Interview With Mark Jackson Of ISPreview
Discovering a suitable ISP can more often than not be a daunting prospect, learning who to trust and who to approach with caution is sometimes a boring yet imperative chore. Commonly you will read a host of reviews with the same ratio: three good, one bad. Suddenly you’re back to square one, indecisive, perplexed and […]
ICUK Nürburgring 24hr Race Sponsorship
ICUK has a need for speed, and this goes way beyond providing customers with super fast broadband connections, speedy web hosting packages and rapid customer service response times. It’s therefore an immense pleasure to announce our involvement in one of the greatest and most unforgiving car races on earth, the Nürburgring 24hr, 2013. Located around […]
5 Tech Twitter Accounts We Recommend!
Twitter serves as a great resource for any industry news and here at ICUK we like to keep in the know! Whilst we haven’t been the most prolific tweeters we are trying to more talkative, so be sure you follow us @icuknet Tweeting serves as a powerful communication tool and generates a great scope of […]
ICUK’s Top 10 iPhone App Picks
The benefits of owning an Apple iPhone are endless! The most recent device, the iPhone 5 is an evolution of its sister handset, the 1st gen released back in June, 2007. Apple are now 6 handsets deep and the iPhone range just gets better and better (some may disagree). It’s still hard to forget the importance […]
Website Of The Month [May 2013 | WorkFlowy.com]
Our brand new website of the month feature sees the ICUK team pick a website we admire or feel that by using it your life will be transformed!* This month’s lucky winner is workflowy.com, a complete text based tool for making and recording notes that will help keep even the scattiest of individuals organised. There […]
5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Consider Adopting A Leased Line
Are you a business user and fed up of browsing the web at snails pace during peak times? Tired of slow upload / download speeds? Have you experienced significant downtime with your ADSL provider that left staff unable to work? If so, an ICUK leased line might just be the broadband service for you! Leased lines […]
ICUK Convergence Summit North 2013 Review
A massive thank-you to everyone who visited our stand at the Convergence Summit North last week. I’m sure you all agree that the two day event in Manchester was a fantastic opportunity which allowed us to see some familiar faces and feed prospective resellers with the knowledge and reasons behind why they should become a […]
Future Domain Extensions – .WALES & .CYMRU
Many countries and major cities alike currently have their own geo-TLDs and now with the support of Nominet, Wales hopes to join this party. The .WALES and .CYMRU domain extensions are on the horizon and will undoubtedly be hugely popular. Years of lobbying and various failed bids saw Nominet take control of the shackles and […]
Convergence Summit North 2013 Update & Competition Details
ICUK has once again embarked on an exciting journey since our last Convergence in the South at Sandown Park back in October 2012. The North Convergence Summit is therefore another great prospect for us to showcase, discuss and explain our exciting range of services, developing platforms and also introduce ourselves to prospective resellers in the […]
Introducing Croydon Tech City
Croydon Tech City is a local initiative that is a breath of fresh air to the local community and industry alike. The movement sets out to help local people turn bright ideas into reality, with the help from some of Croydon’s finest tech professionals who volunteer. Our very own Paul Barnett (ICUK Director) serves as […]
DAY 14: ICUK Invoicing Platform Released
It’s finally here! After 6 months of development our invoicing platform is available as a bolt-on for all ICUK resellers. We truly hope that you will use this platform as it has the potential to significantly improve your billing processes. Summary In creating this platform for our resellers we set ourselves clear goals: SIMPLIFIED BILLING […]
DAY 13: Bulk Spam White & Black Lists
We’ve a new feature for our spam filtering customers today. Bulk Uploads for Spam White & Black Lists This facility is available to all customers who use our spam filter, whether this be via a hosting plan or as the external filter. Adding entries to the white and black lists has always been a process […]
DAY 12: CPS Outbound Call Barring
On the 12th day of our development release marathon we have a new feature for telecom resellers. Outbound Call Barring Numbers –> Phone Numbers –> Edit Number –> Outbound Call Barring Up until now any changes to call barring would have been made manually by ourselves with our CPS carriers. This latest feature allows you […]
DAY 11: Hosting, Domains and Broadband Tariff Management
In preparation for the invoicing platform it is important that we give you the ability to set prices and specifications for hosting, domains and broadband, not just the telecom services that make use of it. Hosting, Domain and Broadband Tariffs Customers –> Tariffs For those resellers who don’t use or have access to the telecom […]
DAY 10: Removal of SMS Phone Book Restrictions
Any customer who has had to send out large blasts of SMS messages will appreciate that the size restriction on the phone books can be a headache. Normally it meant having to separate your lists into multiple phone books, and similarly when it comes to sending you would have to select one phone book at […]
DAY 9: Fast Track Broadband Activations
Eagle-eyed resellers may have spotted that this feature has been in the control panel a little while. We simply haven’t announced it. Fast Track Broadband Activations This feature is available on all BT Wholesale based ADSL and FTTC products for new activations. When placing the order a tick box is available allowing you to select […]
DAY 8: MySQL Statistics
By far the most popular database platform around the world, and hosted by us, is MySQL. This latest development will provide all developers and site owners a valuable insight. MySQL Statistics Accounts –> Edit Account –> MySQL Statistics There is a new icon located in the MySQL section when editing an account. The statistics can […]
DAY 7 – 3D Control Panel & VoIP Tariff Calculator
This was scheduled for release yesterday (1st April) but owing to the UK bank holiday we figured it was safer to release with the full team here to assist with any enquiries. 3D Control Panel – A World First! At ICUK we are more than aware of how everything seems to be going ’3D’ now […]
DAY 6: CPS Tariff Calculator Enhancements
On the 6th day of the development release schedule ICUK announced to me… CPS Tariff Calculator Enhancements Numbers –> Number Tools –> CPS Tariff Calculator Previously our CPS quote comparison tool presented the figures nicely to you on-screen and with the option to save in CSV format. Neither were particularly inspiring if you wanted to […]
DAY 5: PDF Functions
Due to popular demand we are starting to add more PDF functions into the control panel. We appreciate that it can often be easier to reference or send a PDF document. The first two pages to benefit from this are: PDF Invoices Admin –> Invoices On the invoices page within the control panel each invoice […]