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Virgin Entertainment And Hannaford Bros. Co. Increase Store-Level Productivity And Communications With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network
White Papers Virgin Entertainment Group operates 18 Virgin Megastores in the United States that provide thousands of customers with experiential, interactive shopping through in-store appearances by major entertainment artists, a wide variety of music and DVD...
[June 7, 2006, 0:00]
ROI Case Study: Microsoft BizTalk Server Virgin Entertainment
White Papers Virgin Entertainment is a multi-channel music and entertainment retailer, providing consumers with entertainment products including music, DVDs, videos, and books. Virgin was using a hosted service to analyze its point of sale data, but the time...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Virgin Trades Gadgets For Your Privacy
News Virgin Entertainment has found a new way to figure out its customers' shopping habits: Give them free Web-surfing devices and then track their every move. Getting hold of a customer's name can be costly," said Glen Ward, president and chief...
[April 10, 2000, 14:07]
InfoSpace Allows Virgin To Get Services To Market Quickly
White Papers Virgin Mobile is aiming to become a hub for mobile commerce, to extend the personalization of its wireless services and to promote the Virgin Group's global expertise in the fields of entertainment, leisure and travel.
[November 5, 2003, 23:00]
Virgin Goes Jamming Online
News Virgin Entertainment Group -- the parent company of Virgin Megastores -- is to offer downloadable music over the Internet via an online service called Virgin JamCast. In partnership with U.S.technology company Wavo, Virgin will offer users the...
[September 16, 1999, 16:07]
Virgin Won't Be Rushed Over Wi-Fi
News The service will allow customers to access company networks and emails as well as doubtless offering Virgin-related entertainment services including movie and audio downloads. Virgin Trains is planning to roll out wireless broadband Internet access...
[February 9, 2006, 15:20]
Virgin.net Calls Police Over Security Breach
News Virgin.net is not only a non-subscription Internet service provider but also acts as a portal for Virgin's retail, airline and entertainment services. The police have been called in to assist Internet service provider Virgin.net following Sunday's...
[January 11, 2000, 12:05]
Morpheus Shutdown Puts Rival In The Spotlight
News A brief biography provided by the company lists her as having "experience overseeing entertainment software and leisure marketing ventures for companies including Viacom, Virgin and Sega. Hemming is a former Virgin Interactive regional division...
[March 6, 2002, 9:31]
Virgin Megastores Transforms The Customer Experience Through Powerful Converged Networking
White Papers Virgin Entertainment Group's main goal in 2005 was to maximize the customer experience by improving their listening stations. At the same time, Virgin decided to upgrade its phone systems within the stores in order to achieve significant cost...
[August 9, 2006, 0:00]
Webcast: Innovating Within A Retail Industry Disrupted By The Web
White Papers CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where...
[October 25, 2006, 0:00]
Email For All On Virgin Atlantic
News The European commercial airline on Monday said it is working with Tenzing Communications to integrate its Internet systems into Virgin Atlantic's inflight entertainment system so that passengers will be able to send and receive email via their...
[March 26, 2001, 16:15]
Virgin Mobile And NTL: The UK's First Quad-play Offering?
News Comment: This deal, if it comes off, represents an exceptional opportunity for Richard Branson to extend his Virgin brand into the heart of the UK's television and entertainment market. So, if this deal goes through it will define the shape of the...
[December 20, 2005, 15:55]
Radio Free Virgin Slims Down
News In the meantime, the company will use several employees from a sister company, Virgin Entertainment Group, to keep services running. Internet radio service Radio Free Virgin said on Wednesday that it has cut its staff nearly in half, joining a...
[November 2, 2001, 10:27]
NTL's Takeover Of Virgin Mobile Is Agreed
News The deal "enhances NTL as a scale competitor in the UK telecommunications industry, enabling it to become the first market participant offering an integrated quad-play product suite, combining NTL's network, products and triple-play experience...
[April 4, 2006, 10:10]
Gambling Sites Beat The Dot-com Downturn
News One site, Grab.com, moved from the 25th most popular UK entertainment Web site to the third most popular, behind Virgin.net and WindowsMedia, during the month of December. Online betting sites current rank as some of the most visited UK...
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
Fans Throng To UK Xbox Launch
News The first Xbox officially sold in the UK was bought by Scott Rawlins at the Oxford Street Virgin megastore, although many more had been pre-ordered for delivery on Thursday. Rawlins was treated to a ride home in Virgin boss Richard Branson's...
[March 14, 2002, 10:21]
Five Years Ago: The Changing Face Of Online Services
News Meanwhile Virgin is to announce its entry into the UK Internet market tomorrow. Subscribers will have access to a personalised newspaper service called Virgin Autonomy. Richard Branson's entertainment company is unveiling a dial-up Internet...
[November 19, 2001, 6:00]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News In a message board on Natalie Imbruglia's official Web site, a fan posted a letter this weekend purporting to come from Virgin Megastore's customer service, in which the store apologised and directed the customer to BMG's help line.
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
News Burst: Virgin Music Goes Jammin' Online
News In partnership with US technology company Wavo, Virgin will offer users the chance to listen to and purchase a variety of music from major labels and independent artists. Unlike other services, the content will be delivered to users on request.
[September 16, 1999, 10:44]
It's Your Digital Radio Friend... The GIMP
News GIMP (Ginger Interactive Media Player), it is a pop up window that sits on the desktop and connects in real time to Virgin Radio's Internet broadcast. In addition to the live feed, GIMP shows advertiser and station information, and on-demand access...
[September 23, 1999, 13:56]
