Tag archive: Virgin

The four largest Internet service providers in the UK will soon allow customers to block all pornography, or to purposefully choose to see the sexually explicit material, reports the Guardian. The controversial move is part of the government's attempts to cut down on Internet pornography. UK Prime Minister David Cameron will announce the new guidelines during meetings with the Mother's Union, which has launched a mission earlier… Read More

Back in 2009, online music market BlueBeat made headlines by offering Beatles songs for sale for prices as low as $0.25 a track—long before the Beatles finally succumbed to the lure of online music sales and let their music be sold via Apple's iTunes. A court order (followed by an injunction) took Beatles music off BlueBeat in short order, but the record labels concerned over BlueBeat's activities—EMI, Capital, and… Read More

Many a broadband customer has been excited to pay extra money and upgrade their service to new high-bandwidth technologies that promise they'll be able to download movies and music in just seconds. However, a nearly equal number of broadband customers have also been dismayed when, once everything is hooked up, they rarely seem to get anywhere near the amount of bandwidth their ISPs claim to be selling them. Now the UK's… Read More

Virgin is holding a competition for its iPad-exclusive publication, Project, and calling designers to create a new cover for the recently launched magazine. A scavenger hunt was held in New York and San Francisco earlier this week to find USB drives containing the contest guidelines. But if you couldn’t make it out to frantically comb the city for the flashdrives, Mashable has had the instructions come into its possession and is sharing them… Read More

As Virgin’s iPad-only magazine launches and the media waits for the possibly delayed News Corp publication, there’s still a considerable amount of tension between the App Store and publishers when it comes to subscriptions. The news about the possible arrival of subscriptions through iTunes has been building since the announcement of the The Daily. But multiple sources are reporting that any possible agreements between Apple and publishers have… Read More

Richard Branson's Virgin has launched the inaugural issue of its magazine designed to be read on Apple's iPad. The magazine, dubbed simply Project, is currently on sale in the Apple App Store for $2.99 for issue number one. Project will focus on entertainment, design, technology, and entrepreneurs. The magazine plans to have a new issue launched monthly, but with new content constantly being added throughout each month. Engadget has… Read More

News Corp and Apple are rumored to be making a joint announcement on December 9, reportedly concerning the imminent arrival of the iPad only magazine The Daily. Looks like they’ve been beat to the punch by Virgin, which will launch Project, a magazine exclusively available for iPad, tonight. Initial reports pegged Virgin founder Richard Branson’s Project as a light, browse-worthy, in-flight magazine – a logical conclusion for the Virgin Airways… Read More

Fresh off its first successful solo space flight, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic airline has completed the runway to its first commercial spaceport. “Spaceport America,” in Upham, New Mexico, is now operational. The port includes a two-mile long runway with a thickness of 42 inches, or 3.5 feet. It's built to support any form of spacecraft currently in existence–a short compatibility list. Virgin CEO Richard… Read More

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has achieved another milestone on its race to become the first commercial spaceflight operator on the planet: its VSS Enterprise spaceship—yes, named for that Enterprise—has completed its first test flight, latched to the underside of a Scaled Composites White Knight Two carrier aircraft. The flight lasted lasted nearly three hours and climbed as high as 45,000 feet. If the results are… Read More

Sir Richard Branson is at it again—whether it’s luxurious trips to outer space or stylish underwater adventuring, the Virgin Mobile tycoon wants to be the first to market it. Virgin Limited Edition announced today it will be going underwater with its new Necker Nymph aero submarine. The Necker Nymph a DeepFlight three-person aero submarine. Graham Hawkes of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, engineer and designer behind the Necker Nymph, likened this… Read More

Struggling telecommunications giant Sprint has announced it is buying pre-paid MVNO Virgin Mobile USA in a deal worth upwards of $480 million—although only $248 million will come out of Sprint's coffers when the deal goes through. The acquisition in designed to help Spring become a bigger player in the growing market for pre-paid calling: as financial times have gotten tough, consumers have increasingly opted out of pricey… Read More

Virgin Mobile has joined the ranks of mobile opertors offering $50/month unlimited calling plans, ratcheting up competition amongst mobile operators as cash-strapped consumers look to cut back on their mobile bills. Virgin Mobile new Totally Unlimited Calling plan comes in at $49.99 a month, and offer unlimited voice minute throughout the United States with no roaming charges; customers can add unlimited text and messaging for another $10 a… Read More

UK cable operator Virgin Media has announced it will be launching 50 Mbps broadband service in Britain, leveraging the company's fiber optic network. The move makes Virgin Media the first UK ISP to roll out 50 Mbps capabilities, and the best parrt might be the pricing: the 50 Mbps package will run just £51 per month, or £35 with a landline bundle. “Today marks a historic moment, for both Virgin Media and the… Read More

Struggling Internet giant Yahoo might be looking for a new CEO and trying to rescue its business after fending off Microsoft's mammoth takeover offer earlier this year, but the company is apparently still in a position to make mobile search deals. The UK's Virgin Mobile has inked a deal to make Yahoo's oneSearch Virgin Mobile's default Internet search service effective December 8, 2008. Virgin Mobile has about 4.4… Read More

Leading UK cable group Virgin Media has announced plans to reduce its British workforce by 2,200 by 2012 as part of a planned cost savings of more than $186 million over the next four years. The company said no job cuts would happen before the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the BBC. The company, which has just negotiated a deal to delay its debt repayments, says it will try to avoid redundancies and offer staff alternative positions… Read More