UKFast is to take over as the main sponsor of the Sale Sharks from the start of next season. It is the first time we have been in the top sponsorship seat at the club although we have been an official supporter for almost a decade now. The agreement is a historic one, involving a [...]

Today the Internet is awash with news, article, links and blogs about the new Government report on Britain’s digital future. When reading through the various online entries on the subject it is striking just how many different industries this report impacts on. ISPs, online retailers, media, advertising, newspapers, the list goes on. And all seem [...]

Latest national newspaper circulation figures coupled with news of Exchange & Mart’s decision to drop its print version are further indications that online media are usurping the territory previously held by traditional print forms. Reports this week have revealed that classified car magazine Exchange & Mart has taken the momentous decision to completely exit the [...]

We were talking about how some of the national newspapers used pay-per-click tactics to appear on searches for Pavarotti in the days following his death. One paper in particular seems to be using this strategy on a weekly basis. Lawrence Jones has an insightful blog about Anita Roddick and The Telegraph, which is one of [...]

Yesterday I attended a seminar session in Manchester called Meet the Northern Correspondents, which added to the newspapers’ online debate. The two speakers were Helen Carter of The Guardian and James Wilson of the FT. Helen revealed that some departments have a ‘Web First’ policy meaning that their stories appear on the web and then [...]

It’s very rare to type a phrase into Google Suggest and be told that there are only 205 results. But such is the case for “ransomware.” Even more astonishing is that ransomware was brought to my attention by the Manchester Evening News today. My daily browse of BBC Online, The Register and ZDNet.com did not [...]