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News Clarke joins the Mirror Group from Virgin Net and has been chosen to oversee the launch of ic24.net, a free Internet access service. Prior to Virgin Net, Clarke spent time at Compaq, Digital, and Hewlett-Packard. [30 Mar 1999]
Virgin Entertainment and Hannaford Bros. Co. Increase Store-Level Productivity and Communications With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network
White Paper Virgin Entertainment Group operates 18 Virgin Megastores in the United States that provide thousands of customers with experiential, interactive shopping through in-store appearances by major entertainment artists, a wide variety of music and DVD... [07 Jun 2006]
HMV and Virgin to do digital battle in days
News The two song shops will offer an unlimited subscription service, with Virgin's starting at £9.99 per month, and both will sell songs only in the Windows Media Audio file format. Both HMV and Virgin have announced they are to open the doors of their... [31 Aug 2005]
Ginger Online chief quits
News Ginger Online runs the Virgin Radio website, as well as the site for the recently axed TFI Friday television show. Ousby set up Virgin Radio's website in March 1996. Virgin Radio was the first in Europe to stream live over the internet. [20 Dec 2000]
BBC iPlayer goes public
News The service is also being developed for television and the BBC is currently working with Virgin Media to launch on the cable service later this year. Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC said the iPlayer underpins... [27 Jun 2007]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News As well as Windows, iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and the Nintendo Wii. Speaking in London today, BBC group controller for Future Media and Technology, Erik Huggers, said: "We’ve learned quite a bit over the... [25 Jun 2008]
Leader: The CD debate
Leader First today, witness Virgin being the latest company to set up an online music store. It will be a good tie-up with its Virgin Mobile services around the world and the company looks better placed than some upstarts, tech players and the likes of... [08 Mar 2004]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Virgin Media did, however, claim that it, rather than BT, was "spearheading" the "super-fast broadband movement", as it had already rolled out a fibre network that would be offering a 50Mbps service to 12 million UK homes by the middle of 2009. [17 Jul 2008]
Virgin Megastores to shake-up music download market
News Adam Thomas, media research manager at analyst firm Informa, told silicon.com: "Virgin is very well placed to offer a download service, as its music assets offer great opportunities for cross-promotion. [28 Feb 2005]
Only CIOs can put a stop to sloppy telecoms
News Nevertheless, the UK saw the launch of its first quad-play service yesterday, as Virgin Mobile, NTL and Telewest officially relaunched under the brand-name Virgin Media. CIOs must get themselves onto the board - or consign their companies to shabby... [09 Feb 2007]
ITU 03 diary - Gates, 3G, holograms and missing phones
Comment You can either say Microsoft will move the market - or once again rip virgin soil from the hands of the little guys. The Finnish pavillion being close to the Media Centre, you understand. Analysts generally welcomed the pairing, though some of the... [14 Oct 2003]
"I'm not working for you!"
Comment To that end Gent may even be able to hire Branson's minions as it seems their work at Virgin is done. Gent's reported pay rises during a period of downturn in the telecoms sector and his own company's resultant poor performance attracted massive... [28 Aug 2002]
So what is convergence anyway?
Comment The business pages of a daily paper will state with authority that convergence is the driving force behind cable company NTL's merger with Virgin Mobile, while the technology supplement writes about the latest converged handset. [07 Dec 2006]
Real CEO: EC ruling could help in $1bn action
News It has also announced a deal with Virgin Radio, one of the biggest stations worldwide over the internet, to broadcast using RealAudio 10. In London this morning to promote European versions of the company's media player software, RealPlayer 10... [07 Apr 2004]
Leader: Are download services the new free ISPs?
Leader Now we're not about to name all the companies doing download offers, though Coca-Cola, HMV and Virgin spring to mind. There were opportunities for those with expertise elsewhere, in this case print media, to use their marketing nous to nab... [23 Jul 2004]
