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Millions of people may become astronauts
pay for, starting with Virgin Records in the 1970s. That telecom and cable giant Virgin Media , before Branson turned aviation. In 1984, he started Virgin Atlantic airline, which has offshoots Virgin America and Virgin Australia
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Rupert Murdoch's News of the World Accused of More Phone Hacksthe police. Advertisers are now boycotting the News. Ford and Halifax Insurance have pulled ads; others, such as Virgin Media and the Tesco grocery chain, said they are considering doing the same. "It is absolutely disgusting what has taken
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News of the World Accused of Hacking Phone of Murdered Girl, Milly DowlingBritish division of the automotive giant, said it would stop advertising in News of the World because of the hacking. Virgin Media and the giant grocery chain Tesco said they were considering pulling their ads as well. This isn't the first time
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Breakdown Rocketmen and Internet Fixing Ferrets?Don't worry if you haven't heard of this new technique. The Telegraph quotes Jon James, director of broadband for Virgin Media , using the ferrets saying, "We initially kept the trial low-key as we wanted to assess how well the ferrets fitted
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Virgin Media and Universal launch music service
Virgin Media , the cable TV operator owned by entrepreneur companies as a world first, will allow Virgin Media 's broadband customers in Britain to distribution of its repertoire across Virgin Media 's network." They said they will also
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Choose Your Own Centerfold: Playboy on Sale for $300Mbidder might also come from overseas: Virgin Media , the U.K. cell phone, Internet The company licenses the popular Virgin name and logo from Sir Richard Branson.) The Daily Mail said Virgin 's name has been "raised as a potential
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ISPs Ready to Assist the RIAA?
are other ideas, like a licensed p2p system recently instituted on the Isle of Man and proposed by UK ISP provider Virgin Media -the company ultimately had to scrap the plan after the record labels backed out. The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Leaked Report Details Secret Ad Software Trials in UK
also has agreements to begin trials with two other major ISPs (Internet service providers), Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media . The Information Commissioner's Office, which handles data privacy regulation, has said it will monitor the trials
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Microsoft to Go Hostile?
range from the former eHarmony CEO Jaynie Studenmund and former Nextel CEO John Chapple to the Director and Chairman at Virgin Media , James Mooney. If you're interested in some expert analysis on how a hostile takeover might play out, check out
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Controversial Ad System Keeps Its Eye on the Money
success will be dependent on participation from those entities and, most of all, users. So far, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media , also major ISPs, have plans to deploy the system. Ertugrul said he has also been in discussions with a popular social-networking
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Virtual Worlds: Risky Business?
appearing in inappropriate places. The move followed a decision by several companies, including the AA, First Direct, Virgin Media and Vodafone, to pull their advertising from Facebook following reports that their ads were being displayed alongside
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Blackstone closes fund after raising $21.7B for buyouts
around private equity. Congress is weighing measures that may more than double the amount of taxes buyout firms pay. Virgin Media on Tuesday postponed a planned sale of the company, and Cadbury Schweppes last month delayed the sale of its U.S
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Virgin Media drags feet on deal
Virgin Media vmed said Tuesday that it is volatile credit markets. Virgin , which is listed on the suggested as suitors. Virgin said Tuesday that "potential and the mobile operator Virgin Mobile , was formed to create
