All Posts Tagged With: "BT"

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UK ISPs Sign Joint Targeted Ads Deal

Three of the UK’s largest ISPs made a major joint announcement yesterday that didn’t seem to cause as many ripples as I expected, as I thought more sites would pick up on the potential privacy issues.
BT, Virgin Media and Talk Talk announced that they had signed exclusive deals with advertising technology company Phorm to use [...]

15Feb2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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BT Fon Launched: The World’s Largest Wi-Fi Community

Ever since BT invested in Fon, I’ve been on the lookout for the launch of a joint BT/Fon service in the UK, and as expected, word of the launch of ‘BT Fon‘ , creating the world’s largest Wi-Fi community, has just hit the wires.
The partnership between BT and Fon is very ingenious, bringing together BT’s [...]

4Oct2007 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
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Virgin Media Sign Deal To Stream Football Over Broadband And Mobile

Virgin Media announced yesterday a deal with the Football League to stream footage over broadband and mobile. A mixture of live footage and highlights will be available.
I know that Virgin Media are working hard on acquiring content to try and stop the huge numbers of customers that are deserting and being the first to [...]

13Jul2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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BT The Number 1 Broadband Provider In The UK

BT has regained it’s lead as the number one Broadband Provider in the UK, passing Virgin Media who had held the top spot for the last year. BT now has 3.7m Broadband users in the UK and 26% of the overall market. What was even more impressive was that BT grabbed 32% of [...]

17May2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Quick Links 09-03-07

I’m way behind on my feed reader at the moment. I’m determined to get up to date today. Here’s what I’ve spotted so far that is interesting:

Branson Points Legal Sabre At Sky
ReviewMe Misrepresenting?
Scribd - YouTube For Documents
BT To Invest In Fon?
WordPress Community Plugins

9Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Why Do Bloggers Think That ‘Old Media’ Rules Don’t Apply To Them?

Two stories have spread like wildfire around the blogosphere over the last couple of days. The first one was Sony’s decision to remove Kotaku from its favoured sources because Kotaku leaked a rumour after Sony asked them not to, and the second accusing Wired of deliberately trying to make Digg look bad, because it [...]

2Mar2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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“How Do I Change Channel On My Monitor?” - 10 Dumb PC Helpline Questions

I’ve found that visiting call centres and listening to calls for an hour or so can be very enlightening. Because it is natural to hang out with like-minded people it is easy to forget that not everyone has the same knowledge set.
Just look at these examples from BT in the UK. They [...]

3Feb2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Would Sky Really Remove Its Channels From ntl:Telewest?

I just read a story on Tech Digest that frankly stunned me.  According to Media Digest, Sky is planning on removing it’s own channels (Sky One, Sky News, Sky Sports etc.) from its cable rival.  If they did do this it would be a very bold move in the growing war between BSkyB and ntl:Telewest [...]

25Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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BT Vision Launches On 4th December

The word on the street is that BT’s IPTV service, BT Vision is going to launch on 4th December. The BT Vision service will combine on-demand TV with over 30 Freeview channels. The service will have no subscription charges and users will only pay for any PPV content they select. The [...]

27Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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How Good Is Your Pitch? Test It In The Hi-Def Chamber

BT have just launched a cool viral game to promote their VoIP product, Softphone with hi definition sound. The idea of the campaign is to demonstrate how good the voice quality is.
To play the Hi-Def Chamber you need a microphone. The object of the game is to break a wine glass with your [...]

16Nov2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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