Category Archives: Technology News

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been urged to halt the extradition to the US of computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, faces up to 70 years in prison if found guilty in the US of … Continue reading →

Virgin Media looks set to launch its 50Mb broadband on December 15 after inviting journalists to a mystery event. Although the company has thus far declined to give a firm date for the launch of its 50Mb service, it has … Continue reading →

YouTube rolled out an exciting change to all of its users today, by expanding the width of their videos to widescreen (16:9), from the previous standard format (4:3), making the player 960 pixels wide. A post, in the YouTube Blog, … Continue reading →

Virgin Media will double the number of hours it throttles the bandwidth of customers who hammer its network day and night, changes to its traffic management policy have revealed. The tightened regime means that between 10am and 3pm subscribers to … Continue reading →

Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett has attacked the principle of net neutrality, whereby internet service providers do not interfere with or degrade the speed at which content is delivered from websites to consumers, branding it as “b****cks”. Berkett’s cable operator … Continue reading →

Thousands of Virgin Media customers have had their broadband disconnected following problems with a routine maintenance procedure. The problem hit customers nationwide on Monday night, with some customers re-connected within 10 minutes, while others had to wait several hours. Virgin … Continue reading →

The government is to draw up a battle plan on the best way to roll out next-generation broadband networks. It will share best practice from high-speed pilots around the UK as well as lay out the business case for future … Continue reading →

Virgin Media has begun upgrading exchanges to 20MB today. According to several members at Cable Forum the upgrades have begun today and will continue throughout a range of areas until the end of summer. Virgin has provided a schedule which … Continue reading →

Lost amid the hoopla over last week’s EMI announcement regarding their decision to sell digital music without digital rights management (DRM) restrictions was the fact that Apple was only the first digital music reseller to sign on for the new … Continue reading →

London, 2 April 2007 – EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free … Continue reading →