Virgin Mobile is offering a prepaid smartphone plan with no data for $20 per month
Virgin announced new smartphone plans on Monday, including a $20 per month option that restricts data to Wi-Fi only.
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To Bitcoin and beyond: Virgin Galactic accepts virtual currency for space flight
A woman from Hawaii paid for her upcoming trip to space using Bitcoin. We can now add Sir Richard Branson as the latest Bitcoin believer.
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le…
Virgin's TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo…
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Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability…
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid…
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BT Takes Virgin's Green As TV Exec For YouView Push
Virgin Media’s TV and online commercial executive director Alex Green is defecting to BT (NYSE: BT) to become TV commercial and product dire…
Virgin Wrings More Money From Customers
“Appetite for next-generation services is growing faster than we anticipated,” Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett told City analysts…
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Virgin’s iPad Mag Project Reboots On Newsstand Under New Ownership
The co-creators of the Virgin-branded iPad magazine Project are merging it with an iPad newsstand service, Other Edition, creating a new com…
Virgin Media Close To Deal To Pave Way For Digital Music Service
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is close to announcing a deal with Spotify and four record companies to launch a new digital music service – mor…
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TiVo Earnings Soar After Patent Settlement
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) had a great quarter-no surprise, since the numbers include a big chunk of the $500 million patent settlement it won from D…
Google Buys PushLife For $25 Million: A Piece In Its Mobile Music Strategy?
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have w…
‘No Walled Gardens’: Virgin Media Sees TiVo As Cross-Platform Magic Glue
UK cable telco Virgin Media’s average customer take climbed to a record £47.51 ($76.61) per month in Q4 – but that could boom when it launc…
‘Pernicious Gremlins’ Delayed Issue #2 Of Virgin’s iPad-Only Mag, Now Out
I was literally in the middle of writing about Project’s delayed second issue when I had to reload the page and it was for sale. Oddly, the…
@ CES: Tivo’s Tom Rogers Sizes Up Cable And Competition
As CES has confirmed, the world has woken up to the potential of over-the-top TV. To which Tivo CEO Tom Rogers might say, what took everyone…
The Morning Lowdown 12.06.10
» AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking at a major restructuring that could include the jettisoning of its revenue-generating dial-up busine…
Interview: Virgin Media’s Cindy Rose On The Connected-TV Explosion
“2011 is going to be pretty transformative for the UK television landscape,” says Virgin Media’s director of digital entertainment Cindy Ros…
Virgin Media Puts Its Connected-TV Future in TiVo’s Hands
UK cable operator Virgin Media’s connected-TV future now rests firmly in the hands of TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), which is re-entering Britain after…
Virgin’s iPad-Only Magazine Now Available on the App Store
The new iPad-only publication Project from Virgin has arrived, and is currently available for download from the App Store. Users get a very limited preview of the international culture, business and travel magazine free, and can then buy the first issue for $2.99.
Video: Virgin’s iPad Mag ‘Project’ Gets Animated, Coming Tuesday
Word reaches us that Virgin’s virgin iPad-only magazine is Christened “Project” and is due to hit the tablet’s iTunes Store at this link wit…
Virgin Media Revenue Rises As It Rolls Out Super Fast Broadband
Virgin Media’s revenue increased 6.4% year on year in the third quarter to £978m, as it announced it would roll out superfast 100Mb broadba…
Virgin Launches A Mobile Music Store, But The Big One Is M.I.A.
It’s now 14 months since Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) told the world it would launch a service offering unlimited music downloads, minus copy p…
The Morning Lowdown 07.30.10
» The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) is desperate to unload Newsweek magazine — but not desperate enough sell to Avenue Capital…
Virgin Media Posts Record Growth, TiVo Box Coming Q4
By Mark Sweney: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has added a net total of 9,100 new households to its cable subscription base in the three months t…
Nevermind Ducts, Virgin Media’s Using Electricity Poles To Extend Footprint
Of all the ideas people have had over the years for plugging the rural broadband divide (WiFi, WiMax, government subsidies), not many people…
VMtv Sale: Virgin Gets Sky VOD, Interactive Sports, Online Carriage
Let bygones be bygones…
After several years of animosity, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying the wholly-owned channels from VMtv, Virgin Media’s…
Broadband Content Bits: Eurosport, Virgin Karaoke, Legal P2P
— Virgin karaoke: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is augmenting its cable TV VOD service with The Karaoke Channel, a space where viewers can call…
Virgin Media Posts Record Sign-Ups, 100 Mbps Coming This Year
Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) grew its customer base and income in all four of its consumer segments during Q1, making it a recor…
Broadband Content Bits: Video Views, Virgin Media Movies, STV Local
— Video views: Monthly UK online views jumped 37 percent from last year to 5.5 billion in February, comScore says, with BBC, ITV (LSE: IT…
NetPlayTV Takes Over VMtv’s Challenge Jackpot
Interactive telly game maker NetPlayTV is buying Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) Television out of the 9.9 percent share option it granted it last…
Virgin Revs Up As Broadband Moves To 100Mbps Fast Lane
Fibre-optic broadband is still Virgin Media’s trump card. October-to-December internet sign-ups beat analyst expectations, helping group rev…
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Media, Liberty, Scottish Online Newspaper, GamesIndustry.biz
— Virgin Media: Regulators at the European Commission say they will “closely monitor” Virgin Media’s plans to monitor traffic on its networ…
Virgin Media Issuing $1 Billion In Bonds To Refinance Fibre Debt
After laying down its costly cable broadband network upgrade, Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media is going to the capital markets for financing for…
Seesaw Managing Editor; Virgin Appoints COO; Government’s IP Office Chooses CEO
— Seesaw: The forthcoming IPTV VOD service from Arqiva has appointed former Babelgum mobile editor Dan Watt-Smith as its managing editor, a…
Virgin Media Appoints VOD TV Chief; Skype Marketer; Specific Media SVP
— Virgin VOD: Virgin Media’s has hired Chellomedia exec Aleks Habdank as director of its VOD TV service. He was been at Chello since 2002 a…
Virgin Media Installing Piracy Monitoring Technology
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is to trial software to measure the extent of illegal file-sharing among its customers, as part of its music subsc…
TiVo Re-Entering UK With Co-Branded Virgin Media Box In 2010
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is tapping TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) to develop the middleware and interface for its forthcoming line of “television and b…
Corrected: Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett Joins Guardian Media Group Board
Guardian Media Group has has appointed Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett as a non-executive director, to give its board some extra…
Virgin’s Broadband Bounces Back, VOD More Popular Than Ever
Virgin Media’s broadband sign-ups bounced back up this summer after a dismal spring – but they’re still riding well below last year’s levels…
Industry Moves: eBay-Google; Virgin Media; MEN Media; UKOM
— eBay-Google: Alex von Schirmeister, the head of eBay’s French business, has been promoted to European marketing director based in Zurich.…
Absolute’s New Digital Lab Cues Up User-Programmed DAB Station
Absolute Radio, which always had a strong internet track record as Virgin Radio, may have found its online fire again. It’s devised an exper…
VMtv’s Living TV Launches Web TV Widget
VMtv’s celebrity and lifestyle channel Living TV is expanding its online footprint with a new ad-funded VOD portal hosting short-form clips…
Virgin Media Cleared For Secondary London Share Listing
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will this week start trading shares on the London Stock Exchange, completing a longstanding aim to complement its…
Broadband Content Bits: Arqiva’s VOD Platform; Virgin Media Hires Red Bee; X Factor-Sainsbury’s
— Arqiva: The radio mast firm’s reincarnation of the project codenamed Kangaroo will still have the consumer name SeeSaw, as originally int…
Virgin Media Signs Three-Screen Disney Content Deal
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is taking its cue straight from Orange France’s playbook by signing a content deal with Disney (NYSE: DIS) coverin…
Industry Moves: Disney's Euro Interactive Chief Heading To Virgin Media
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has poached Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Internet Group
Virgin Broadband Additions Down 4.6 Percent, Plans ‘Three-Screen’ Mobile TV
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) added just 5,100 new broadband customers between April and June on a net basis – down from 54,600 in the same peri…
Virgin Looking At Playboy — But Will Branson Buy?
While a number of PE firms have reportedly balked at Playboy (NYSE: PLA) Enterprises’ $300 million asking price, actual billionaire playboy…
Industry Moves: Virgin Media CFO: Isobar-Aegis Media; BBC Newsroom
— Virgin Media: Citing family health reasons, Virgin Media’s chief financial officer Jerry Elliot will step down from the company on May 31…
Earnings: Virgin Plans Web-TV As Broadband Sign-Ups Plateau
Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED), in its earnings for the first three months of the year, hailed higher average revenue per customer…
Broadband Content Bits: On Demand Group; Smartclip; Reuters Health Videos; Blinx’s Green Videos
— On Demand Group: The technology provider for Virgin Media’s VOD TV service, On Demand Group, has extended its contract with the telco for…
Virgin Starts Pitching Pre-Roll Ads On Cable VOD
Given the success of Virgin Media’s VOD effort, it would be criminal if Neil Berkett’s cable operator didn’t try and leverage it as a revenu…
Corrected: Virgin Grabs 9.9 Percent Share Option In TV Gamer NetPlay
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has bought taken a 9.9 percent share option stake in AIM-listed interactive gaming company NetPlay TV as part of a…
Industry Moves: Virgin Adds Orange’s Wheeler As First Music Head
Orange’s music head Richard Wheeler is jumping over to the same role at Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED), which is trying to launch an innovative u…
Europe Round-Up: VMtv Sells Shopping Channels; Mecom Debt Extension; Vodafone IPTV; Amazon Germany
— Virgin Media: The telco has sold its shopping channel business Sit-Up TV to Munich-based investor Aurelius. Terms were not disclosed. Lau…
VMtv Sell-off Looks More Likely As CEO Wall Exits
The speculation has rolled on for months that Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will try to sell its content-making VMtv unit, but it looks increasi…
Ofcom Supports High-Speed Broadband Networks; No Word On Public Investment
The UK’s hesitant march toward next-gen broadband is given some impetus by a promise from media regulator Ofcom to “support rapid and widesp…
Isle Of Man Considers Playlouder For Its Legal P2P Music Nirvana
After Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) aborted plans to launch a legal P2P music service powered by Playlouder MSP, the technology vendor’s offerin…
Updated: Virgin Broadband Growth Slows, Still Fancies Subscription Music
Broadband sign-ups have slowed markedly for Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) in the last year as the market becomes saturated . Whilst the provider…
Branson, MacKenzie Plotting Virgin Rebirth For Exiled Radio Station
Last week, Virgin Radio International told us the Indian owners of its Absolute Radio replacement are “out of their depth” in the UK. Now it…
Interview: Virgin Radio President Grace Says New Owners ‘Out Of Their Depth’ In UK Market
In May 2008, in one of the biggest acquisition of an overseas property by an Indian media company, TIML Golden Square Ltd, a wholly owned su…
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Media-Setanta; PunditIt.com; BrandRepublic.com
— Virgin Media: Football highlights from Setanta are set to be shown on Virgin Media’s VOD TV service, making the Irish broadcaster’s Premi…
Earnings: Virgin Media To Pay Sky Up To £38 Million In Channels Deal; Q3 Revenues and Profits Down
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will pay up to £38 million a year to show BSkyB
Virgin In-Flight V:Port Crashes After Reading Embarrassing Story About Itself
Virgin Atlantic’s V:Port is widely recognised as one of aviation’s finest in-flight entertainment systems, an award-winning exemplar for d…
Sports Video For News Sites: Which Rights Are Right?
Newspapers angry at increasingly stringent rules governing online sports reporting should stop griping and pay for the privilege, says one d…
Industry Moves: Virgin Media Grabs Channel4.com Ed Eames For Portal Director
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has taken aboard Channel4.com’s editor Dominic Eames to fill the new editorial director role for its languishing w…
Updated: Virgin Media Asks To Defer Debt Payments To 2012
Update: Mirror.co.uk reports that up to 1,000 jobs could be axed at Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) and Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) Newcastle Jour…
Virgin Media Adds Ads To Growing VOD Service
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Virgin Media Hails VOD Rise, But Watch The Numbers
Not that it doesn’t do this in its regular earnings reports anyway, but Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) today put out a release trumpeting a big i…
@ Communacopia: Virgin CEO Berkett: ‘No Way’ Are We Turning Off Our Customers; Issue ‘Negligible’
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett adamantly rejected the idea of unplugging customers over anything to do with piracy. Berkett addr…
Virgin, Perform Take Sports Highlights To Publishers With Video Widget
Online sports video distributor Perform says it has signed up ITV (LSE: ITV) Sport, News International, Telegraph.co.uk, Guardian.co.uk, Da…
Virgin Comics Serializes Properties On Rediff; Digital Comics; Ties Up With Grant Morrison
Virgin comics has serialized its comic and graphic novel series including Shekhar Kapur’s Devi, Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper and Deepak Chopra’s…
Earnings: Virgin Preps 50Mbps Cable Broadband, Mobile Dongles
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will begin offering 50Mbps broadband in the second half of the year and mobile broadband dongles in Q4. Virgin is…
Masdar, Virgin Fund Buy-Out of Petroleum Waste Recycling Co
Investors are increasingly placing their funds in large waste recycling operations. Last month, it was Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures investing $34.5…
Virgin, BPI Send Users Piracy Letters In ‘Education Campaign’
Starting next week, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) will begin sending letters to customers whose IP a…
Earnings: Virgin Media Hikes Prices To Improve Results
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will increase TV, phone and bundle prices from June 1 to turn around falling earnings. Revenue fell from £1.021 b…
Virgin Volunteers For BPI Music Measures, Pre-Empting Legislation
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is likely to start threatening its broadband customers who illegally share music with disconnection. Speaking to p…
Virgin Media Still Targeted For Acquisition: Report
Another Sunday paper, another unattributed report. The Observer says it’s seen “Project Coaxial” – an awkwardly-named private document indic…
DoT May Consider Allowing MVNOs; Virgin Gets 500 Subs In Two Days
The Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura has said that that they’re not going to vet the Virgin Mobile=Tata Teleservices deal – they’ve only…
Industry Moves: Virgin Media Makes Berkett Permanent CEO; CFO Kerrest Leaving In April
Broadband operator Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) said in a filing that interim CEO Neil Berkett is now the official CEO. Berkett was named to th…
Does Virgin Mobile Have An MVNO License In India?
While we’re still waiting for Richard Branson’s proposed return to India for the formal announcement of their mobile venture in the country,…
Earnings: Virgin VOD Gathers Steam; £163.2 Million Q4 Loss
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) posted a £163.2 million net loss in the three months to December 31 – attributed to lower cashflow and higher sta…
Virgin Media Folds Siren Female Property In To LivingTV
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is expected to shutter its little-known Siren women’s portal and fold the content in to its LivingTV website. Medi…
BT, TalkTalk, And Virgin Media Sign With Phorm; Orange Ad Network Regroups
Three ISPs BT (NYSE: BT), TalkTalk and Virgin Media
Gemstar Sues Virgin Media For Breaching Patent
Los Angeles-based Gemstar-TV Guide, which produces software to provide interactive programme guides (IPGs) for televisions, video recorders,…
Virgin Group Eyes Indian Media Space; To Announce Mobile Venture Next Month
The Virgin Group’s entry into the Indian Telecom market is expected to be announced next month, reportedly a joint venture with Tata Teleser…
UK VOD Service FilmFlex Bought By Sony Pictures and Disney
FilmFlex, the cable movies VOD service in UK, has been bought by Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television and Walt Disney…the two studios alre…
Matt Miller and the HTC Touch Dual
There is no doubt the Touch Dual, the successor to the HTC Touch, is a vast improvement over the original. The hardware…
Virgin Content Chief Says TV VOD Service More Popular Than Five
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Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Ad Merger, BBC Redesign
– Virgin Media: The TV/broadband/telco provider is merging its online and interactive TV ad sales units – with 12 and 86 people respectively…
Virgin Media Scales Back IPTV Plans; Maybe 2009
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has shelved plans for it nationwide IPTV service, at least until 2009, the company announced today. As recently as…
Broadband Content Bits: Hulu UK, Warner VOD, Virgin Web Links
– Hulu: Could the NBC/News Corp online TV JV be looking for a UK launch? Media Week pieces together disparate fragments to suggest “yes”. Sa…
Earnings: Virgin Media Turns A Corner – Q3 Broadband Growth Helps Slow Defections
After a torrid year in which it lost many customers to BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and others, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) turned a corner in most areas…
Virgin Media Ups Content On Portal
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has launched three new services in a bid to position itself as a major online content portal. It will offer shows…
Virgin Media Closes Trouble Homegrown, Consolidates UGC Video
Virgin Media Television (formerly Flextech) is closing Trouble Homegrown, the user-generated content website allied with its Trouble youth T…
Virgin Digital Closes Music Service in UK; Follows U.S. Close
Virgin Digital, the ill-fated online music service from Virgin Music, is also closing its store in UK. This follows a similar closure in U.S…
Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer HDTV Questions; Virgin 50Mbps Broadband; BBC Interactive Radio
— More controversy may be swirling around the BBC’s iPlayer. Today Ofcom questioned whether the cost of offering HDTV programming over the…
Virgin Radio, Virgin Media Sit And Wait Whilst Each Lacks A Leader
What’s in a name? Not a chief exec, that’s for sure.
– Virgin Media: Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has appointed head hunters to find a replac…
Virgin Comics' Ramayana 3392 AD To Be Made Into A Game By Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has acquired rights for a videogame based on “Ramayan 3392 AD” from Virgin Comics, a company started by Deep…
The VoIP Yawn
Anders.com: “The VoIP market is all about features and handy integration rather than how much it’s going to cost to call someone.…
