http://www.techwatch.co.uk Satellite, Cable, Home Media and Hardware news & forums Mon, 12 May 2008 10:03:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It looks as if BT is looking to off load their data centres, and they are already in talks with the US based computer maker Hewlett Packard. The price that BT is looking for, for this part of their global organisation is around £1.5 billion. The two companies are already partners ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/12/bt-looking-to-sell-its-data-centres/ Following a successful partnership agreement, Netgear are going to provide Virgin Media with their wireless G Routers, which will be named the Virgin Media Wireless Router. This equipment will be offered to all new Virgin Media subscribers for a low price or in some cases will be free. The routers are ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/12/virgin-media-to-offer-netgear-routers/ Is there never going to be an end to the scandals that surround the premium rate phone calls which viewers make, when it comes to voting for the winners on certain TV programmes? Or is it just that these phone polls have created such a mistrust of those who run ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/12/bbc-in-charity-cash-scandal/ With a change of senior management in both camps, it would to be a great time for the two sides to start talking, in an attempt to try and sort out the dispute over the Sky’s channels once and for all. There is no doubt that Virgin Media are suffering, whether ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/12/sky-and-virgin-talk-about-channels/ With the ink still wet on the billion pound cheque from Best Buy, there are plans already being made to spend it. The founder of the Carphone Warehouse Charles Dunstone has confirmed that the company have put in an offer for the UK division of Tiscali. However the offer for Tiscali ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/12/carphone-warehouse-to-offer-550-million-for-tiscali/ Having taken the sponsorship over from the Carphone Warehouse, Virgin Media have once again decided to continue with their Mobile division sponsoring the Big Brother reality programme for series nine. Carphone Warehouse pulled out of the deal with Big Brother when, in the celebrity show in early 2007, the Indian actress ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/09/virgin-stays-with-big-brother/ The owner of Channel Five, RTL, have been experiencing some problems with their advertisers as the market would appear to have dropped slightly for the first quarter of 2008. But RTL do have anything up to seventy channels across Europe and are reporting that the down turn in advertising revenues is ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/09/owner-of-five-hit-by-drop-in-ads/ The communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has finally come up with the amount that ITV will be fined for some of the most serious breaches of the broadcasting code and even their own terms and conditions. ITV will be fined a record breaking £5.68 million by Ofcom for the misuse ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/08/itv-fined-for-serious-breaches-of-code/ With the talk of usage and penalties for when a user goes over their allotted limit, sometimes users may be getting too close for comfort. For many users, not knowing how much time they spend surfing, it is hard to know how close they are getting to their limit. Luckily the ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/08/broadband-users-get-usage-calculator/ Always looking to expand into new territories, the Carphone Warehouse has signed a £1.1 billion deal with the US electrical retail giant Best Buy. The deal will see the existing Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK and across Europe stocking up with cheap electrical goods, such as computers and TVs. In ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/05/08/carphone-warehouse-expands-into-electrical-retail/