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Virgin Megastores Opens Music and Video Vault to Customers With New Digital Kiosk

whitepaper To maintain that reputation at its Virgin Megastores in the United States, Virgin wanted to replace CD listening posts with digital media preview kiosks capable of delivering far more than just music.

Tags: embedded systems

[14 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV service. Malcolm Wall, CEO of content at Virgin Media, added the company is proud to be working with the BBC to lead "this...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News V is for Virgin This means search results will expand from traditional hyperlinks into other media - a search for "New York" could yield subway timetables, for example, or a search for local restaurants could bring up ratings and reviews along with...

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

ITN consortium in frame for Teachers TV

News Programmes can be viewed over Sky, Virgin Media, Tiscali TV or through the service website, www.teachers.tv. A consortium led by ITN is in final negotiations over a £50m, five-year contract from the government to provide on-demand video content to...

Tags: teaching, itn, tv, public sector

[14 Mar 2008]

Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation

News Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo The Texas Advanced Computing Center (Tacc) at the University of Texas will dedicate a Constellation System from Sun on 22 February, said John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun, speaking...

Tags: sun, ibm, supercomputer, chips

[14 Feb 2008]

Why pay more abroad? EU demands mobile roaming cuts

News V is for Virgin EU commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, speaking today at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, said: "What I want to achieve is very simple - that sending a text message or downloading other...

Tags: reding, mobile world congress, roaming, eu

[11 Feb 2008]

Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever

News When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout - set to be available to some nine million homes by the end of the year - is keeping it at the head of the field (its current top speed offering is...

Tags: broadband, speed, fat pipes, connection

[01 Feb 2008]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News Virgin Media has announced a free speed upgrade to 10Mbps for some of its broadband customers. Virgin described this as 'a significant speed advantage' over regular 8Mbps ADSL connections and said the free upgrade will roll out by region from late...

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Virgin Media also told silicon.com it has received no reports of reduced bandwidth due to iPlayer usage. Virgin Media added that download services such as iPlayer are a sign of increasing demand for higher bandwidth speeds and said it will continue...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment V is for Virgin Many foresee faster mobile device media surfing - and more - after 2009 when the new bandwidth is operational. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard...

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636), Pipex (634), TalkTalk (630) and then BT. In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study, the...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of next year, joined...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

RIM makes sweet plans for BlackBerry future

News V is for Virgin Following on from its recent tie-in with Facebook to bring the social networking site to BlackBerrys, Andrew Bocking, director of handheld software at RIM, told silicon.com: "Social networking is an area we see a lot of growth...

Tags: o2, iphone, rim, blackberry

[06 Nov 2007]

Ofcom consults on next generation access

News He also pointed out that cable companies such as Virgin Media, which is currently trialling speeds of up to 50Mbps, already provide FTTC. Ofcom has issued a consultation paper to identify how and when the UK should upgrade its broadband access.

Tags: ngn, bt, broadband, fttc

[27 Sep 2007]

BT drops below half share of fixed-line calls

News Mobile operators all saw their market share remain flat or increase from 2005 to 2006, with the big winners being virtual operators such as Virgin Mobile, which resell other networks' connectivity rather than having their own infrastructure.

Tags: ofcom, voip, mobile, telecoms

[24 Aug 2007]

Virgin signs multimillion pound C&W deal

News Back in May, C&W unveiled a four-year agreement with Virgin Media to become its exclusive unbundled local loop network provider on a wholesale basis until 2011. Virgin Group has signed a three year, multimillion pound deal for Cable & Wireless (C&W...

Tags: wi-fi, vpn, ip

[16 Aug 2007]

Who's afraid of user-generated content?

News Several companies - including the AA, First Direct, Virgin Media and Vodafone - subsequently pulled ads from Facebook, according to various newspaper reports. We don't want to exclude the use of any of the new social media but we do have to have a...

Tags: advertising, social networking, facebook, user-generated content

[06 Aug 2007]

Row over European mobile TV standards

News But industry commentators say other mobile TV platforms such as the Qualcomm-backed MediaFLO and DAB-IP, as used by Virgin Mobile, should not be ignored. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media said Europe needs to...

Tags: qualcomm, nokia, mediaflo, dvb-h

[19 Jul 2007]

Orange and TalkTalk the pits of customer service

News Plusnet topped the broadband rankings, with more than three-quarters (78 per cent) of customers satisfied with its services, followed by AOL, Sky and Virgin Media with 76 per cent customer satisfaction rates apiece.

Tags: fat pipes, provider, uk, fat pipe

[03 Jul 2007]

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