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Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy days after laying off 85% of staff

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:22:01 +0000

Virgin Orbit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to secure more funding. The announcement comes just days after the firm laid off 85% of its workforce or 675 employees. Read more...

Virgin Media launches its 5G service on Vodafone's network

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:58:01 +0000

Virgin Media has announced the launch of its 5G service in the UK, which is built on Vodafone's network. The company says 5G won't cost extra, and it promises 4.5 times the average speed of 4G. Read more...

Virgin Media launches a new TV platform called Virgin TV 360

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:20:01 +0000

Virgin Media has announced a new TV platform called Virgin TV 360. It's available to all new customers and later in the year for existing customers with the premium Ultimate Oomph bundle. Read more...

Virgin Hyperloop: The first human passengers have traveled safely through a hyperloop

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:32:01 +0000

For the first time in history, two humans were strapped into Virgin Hyperloop's Pegasus pod and safely accelerated to 107mph in 6.25s in a 500m long hyperloop in the desert of Nevada. Read more...

Virgin Media launches “UK's fastest home broadband” with Gig1

Paul Hill — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:12:01 +0000

Virgin Media has announced the launch of Gig1 in Southampton. The £62 per month service will roll out to 15 million homes across the UK by 2021. The firm is putting on a free concert to celebrate. Read more...

North Carolina explores using Virgin Hyperloop One technology as a mode of transport

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:10:01 +0000

Virgin Hyperloop One announced today that companies in North Carolina are officially looking into hyperloop technology as a potential regional and inter-city transportation platform. Read more...

Virgin Media launches Intelligent WiFi and Connect app to improve home coverage

Paul Hill — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:26:01 +0000

Virgin Media has launched Intelligent WiFi which includes several tools for boosting WiFi coverage in the home. Virgin also released a new Connect app in order to help users manage the new features. Read more...

HyperLoop One rebranded after major investment from Virgin

Dreyer Smit — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:20:01 +0000

The company which prides itself on being the first to build and test a functional hyperloop system has received a large boost thanks to an undisclosed investment from the Virgin Group. Read more...

Virgin Atlantic to offer in-flight Wi-Fi on all 39 aircraft

Usen Joshua O. — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 06:12:01 +0000

Virgin Atlantic has begun offering Wi-Fi across its various transatlantic and intercontinental flights. The in-flight Wi-Fi is also offered on Delta Airline flights, its US partner. Read more...

Virgin Media suspends four staff members after overstating broadband rollout figures

Mina Esapa — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:16:01 +0000

Virgin Media has suspended four staff members after an investigation by its parent company, Liberty, found that Virgin had overstated rollout figures for its superfast broadband rollout. Read more...

Moto G4 Play goes on sale in Canada, India launch teased

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:44:01 +0000

The Moto G4 Play, the cheapest variant of the Moto G4 is now available through various carriers in Canada at a starting price of $199. The device is expected to launch in India soon as well. Read more...

Virgin America to start offering complimentary Netflix streaming

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:54:01 +0000

The Virgin Group's American-based airline branch will begin offering free access to Netflix during long distance flights next year. Read more...

Virgin Media launches mobile tariffs with unlimited everything, from £15 a month

Andy Weir — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:05:36 +0000

Virgin Media has launched its VIP tariffs, with unlimited calls, texts and data from £15 a month SIM-only, or £31 with a free handset, with discounts and free insurance for existing customers. Read more...

ASA UK Ban David Tennant and Virgin 'Buffering' TV Ad

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:38:18 +0000

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) of the UK has once again hit Virgin Media with a ban on their advertising methods, after the service claimed you could "say goodbye to buffering" misleadingly. Read more...

Virgin Mobile USA hit with 18 hour text and data outage

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:03:45 +0000

Virgin Mobile USA's customers experienced a nationwide data and text outage on the pre-paid wireless provider on Tuesday and Wednesday that lasted about 18 hours before service was restored. Read more...

Virgin Mobile USA to keep all Android phone UI's stock

Steve Donaghy — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:07:25 +0000

Android seems to be going from strength to strength these days, which just about every handset manufacturer under the sun releasing new devices all the time. However, one thing that isn't necessarily consistent amongst these... Read more...

Virgin bringing 100Mb service to more UK homes

Mike Brown — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:04:03 +0000

Virgin Media has introduced their 100Mb broadband service to another 150,000 homes, adding to the 200,000 already with access. Homes in Pentwyn, Southport, Treforest, Cheshunt and Hatfield are the newest additions to the growing fleet... Read more...

Virgin Media launches trial web video-on-demand player [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:34:34 +0000

Virgin Media announced today that it will be launching a trial of its first online and mobile TV player: Virgin Media Player. Virgin Media has confirmed 'hundreds of hours' of content for the beta trial including... Read more...

Virgin Media to offer 100Mb broadband by end of the year [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:01 +0000

Virgin Media said on Thursday that it plans to offer 100Mb broadband services to customers by the end of 2010. Virgin claims its customers will be the first to receive broadband speeds "more than 24 times... Read more...

Virgin Mobile to launch its Helio Ocean 2 smartphone

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:07:22 +0000

Virgin Mobile USA, sponsor of Britney Spears' Circus tour has announced the launch of its Helio Ocean 2 during the tour in March. The tour starts on March 3. Selected fans will be given an... Read more...

BT and Virgin Media to press ahead with Phorm

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:06:44 +0000

Stock prices of Phorm, a controversial targeted advertising company, rose as much as 40% in trading yesterday. Phorm deliver targeted advertising based on user browsing habits by using deep packet inspection. The method has... Read more...

Virgin to launch 50mbps service for UK customers today

Tom Warren — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:09:57 +0000

Update: Virgin has now updated its site with the full details on its 50mbps service here. Virgin Media is expected to unveil its 50Mbps broadband service at a press briefing this morning. It will be... Read more...

Virgin rapped on broadband speeds

Tom Warren — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:47:05 +0000

A complaint lodged by BT about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. The challenge centred around its advertisement "Hate to Wait?", which ran in the... Read more...

Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:08:52 +0000

Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent upgrade. A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's... Read more...

Virgin Media announces broadband speed boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:10 +0000

Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service.... Read more...

Virgin unveils spaceship designs

Tom Warren — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:31:43 +0000

Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space. It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially... Read more...

Virgin America To Offer Wireless Internet Access On Flights

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:07:47 +0000

AirCell has announced that it is partnering with Virgin America to offer Wi-Fi broadband Internet services on the airline's continental U.S. flights, enabling passengers to surf the Internet and check e-mail during flights in 2008.... Read more...

Equity firm targets Virgin Media

Tom Warren — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:04:23 +0000

Virgin Media, the UK's leading cable television company, is set to be taken private for more than Â£5.5bn. Carlyle, one of the world's leading private equity groups, has made a preliminary offer of between... Read more...

Virgin Media offically "Throttling" users.

Thu, 03 May 2007 18:16:33 +0000

Today, May 3rd 2007, Virgin Media announced to users that new "Traffic Management", (or "throttling" as it's called in the real World), will be enforced for "heavy" users of their Broadband Internet service. Virgin Media... Read more...

Virgin Media commences 20MB upgrade

Tom Warren — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:49:26 +0000

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... Read more...

Virgin plays chicken with Sky

Steven Parker — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:15:13 +0000

Virgin Media is threatening to take Sky to court to resolve the dispute over payment for some Sky channels that until last week were part of Virgin's TV service. While Virgin says that attempts to... Read more...

Virgin Media doubles cable bandwidth to 20Mbit

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:38:39 +0000

THE NEWLY RE-BRANDED cable operator Virgin Media, previously known as NTL:Telewest, has officially announced plans to double the maximum speed of UK cable-based internet services. Virgin Media will introduce a new 20Mbit cable internet offering,... Read more...

Vista's Virgin Network Stack

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:23:32 +0000

In a recent podcast Steve Gibson of grc.com has drawn attention to a detailed report by engineers at Symantec who demonstrate that Windows Vista contains a completely virgin network stack that has been programmed from... Read more...

Virgin France cops €600k piracy fine

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:02:41 +0000

Virgin France has been slapped with a €600,000 fine for illegally downloading Madonna's Hung Up for resale on its site - in the process ignoring an "exclusive deal reached by Warner Music France with France... Read more...

NTL Purchases Virgin Mobile

Tom Warren — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:24:32 +0000

Ending months of speculation, NTL Telewest has reached an agreement to takeover Virgin Mobile. The deal, estimated at more than Â£900 million will boost NTL allowing them to offer TV, internet access, fixed line phones... Read more...

Molyneux To Demo B&W2 At Virgin

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:16:25 +0000

Oxford Street’s Virgin Megastore will play host to a special demonstration of Lionhead’s Black & White 2 on Friday 7th October between 5pm and 8pm with Peter Molyneux giving gamers the opportunity to ask an... Read more...

Virgin Group to launch US online music service

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:26:17 +0000

Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into the increasingly crowded market for online music, with a "Digital Megastore" offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents. The move pits the British magnate's company... Read more...

Virgin Licenses Scaled Composites Technology

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:53:32 +0000

Scaled Composites, designer and operator of Space Ship One, have announced a deal with Virgin today. Worth ~$20 million, the tie up will see Virgin license Space Ship One technology, and offer flights under the... Read more...

Virgin Unveils Wearable MP3 Player

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:08:08 +0000

The silver-dollar size Virgin Electronics Wearable 128MB MP3 Player weighs just half an ounce and is ideal for people who love to enjoy music on the go. The Wearable 128MB MP3 Player delivers one of... Read more...

Virgin Unveils Personal Music Hand Held Kiosks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:49:29 +0000

On Wednesday, December 3 (4-8pm), Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson will unwrap the most high tech music retail environment, at the Virgin Megastore, San Francisco. The droolcool digital gadget at the uptown international party scene... Read more...