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News Clips that can be viewed include the Queen's coronation, the 1966 World Cup final, the first ever episode of Blue Peter and the first pint pulled in Coronation Street at The Rovers Return. The British... [22 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: A 30,000ft view of the CIO
Comment However, I was in Berlin as recently as the summer, during the World Cup. I'm on an Airberlin flight to Deutsche Telekom's International Press Kolloquium. After an horrifically early start to the day... [30 Jan 2007]
Editor's Blog: What a week for... Starbucks
Comment Sticking with that part of the world, we're still waiting for the first developer to post to atlarge.com about drinking a cup of java in Java while coding using java. But of course another recent... [19 Jan 2007]
Skype founders christen web TV venture
News One such company, TVU Networks, made a splash last summer by offering soccer fans the ability to watch World Cup matches on their PC. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the duo that brought the... [16 Jan 2007]
Microsoft trumpets software 'Olympics'
News Microsoft's competition to find the best student software designers around the world is now open, with $170,000 in prize money up for grabs in the fifth annual Imagine Cup. But be warned: your only... [23 Nov 2006]
Back to school rush boosts laptop sales
News Following a slower second quarter, blamed on the World Cup, EMEA PC shipments returned to healthier levels in the third quarter of this year, with year-on-year growth of 11.2 per cent, according to data... [23 Oct 2006]
Mobile big boys in mobile telly pact
News In other European territories, the German-owned operator has been experimenting with DVB-H and used it to broadcast live football during this year's World Cup. Three of the UK's biggest operators have... [11 Oct 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment Could this be the same company that before the World Cup this summer promised a 66 per cent rebate on its laptops should England win? I spent some good time in Oz in January this year and from a trip on... [20 Sep 2006]
On the Road to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: A Continuing Tradition of Excellence
White Paper As official convergence communications provider for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Avaya is one of a handful of partners that have proven themselves able to rise any challenge and meet the uncompromising... [07 Sep 2006]
Mobile video to take off by 2009
News World Cup matches and clips streamed to mobiles proved popular during the 2006 tournament and earned the mobile industry as much as $300m by some estimates. Though it still has hurdles to clear, video on... [16 Aug 2006]
Vodafone: 'We're not snubbing 3G'
News We're second only to iTunes in terms of downloads.and the World Cup really put mobile TV on the map. Vodafone has denied it is giving 3G the cold shoulder, after weekend reports claimed the operator was... [01 Aug 2006]
Tech brands getting a sporting chance
Comment From the Vodafone Derby to the Fifa World Cup (brought to you in association with Avaya, Toshiba and Yahoo! Never has the criticism been stronger than with the Fifa 2006 World... [24 Jul 2006]
Zidane head butt leads surfers to malware
News If you still have questions about Zinedine Zidane's World Cup head butt, be careful where you look for answers on the web. Miscreants are using the incident in the World... [18 Jul 2006]
Breaking China: ChinesePod takes on language learning
Comment Every day the Shanghai-based ChinesePod team dishes out a fresh lesson of Chinese, on subjects as diverse as ordering food, Mao Zedong's impact on China and the World Cup. With his company ChinesePod... [11 Jul 2006]
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News Shortly before Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup at Wembley 40 years ago, a small team of people in a converted Northampton shoe factory realised they were about to change the way people shop in the UK -... [04 Jul 2006]
