Virgin strings fibre on telegraph poles
Virgin Media is to trial running fibre broadband connections over telegraph poles, to give 50Mbps speeds to Woolhampton, Berkshire. If the test goes well, Virgin believes the service could give access to a million homes in the UK. IT PRO
Daily Mail backtracks on Facebook paedophiles
The tabloid newspaper has admitted a story that claimed a criminal investigator posing as a teenager girl on Facebook was hassled by pedophiles within minutes of joining wasn't entirely true. After a defamation complaint from Facebook, the Daily Mail admitted the story wasn't about Facebook, but an un-named rival social network. PC Pro
Street View covers the UK
Google's controversial photo mapping system has now snapped pictures of most of the UK's rural and urban roads, after rolling out to 25 cities last year. IT PRO
Job seekers get iPhone app
Jobcentres has unveiled its very own iPhone app, looking to make it easier for the unemployed - with fancy smartphones - to find a new job. Some 50 Jobcentre locations will also get new computers. BBC
Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The internet has been included in the 237 long list of nominees for the next Nobel Peace Prize, though there's no word on who would collect the prize if the net did indeed win. BBC
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UK to host largest European GPU cluster under £11 billion Nvidia investment plansNews Nvidia says the UK will host Europe’s largest GPU cluster, totaling 120,000 Blackwell GPUs by the end of 2026, in a major boost for the country’s sovereign compute capacity.
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Jensen Huang says AI will make us busier – so what’s the point?Opinion So much for efficiency gains and focusing on the more “rewarding” aspects of your job
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Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group merge to form O2 DaisyNews The new firm will start out as the UK’s second-largest small and medium-sized business (SME) solutions provider
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How Virgin Media O2 saved “millions” by enhancing data center efficiencyCase Study Reducing data center power consumption forms part of a broader sustainability drive at the telecoms giant
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Medium businesses: Fuelling the UK’s economic engineWhitepaper A Connected Thinking report
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Virgin Media to invest £3bn in UK fibre optic rolloutNews ISP promises to connect 4m homes to fibre network
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EE, Virgin Media & Vodafone back Net Neutrality pushNews EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone are the latest UK service providers to back Net Neutrality
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Virgin Media now offers free Wi-Fi at 150 Tube stationsNews Virgin Media now provides free Wi-Fi in 150 different tube stations across London
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Virgin Media trials new digging method to cut fibre rollout costsNews Narrow trenching proposals could make fibre implementation twice as fast
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Three to offer free Wi-Fi to customers on the London UndergroundNews Joins other mobile operators on Virgin Media-backed network on the tube
