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Tiscali offers "Music for Life"
£9.99 a month eMusic subscription service offers downloads from 42p 29 October 2009 11:36 GMT
TalkTalk's Tiscali.co.uk has joined the ranks of UK ISPs providing music services with the launch of "Music for Life", said to be a "new" music download offering available to all Tiscali users.

www.tiscali.co.uk/downloads offers access to a catalogue of over...
Tiscali launches new widescreen hi-def EPG
Broadband supplier pumps up guide 2 June 2009 14:54 GMT
Tiscali has announced that it will be rolling out a new electronic programme guide, or EPG, on 10 June. The company promises benefits in speed and usability.

The new software is designed specially for widescreen, high definition televisions, meaning that users...
TalkTalk buys Tiscali
“The most important message for Tiscali customers is that their service will continue" 8 May 2009 9:48 GMT
After months of rumours, Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk has announced it is to buy troubled Tiscali UK in a £236 million cash deal.

The company says this will create Britain's largest consumer broadband provider with over 4.25 million customers covering over...
TalkTalk offers Tiscali customers £50 to switch
Aggressive move to tempt concerned consumers 20 April 2009 14:27 GMT
TalkTalk is offering Tiscali customers a £50 incentive to switch, following the news that auditors have raised concerns about Tiscali's future.

TalkTalk, the home phone and broadband company from The Carphone Warehouse, is offering a credit of £50 to Tiscali...
Sky's bid for Tiscali being "re-examined"
Take-over plans abandoned? 22 December 2008 14:51 GMT
Sky's current £450 million bid for Tiscali is under doubt.

Sky has apparently "stepped back to re-examine" its bid for the UK business of broadband provider Tiscali over doubts over the company's value.

Talks, that have been ongoing since November,...
Free Tiscali+ set top box offered
With broadband and TV sign-ups 19 November 2008 12:21 GMT
Curry's and PC World stores are offering a free Tiscali+ digital recorder set top box to customers signing up to Tiscali TV and broadband.

With Tiscali+ you can pause and rewind live TV. The box offers 50 hours of programme recording and the ability to record...
BSkyB bids for Tiscali
£450m for UK biz 3 November 2008 11:26 GMT
There were rumours that Italian firm Tiscali was going to sell off its UK broadband business way back in March.

By May, the contenders were lining up and The Carphone Warehouse was at the top of the list of possibles with a £550m bid.

Days after...
Tiscali to show Raindance films for free
Nine movies from 02-12 October 30 September 2008 11:51 GMT
For the fourth year, Tiscali has teamed up with Raindance Film Festival to offer free online viewing of some of the top entries.

From 2 to 12 October, nine movies will be shown online at the same time as they are being screened in cinemas for the London-based...
Carphone Warehouse makes another bid for Tiscali
Talks re-opened? 22 September 2008 12:13 GMT
It is being reported that the Carphone Warehouse has "tabled" an offer of $821.3 million (below 450 million pounds) for the British arm of Italian broadband operator Tiscali.

Tiscali put itself up for sale earlier this year, and Carphone Warehouse was reported...
Tiscali sues BT
Threat becomes reality 24 July 2008 11:40 GMT
At the beginning of the week, we reported that Tiscali was seeking legal action after a marketing campaign by BT, which questioned the future of its broadband service.

Letters were sent to Tiscali broadband customers implying that the Tiscali business may be...
ISPs agree "ground-breaking" piracy deal
Hundreds of thousands of letters going out to offenders 24 July 2008 9:19 GMT
Six of the UK's biggest internet service providers have signed up to a "ground breaking" plan with the music industry to tackle piracy.

The deal, negotiated by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform branch of the government, will see hundreds...
Tiscali threatens BT with lawsuit
War of words could get nasty 21 July 2008 10:35 GMT
Tiscali is alleging that BT is trying to win over its customers using dirty tactics.

BT apparently sent out a letter to Tiscali broadband users warning that their service may be in doubt playing on rumours of a sell-off.

Tiscali has responded by...
Tiscali revamps TV guide
Easier to use EPG 30 May 2008 16:03 GMT
Tiscali has designed a new electronic programme guide for its TV subscribers.

The new tool enables viewers to locate on demand, catch up and broadcast programming, from within a huge library of content.

Searches can be carried out across a specific...
Carphone Warehouse makes bid for Tiscali
£550m offer for UK ops 12 May 2008 17:46 GMT
The world wide web is awash with rumours today, notably the whispers that US retailer Best Buy could be after a whole host of UK electronics chains including Dixons, Currys and Comet.

And it seems the British company it already half owns,
The Carphone...
Best Buy stores coming to Europe
Following on from £1bn deal with Carphone Warehouse 8 May 2008 9:54 GMT
Carphone Warehouse is going to take on the consumer electronics world.

The British company, which has stores in eight European countries including France, Germany, Spain and Portugal as well as the UK, has signed a deal with American retail giant, Best Buy.
iPlayer vs. ISPs - battlelines formed
Internet providers call on Beeb to pay towards iPlayer costs 11 April 2008 16:30 GMT
Tiscali is the latest internet provider to insist that the BBC pay towards the added cost that it says internet providers are having to foot because of the iPlayer.

Battlelines started to form last week as the BBC threatened to blacklist any ISP that tampered...
VIDEO: Megawhat news - Microsoft makes Windows Mobile announcement
Catch up with the tech news web tv show 1 April 2008 21:45 GMT
Switch on Megawhat TV now for the biggest stories of the day from the world of gadgets and technology.

In the headlines this week - a big announcement for Windows Mobile; Virgin Media gets tough on pirating; Mozilla marks a decade of developing; Google Docs...
Top 10 ISPs ranked
Does yours come out on top? 6 March 2008 10:18 GMT
An independent survey of 4000 UK households has ranked the top ten UK ISPs.

Broadband Choices asked customers to rate their internet service provider for quality and reliability, download time, clarity of billing and pricing, after sales support, value for...
Tiscali may sell broadband business
Suggests sell-off is possible 1 March 2008 18:43 GMT
Tiscali's two-million UK broadband subscribers may soon be ringing another ISP when their connection goes down if reports on the web are to be believed.

Tiscali is facing a shake-up following the departure of its CEO, Tomasso Pompei, and his replacement by board...
Customers face higher internet bills thanks to video download sites
Tiscali say content providers should help build network infrastructure to cope with new demand 10 January 2008 10:20 GMT
Tiscali has raised concerns that if consumer electronics companies don't help fund the infrastructure for their internet-enabled devices consumers will have to be prepared to pay the price.

The comments come as the industry announces device after device that...
Tiscali takes on Sky and Virgin with new "triple-play" packages
"The most competitive TV, broadband, phone in the UK" 3 September 2007 12:35 GMT
Tiscali has announced it's taking on the pay TV market and Freeview with the national roll-out of its digital TV service. They are claiming they now offer the most competitive TV, broadband and phone "triple play" packages in the UK.

Customers can get over...
ISPs ransoming the BBC over iPlayer bandwidth concerns?
Teaming up to stop new VOD service getting a "free ride" 13 August 2007 15:12 GMT
The BBC's iPlayer is well into its public Beta phase and, despite controversy about operating systems the service works on, expects to have picked up about half a million users before it launches for real.

But, another row has broken out over the online video...
Tiscali TV customers to get basic Sky channels
New deal will see Sky programming on Tiscali TV 27 June 2007 13:39 GMT
Tiscali has announced a deal with BSkyB that will add the full set of Sky basic channels - including Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky Arts, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News - to its channel line up.

The deal, signed today, will see the channels become
Tiscali launch on-demand Movie Now service
Video on demand comes to Tiscali 4 May 2007 11:24 GMT
Tiscali has announced a partnership and the availability of a TV service on demand from its homepage.

Following in the footsteps of BT, BBC, ITV, Joost the broadband provider has teamed up with Arts Alliance Media for a new service, Movies Now, where users can...
Tiscali Max offers 8MB broadband
Service costs less than £20 a month 20 June 2006 18:06 GMT
Tiscali has announced an upgrade to its broadband service and is now offering speeds of up to 8MB.

The faster speed will allow users to upload and download more quickly; for example, a 90 minute film at near-DVD quality will download in around 90 minutes.