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Virgin to Sell share in UKTV

Watty — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:54:53 +0000

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.

Get out of jail Free

Watty — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:16:08 +0000

See

http://www.three.ie/terms/customer_notification.htm

and

Boards Midband

Ireland Offline

Fraud & Chip and PIN

Watty — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:14:53 +0000

I've always said that Chip & PIN was always about reducing the Bank's liability to Fraud. Not actually really more secure or reducing Fraud. With a signature you can prove it's not you and get the money back, with Chip & PIN you can't. Thus Bank "Fraud" drops. But it gets worse. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/chip_pin_security_unpicked/ Of course RFID for credit/cash cards or Passports is even more stupid. A technology designed to replace Barcodes (which can be photocopied) and RFID is not inherently a technology designed for Secure applications. Because RFID is unique "fingerprint" even if you don't decode it, an RFID "reader" at each location that your "mark" might use lets you track where the RFID is. If the "mark" realises, you could of course be tracking someone else that had the "tag" dumped on them.