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Google lays out mobile future

News V is for Virgin The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

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

whitepaper Since its inception, Virgin Megastores has been viewed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean as an innovative organization. To maintain that reputation at its Virgin Megastores in the United States, Virgin wanted to replace CD listening posts with...

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

Virgin Retail Saves 8.5 Hours a Week in Each Store With New Stock Solution

whitepaper Virgin Retail is a United Kingdom (U.K.success story. Since the first Virgin record shop opened in 1971, the company has expanded its operations to 105 Virgin Megastores across the U.K.and Ireland. After researching a number of systems on the...

Tags: application servers

[11 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]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News V is for Virgin There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News V is for Virgin According to the report, in-body networks could be implanted in patients to monitor their movements and/or vital health signs, such as blood sugar level, and to send data wirelessly via a home hub or portable monitor to keep doctors...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News V is for Virgin Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth C is for The Cloud D is for dotMobi E is for Email F is for FMC G is for GPS H is for HSDPA

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 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. This is the first time iPlayer has been available on a TV platform and will bring full quality BBC programmes to the...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in

News Virgin Atlantic is working with NIIT Technologies to streamline its Upper Class passengers check-in time from 60 minutes to less than 10 minutes. By supplying their check-in details to the limousine driver on their way to the terminal, Upper Class...

Tags: planes, virgin, heathrow

[29 Apr 2008]

Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi

News V is for Virgin Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to customers when it launches the service across the majority of its UK chain from 1 May 2008. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: wi-fi, coffee republic

[14 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News V is for Virgin Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax Forum Asia 2008 that WiMax's first-mover advantage over the long-term evolution of 3G (LTE) may eventually...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: Virgin Mobile

whitepaper Virgin Mobile is the UK's first, and the world's biggest virtual network operator. What Virgin Mobile wanted to do was to consolidate it all - put it all in one place. They decided to install a storage system because they had loads of storage all...

Tags: storage management, storage area network, hitachi data systems, data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

Virgin Trains passengers to chatter for longer

News Travellers on Virgin Train could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.

Tags: security, vodafone, business traveller, virgin

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News V is for Virgin Gobi, which Qualcomm released in October 2007, is a chipset that allows travellers to connect to both High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Evolution-Data Optimised (EV-DO) networks. Both are types of "super-3G", but are incompatible.

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08

Round-Up Virgle, we were led to understand, is a joint effort between the practical jokers from Mountain View and madcap Virgin boss Richard Branson. The same brands, except with Virgin in place of Starbucks, were the brands most readers would "like to sit...

Tags: microsoft, apple, vista, hmrc

[04 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News V is for Virgin Yahoo! announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more relevant and easier to use with voice-activation technology.

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

Winner: Apple voted brand with biggest impact

News The same brands, except with Virgin in place of Starbucks, were the brands most readers would "like to sit next to at a dinner party". The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world's consumers, while Microsoft and the US nation brand are...

Tags: us, microsoft, apple

[31 Mar 2008]

Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?

News V is for Virgin The mobile broadband market is hotting up with data card sales set to jump four-fold in the next three years as prices come down - possibly threatening the wi-fi hotspot market. The Infonetics Research Mobility: Broadband, Phones...

Tags: data card, wi-fi, mobile broadband

[28 Mar 2008]

High speed TGV trains get online

News V is for Virgin Passengers on select high-speed TGV trains in France travelling eastbound from Paris at speeds of up to 320kmph can enjoy a fledgling wi-fi service for free - but don't expect the free connectivity lunch to last.

Tags: wi-fi, train, satellite, charge

[26 Mar 2008]

In-flight mobile gets Ofcom thumbs up

News V is for Virgin Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth C is for The Cloud D is for dotMobi E is for Email F is for FMC G is for GPS H is for HSDPA

Tags: calls, mobile, ofcom, planes

[26 Mar 2008]

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