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After the UK High Court ordered the country’s Internet service providers (ISPs) to block their subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay, Virgin Media was the first to comply. They may live to regret the decision, because it has put them in Anonymous' spotlight.
Yesterday, on May 8, Twitter channels utili... |
9 May 2012
03:07 GMT |
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It didn't take too long for the Pirate Bay block to take effect, Virgin Media, one of the larger ISPs in the country, was the first to implement the court-ordered ban. Virgin's four million or so subscribers, trying to reach the Pirate Bay, perhaps to read its blog response to the block, were greeted with a... |
3 May 2012
14:21 GMT |
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UK residents have the chance to win an iPhone 5 (provided that Apple actually launches one) by entering a competition organized by Virgin Media to vote for their favorite short film producer, in what can also give up-and-coming new film directors a leg-up in their career.Announced by means of an email sent to Virgin ... |
23 September 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Virgin Media has notified around 1,500 of its broadband customers that their computers are infected with the notorious SpyEye banking trojan.The action is part of a program the UK ISP announced last autumn which involves monitoring botnet lists maintained by various organizations for their own IPs.In this case, Virgi... |
20 June 2011
12:58 GMT |
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Video-on-demand content seems to be making its way into every living room out there, Virgin Media just launching, in the UK, what it calls to be the next generation entertainment platform that pairs a TiVo together with a Internet broadband connection to offer video-on-demand and web-based programming to its users.Th... |
1 December 2010
08:35 GMT |
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More HTC Desire owners out there have now the possibility to enjoy the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system on their devices, as Virgin Media has just announced the delivery of this solution to its users. According to the company, the new software update was released specifically for the Desire handsets with the Virgi... |
13 November 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Virgin Media UK carrier has leaked on its Twitter account news about a future Android 2.2 Froyo update for two its devices, HTC Desire and HTC Wildfire. The confirmation of the update sounds exactly like this: “HTC Desire and HTC Wildfire - great news, we're expecting to release OTA updates to 2.2 (Froyo) ... |
18 August 2010
12:00 GMT |
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Virgin Media, one of the biggest Internet service providers in UK, plans to start sending warning letters to customers if their computers are infected and are generating botnet-related traffic.The Register reports that Virgin will start scanning lists of compromised hosts maintained by the Shadowserver Foundation and... |
16 August 2010
11:33 GMT |
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Recently, Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the release of a new Android 2.1 handset, the HTC Wildfire, and carriers around the world already jumped on it, it seems. Among them, we can count UK wireless operators Virgin Media and T-Mobile, both of which officially announced plans to get the n... |
19 May 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Virgin Media has recently added the Android-based LG InTouch Max to its offering, and now it announces the launch of more handsets powered by Google's mobile operating system. According to the wireless carrier, the new phones are set to soon become available on its airwaves and should offer users the possibility... |
19 March 2010
04:39 GMT |
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Broadband is rather widespread today in the developed world and most Internet users have access to at least decent speeds. But the definition of broadband is very loose and the fact that what is seen as fast now may become obsolete in a year or two only makes it harder. So, while a new 100 megabits per second servic... |
26 February 2010
09:21 GMT |
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EU has pledged to keep an eye on UK ISP's Virgin Media latest plan to monitor illegal file-sharing traffic on its network following a complaint from human rights organization Privacy International. The European Commission said it would monitor how the ISP deploys the software it would use for deep-packet inspect... |
26 January 2010
12:07 GMT |
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Virgin Media, one of UK's largest broadband providers, is currently trialing deep packet inspection (DPI) technology that can determine what its users are downloading. The company claims that recorded data is anonymized and will be used to draw conclusions about illegal file-sharing in general.The DPI technology... |
21 January 2010
11:42 GMT |
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Virgin Media announced recently the launch of a brand new mobile phone for its users, namely the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone. The new handset has been included in the company's pay-monthly devices offering, and comes as the first BlackBerry phone to be included in Virgin Media's offering for its UK cu... |
3 December 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Virgin Media, UK's first quad-play provider of broadband, TV, phone and mobile services, and Universal Music have announced today that they plan on releasing into the wild a new digital music service that aims at changing the way UK consumers buy and listen to music. According to Virgin Media, its broadband cust... |
16 June 2009
10:41 GMT |
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British Internet broadband provider Virgin Media has announced a deal with the Universal Music Group, one of the biggest record companies in the world, which involves launching an unlimited music download service. Virgin Media customers will be able to download any song or album in the Universal catalog for an addit... |
16 June 2009
04:11 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom there are thousands and thousands of people who have broadband Internet access and share music online. This is not exactly legal, nor is it something the BPI agrees with. The British music industry is taking charge of the situation and the first step it is going to take is to send illegal music... |
3 July 2008
03:50 GMT |
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In case you're a Virgin Media customer and you also have a Ntlworld account, you may receive a spam message which asks you to provide your account ID and password, in order to avoid a potential removal from the database. This new spam campaign was first reported by Cable Forum after a Virgin Media user received... |
13 December 2007
06:03 GMT |
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Virgin Media has announced that it will be sponsoring the eighth series of Channel4's reality show Big Brother, after mobile operator Orange chose not to back up the controversial program. Just last week, Orange voted on whether it should take the place of Carphone Warehouse in sponsoring Big Brother or not. The... |
22 March 2007
10:40 GMT |
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