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News But when you consider that budget is spent to support just one month's up-time it becomes clear why the Fifa World Cup Finals has been branded one of the world's largest - and most unique - IT projects. [20 Jun 2006]
Would-be World Cup pirates warned 'you're being watched'
News Baker & McKenzie sent out letters to websites warning them they will be monitored throughout the World Cup in order to protect the interests of its client Infront Sports, which is licensed exclusively by Fifa to broadcast World Cup matches by all... [09 Jun 2006]
World Cup security: Avaya poised to tackle DoS attacks
News Fifa's networking partner said today it was expecting hackers to launch huge denial of service attacks against the World Cup football network. The head of Fifa's IT Solutions project, Mike Kelly, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia that a... [09 Jun 2006]
Toshiba bets on England World Cup success
News The electronics giant is the official IT sponsor of this year's Fifa World Cup. Toshiba is offering massive laptop rebates if the England football team claims the World Cup trophy for the first time since 1966. [05 May 2006]
Fifa in race to finish World Cup IT
News Fifa will have less than a month to install the entire IT network into all the football stadiums for the World Cup tournament this summer due to the late finish of the German football season. The late finish of the Bundesliga in May means Fifa's... [10 Mar 2006]
Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi
News So if you have noticed a large number of emails in your inbox with German text, some seeming to offer tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006, this will be why. The return of Sober (variant N) has seen it rocket to the top of the current threat list... [01 Jun 2005]
Sober worm lures football fans with 'free tickets'
News A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an email from football world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. [03 May 2005]
World Cup 2006: Online sale of tickets kicks off
News Tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006 have today gone on sale online, sparking a clamour among football fans to enter the lottery for the in-demand tickets while raising fresh fears relating to crowd safety and leading to criticism of one major... [01 Feb 2005]
Amazon full of the joys of Christmas
News If you spent Boxing Day watching Pirates of the Caribbean, listening to Dido's Life for Rent and cooking lunch on the George Foreman Grill while the kids played Fifa 2004 upstairs on the PlayStation 2 then it's likely you're one of the thousands... [02 Jan 2004]
Jerry Yang, David Filo, Terry Semel. Can you hear me? Your network took one hell of a beating...
Comment So what can you expect from the Fifa World Cup site. We asked Brian Andrews, from networking specialists Black Box Network Services, to give us his considered opinion based on some of the pre-tournament footage on fifaworldcup.com [19 Oct 2003]
World Cup 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
Comment In the following interview, Tony Hallett catches up with Gerard Gouillou, head of FIFA IT, pulling this Frenchman away from a supper with Japan's royal family, no less. Whatever team you support, it's hard to dispute the success of this World Cup. [27 Jun 2002]
They think it's all over!
News The unreliability of the FIFA website has been blamed for the rafts of empty seats at many of the games. The official site selling tickets for the World Cup has crashed due to demand. An apology posted on the front page says: "Sorry for the... [20 Jun 2002]
Football sites stagger under data traffic
News Even the official Fifa World Cup site, fifaworldcup.yahoo.com, had some performance problems during the match, with response times slowing around the half time whistle. It's been the most surprising contest in World Cup history, but one prediction... [12 Jun 2002]
Yahoo! launches new homepage
News The only display advertising on the new page is the central box, currently devoted to the Fifa World Cup promotion. Internet portal Yahoo! is preparing a simplified version of its homepage in a bid to boost its advertising revenues. [11 Jun 2002]
The Ovum View: The 3G World Cup - what's the score?
Comment Korean operators are involved in negotiations to get a Fifa licence to provide World Cup news and video images over mobile phones. The industry has certainly come a long way since France 1998, when there was no i-mode, SMS or data services. [31 May 2002]
