Virgin Media's cable TV customers viewed more 500m pieces of broadband video content last year, with the BBC's iPlayer accounting for almost 20% of programmes watched. The cable TV company said its on-demand TV service, which is accessed by 52% of its 3.5m subscribers, came of age with 516m views of...

For quite a while now, there have been mutterings that a high-level UK ISP was about to offer a broadband product which monetised peer-to-peer sharing. If it's not been quite the Holy Grail, the idea has been sought like it was some other cup that Jesus might have used at some point. And Virgin - th...

Sony's long-awaited Freeview dual-tuner adapter add-on has arrived in the somewhat functional form of the PlayStation-branded PlayTV! Will it transform the PS3 into a credible personal video recorder (PVR)? The PlayTV pack-in includes a Blu-ray installation disc and mini USB cable! Be warned: PlayTV...

In 2008, the ‘three-strikes-and-you’re-out’ concept has been gathering pace around the globe. Get caught uploading three times, and the anti-piracy groups would like your Internet connection disconnected. Unsurprisingly, most people aren’t that keen on this plan, and ISPs who...

Just like their music, entitlement-oriented hippies never die, they just keep on driving you crazy. The parents of the hippies fought a war to save democracy, and then busted their nuts to build a suburban world, so prosperous their pampered children would never have to struggle. In return the kids ...

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 adve...