPs dealing in the hosting market and when [...]

I got an email this morning from eBay’s Head of Trust and Safety. It’s a job title that you don’t often come across. The role might seem odd to some but it doesn’t surprise me at all.
Just today a new report is published about UK Internet user concerns, which says that four in ten of [...]

There’s an interesting piece about UK companies attracting investment in 2006 that provides an insight into some big developments coming online this year.
Paul Fisher provides a great list of all the venture capital ploughed into European companies last year. I’ve concentrated on the UK investment and it seems to present a varied mix of sectors [...]

All across the news today are reports about spam levels. Image spam is one of the biggest problems in everyone’s inbox but it’s not just email that delivers spam. Chris Richardson believes that search results spam is a frontier on which Google must improve this year, especially within its blog search.
I have also noticed through [...]

Browser usage statistics for 2006, provided by Net Applications show that Mozilla has once again decreased the margin between IE and Firefox. Two years ago Microsoft was providing the web interface for 90 per cent of Internet users. Now more and more people are moving over to the world’s second favourite browser with Firefox [...]

One High Street PLC that has announced its trading figures for the latter part of 2006 is Next. An overall increase, period on period, of 2.8% is attributed to strong sales through Next Directory and www.next.co.uk.
I was therefore interested but not surprised to learn that, according to Hitwise, words related to the Next brand accounted [...]

Music Zone announced its file for administration this week and it’s very telling that it never sold online to compliment a burgeoning high street presence? As a relatively new retailer in the entertainments sector it’s hard to understand why e-commerce was never part of the strategy.
Music Zone was unlikely to sustain competition on a large [...]

At UKFast we’ve been running awards for the businesses on our network for a number of years now and the last group really has set a standard.
Not only did we have 100% more entries in 2006 but the judges found it much harder to choose the final winners due to the quality of the applicants.
What [...]