Virgin Media plan to exit corporate telecoms

August 7, 2008

Virgin Media has signaled their plans to exit the corporate telecoms market. Chief executive Neil Berkett wants to concentrate on encouraging more cable TV and broadband customers to join. If sold the division, which hooks small businesses up to local authority ...

HP, Intel and Yahoo! team up for cloud project

August 1, 2008

Hardware company HP is teaming up with chip manufacturers and internet firm Yahoo! to create research centres for cloud computing. Cloud computing gives online storage and offers a range of new services. To begin with six data centres will be made available ...

Internet providers in music pirates deal

July 24, 2008

A plan has been made between the music industry and six of the UK's biggest internet service providers (ISP's) to combat piracy online. Letters will be sent to hundreds of internet users who are suspected of illegally sharing music, in the ...

BT’s super-fast broadband plans

July 15, 2008

BT, the UK telecoms provider, have announced plans to have "super fast" broadband in as many as 10 million homes by 2012. BT are proposing a £ 1.5 billion investment in the fibre-optic based technology, which would provide top internet speeds ...

Sainsburys website glitch

July 11, 2008

Giant supermarket chain Sainsburys had to suspend its online store on Thursday because of a problem with its internet service provider. The site, which is now back in working order, was closed after glitches with Sainsburys internet services provider Cable & ...

Google forced to hand over records of YouTube users

July 5, 2008

A ruling by a US court has ordered Google, who owns YouTube, to hand over details of what video's are being watched, IP addresses and usernames, to Viacom which want the information to prove that the site is showing thousands ...

Game Group sales rise as new games and consoles are released

July 4, 2008

Consumers seem to be putting money fears to one side and are continuing to buy computer games and consoles. As other traditional retailers on the high street are feeling the squeeze of economic problems, Game Group said today that they are ...

Virgin Media in trouble over broadband speeds

July 2, 2008

BT has made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service. BT has made the complaint over Virgin Media's "Hate to Wait" advertisement campaign which ran in the national media. The campaign showed ...

Sony hope for growth in emerging markets

June 28, 2008

Sony are hoping that plans to expand into emerging markets will revive their fortunes. This large growth push follows several years of job cuts. The Japanese electronics firm has set out plans to regain its lead in the TV market, lower ...

Website naming rules may change

June 26, 2008

The rules which govern domain naming could be changed if the proposals to relax the rules go through. At the moment websites can only use certain suffixes at the end of internet addresses, such as ".com", ".co.uk" or ".org". The regulator of ...

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