Transatlantic cable: ancient and modern

In 1866 the first successful telegraph cable was laid across the Atlantic from the UK to Newfoundland in North America.  That means it’s now 150 years old. This wasn’t the first attempt at laying a cable across the Atlantic, the first three attempts were abandoned as...

QuickTime causes GoSlow!

Nearly every day at the moment we get clients whose computers are not behaving themselves and, when we check out the problem, it’s often solved by simply removing an application called QuickTime. Originally QuickTime was developed by Apple as a video streaming...

Eventful connections

If you’re holding an event that usually involves lots of people – and, although most people are used to using their phone signal to get online, it may depend on how good the signal is in the area where your event is taking place – it can mean little or no...