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Iceland: Good choice for hosted server?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | Author:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0819/iceland.html

 

<< On 16 June a unanimous parliament voted in favour of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a resolution aimed at protecting investigative journalists and their sources.

'We took all the best laws from around the world and pulled them together, just like tax havens do, in order to create freedom of information and expression, a transparency haven >>

Ireland has quite difficult Slander and Libel laws. Also discussion of various topics can be deemed "illegal" or "criminal".

 

There is fibre from Iceland to Europe and USA. They also have cheap electricity. Atmosphere cooling of data centres is viable too. So a good place to have your hosted virtual server or build your next Data Centre?

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Virgin to Sell share in UKTV
Monday, August 09th, 2010 | Author:

Virgin media recently sold its own channels to Sky. Now it wants to sell off its half share in 10 more digital TV channels, including Dave and Gold, and aims to raise at least £350m from the disposal, the Sunday Times reports.

The channels are part of UKTV, which is jointly owned by the BBC.

With the sale of UKTV, Virgin Media will become a pure play telecoms company, straddling cable TV and landlines, broadband and mobile.

Sky will be a potential customer and BBC has first refusal rights. But arguably Sky should be either a Platform or a Broadcaster, not both.

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