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RSS world cupSkype 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 world Kazaa and Skype, have chosen a name for their new... [16 Jan 2007]
Is It Harder for a Pharmaceutical Company to Move from SAS V6.12 to V8.2 Than It Is to Qualify for the World Cup?
White Paper This paper will discuss the experiences of a pharmaceutical company during the validation of their SAS environment. The validation takes place as part of the migration from SAS V6.12 to V8.2. However, the discussion on the validation process could... [15 Dec 2006]
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 chance of stepping off with a top prize is through... [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 from IDC. [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 signed up to a controversial mobile trial. [11 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
Cheat Sheet If you know there are major events coming up, such as the World Cup, you might think to order in some extra crisps and beers for the couch potatoes out there. 'Business intelligence'? Is this just another oxymoron, like police intelligence or... [03 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 the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to... [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 performance standards of the Federation... [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 mobile phones will earn operators billions... [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 slashing handset subsidies and abandoning its... [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 Cup staged in Germany this summer where 15 sponsors accounted for 25,000... [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 Cup final as bait to install malicious code onto the PCs of unwitting fans... [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 staff picking up some serious media attention... [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 - with the credit card. [04 Jul 2006]
UK hits 3.3 billion text frenzy
News The approach of the World Cup may have also set thumbs racing. The MDA has found that text volumes jumped during Champions League and World Cup games, as fans managed to swap opinions without interrupting the matches. [27 Jun 2006]
