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Sky Digital Sky’s parent company British Sky Broadcasting (commonly abbreviated to BSkyB)  has announced the acquisition of Virgin Media Television or VMtv for 160 million pounds in an all cash deal, both companies have also  entered into a number of agreements providing for the broadcasting of certain Sky standard and high-definition channels on VMtv. BSkyB will initiall  pay 105 million [...]

Image via Wikipedia HTC Wildfire smart phone which  is a lower cost alternative to the Taiwan based company’s  HTC Desire and HTC Legend models will now be available on mobile carrier Vodafone as well along with Virgin Media, Three and T-Mobile. Vodafone has announced that  it’s going to be selling the all-new HTC Wildfire.it has created a dedicated webpage giving  the lowdown [...]

Image via CrunchBase Virgin Media has teamed up with Enterprise UK Today’s to launch a new youth mentoring scheme called Virgin Media Pioneers. The plan is to  bring together business experts and entrepreneurs  in an online community, which will be conducting  a series of skills development sessions and networking events to help support the enterprising activity taking place online and to eventually  [...]

Image by William Hook via Flickr The war of words between Virgin Media and BBC Trust has turned ugly over Project Canvas. Neil Berkett, Chief Executive of Virgin Media has publicly slammed the BBC Trust’s consultation on Project Canvas and termed it as a ‘shameless whitewash’. Virgin Media has always opposed the idea of BCC Trust creating a new TV platform with a single proprietary user interface. [...]

Image by cogdogblog via Flickr There’s no doubt that convergence is the future and it’s a matter of time before tripleplay and quadplay services become the norm of our daily lives. For the uninformed, quadplay refers to a mix of Broadband, TV, Home Phone and Mobile Phone Services bundled all together for the subscriber as a single service. The latest company to join the quadplay bandwagon [...]