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Virgin Media To Raise Fibre-network Capacity Fourfold
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network, but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.
[May 12, 2008, 9:46]
Virgin Retail Plans Major Technology Upgrade
News Virgin Retail is planning a significant upgrade to its Internet operations in the next two months which will affect both its high-street and online presence. The retail chain of the Virgin group of companies which includes the high-profile Virgin...
[February 24, 2005, 16:20]
Virgin Retail Saves 8.5 Hours A Week In Each Store With New Stock Solution
White Papers Virgin Retail is a United Kingdom (U.K.success story. Since the first Virgin record shop opened in 1971, the company has expanded its operations to 105 Virgin Megastores across the U.K.and Ireland. After researching a number of systems on the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virgin Megastores Opens Music And Video Vault To Customers With New Digital Kiosk
White Papers Since its inception, Virgin Megastores has been viewed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean as an innovative organization. To maintain that reputation at its Virgin Megastores in the United States, Virgin wanted to replace CD listening posts with...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virgin Shuts Down All Email After Hacking Scare
News A hacking scare at Virgin.net Sunday forced the company to close all email accounts and some customers were also hit with restricted Internet access. A statement within the customer services section of the Virgin.net Web site -- buried three pages...
[January 10, 2000, 16:42]
IPL Case Study - Ntl: (Virgin Media)
White Papers ntl:, now part of Virgin Media, was the UK's leading supplier of bundled services to residential customers. These included a range of digital and analogue cable television, broadband internet and telephone services.
[July 18, 2008, 0:00]
Virgin Megastores USA Turns Up The Volume With Unified Communications
White Papers To stay competitive in the constantly shifting entertainment market, Virgin Megastores USA relies on strong communications between its home office in Los Angeles and its stores throughout the country.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virgin Mobile Expands Customer Support
News Virgin Mobile has announced it is to create 200 new jobs in the North East of England through the opening of a customer support centre. Tom Alexander, chief executive of Virgin Mobile, said in a statement: "We are very excited to be opening up a...
[April 9, 2003, 11:02]
Virgin.net Calls Police Over Security Breach
News The police have been called in to assist Internet service provider Virgin.net following Sunday's "security breach," that forced the company to close all its email accounts and prevented thousands of users getting online.
[January 11, 2000, 12:05]
Update: Virgin.net Closes In On Surrey Hacker
News It has been revealed that the investigation into Virgin.net's security problems are being handled by the Surrey police. He says, "Usually this would go through the computer crime unit, unless Virgin have got some offices in Surrey.
[January 12, 2000, 10:56]
Virgin Trains Aims For 49Mbps Broadband
News Travellers on Virgin Trains' West Coast line may soon be getting Wi-Fi access with WiMax backhaul. With on-board Internet, working travellers can carry on with business as usual by staying connected while in transit," said Virgin Trains' new...
[September 21, 2006, 13:55]
Virgin Atlantic Bans Use Of Apple, Dell Laptops
News Virgin Atlantic has banned the in-flight use of most Dell and Apple laptops, following recalls of thousands of batteries by both computer makers. As soon as this safety issue is resolved these restrictions will be lifted," Virgin stated.
[September 15, 2006, 16:45]
Virgin Trains Boosts In-carriage Mobile Coverage
News Travellers on Virgin Trains could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high-speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.
[April 8, 2008, 9:29]
Virgin Takes Wi-Fi Up The West Coast
News Passengers on Virgin trains should be able to get limited high-speed wireless Internet access in their carriage by the end of this year, as the race to Wi-Fi enable the UK's railways heats up. Wi-Fi operator Broadreach Networks is installing...
[August 19, 2003, 9:39]
Virgin Mobile Calls On TIBCO To Enable Flexible Architecture
White Papers Founded in 1999, Virgin Mobile was one of the first MVNOs in Europe. To improve responsiveness to customers during this period of rapid expansion, Virgin Mobile implemented a new billing system and had to connect it to a CRM application.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Macromedia Case Study: Virgin Holidays
White Papers Virgin Holidays wanted to explore using technology to provide enhanced customer services through conveniently located self-service kiosks. Virgin Holidays selected Flash MX Professional 2004. Their goal was to add additional service points for...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virgin's First Mobile TV Handset Sighted
News The catalogue has Virgin Mobile's Lobster 700 TV device - designed by HTC and running on Windows Mobile 5.0 - listed in the "coming soon" section. Both Virgin Mobile and BT, whose technology will underpin the device, have been unwilling to name a...
[August 3, 2006, 13:50]
Virgin Entertainment Group, North America: Gaining Advantage From Microsoft Software Assurance
White Papers The Virgin Entertainment Group (VEG) operates one of the largest media product retail chains in the world, with 20 Virgin Megastores in the United States and North America, as well as stores in Europe and Japan.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virgin Atlantic Airways Pilots Radio Frequency Identification With Oracle And Tata Consultancy Services
White Papers Since it was founded in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways, as a company, is always looking for ways to take advantage of technological advancement. The aviation industry is gradually moving toward RFID standards, and the company wanted to ensure that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
