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The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up Indeed, for as filmmaker, comic and open source evangelist Woody Allen once said: "The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. Big, bad Microsoft has had a quite staggering change of heart. [29 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up In the meantime, kudos and a mention in next week's Round-Up goes to any reader who can make a comic sentence out of the following words: 'Gordon Brown', 'HMRC blunder', 'Tories', 'squeezy balls'. Life is full of little ironies and it's the teeny... [30 Nov 2007]
Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site
White Paper Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live... [05 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.06.07
Round-Up Picking up the largely uncomplicated format of the game, the Round-Up quickly worked out, in about week six, that the impressive Irish battleaxe, Kristina, would march to success over the trampled bodies of the obligatory upper class twits, call... [15 Jun 2007]
Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy
News Comic Relief effort. YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used the video-sharing site to offer his congratulations to new French president Nicholas Sarkozy. The video, which has been watched over 100,000 times, shows... [09 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up If you want to find out more about the ways in which technology is helping the team behind Comic Relief then you can do just that by reading this story. But today the Round-Up realises it has something of a mountain to climb competing for laughs... [16 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Comic Relief has revamped its website and IT infrastructure to cope with its increasingly tech-savvy fundraisers. Martin Gill, head of new media at Comic Relief, told silicon.com: "All those things - supporting what [the users are] doing, doing our... [15 Mar 2007]
Piczo gagging for some Comic Relief
News Comic Relief has teamed up with social networking site Piczo to get users more involved in Red Nose Day. Piczo, which enables teens to create their own websites, and Comic Relief have created a branded space for users to view the charity's videos... [06 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief clowns around on YouTube
News Comic Relief is working with social-networking sites to expand its online reach and increase Red Nose Day's appeal. The Comic Relief charity has approached several social-networking sites, including Bebo, Flickr, Google Video, MySpace and YouTube... [28 Feb 2007]
Project Marvel: Going With the Flow
White Paper Project Marvel (re-christened HTML DB in Oracle Database 10g) isn't the latest superhero comic-book title from Marvel Comics but Oracle's recently launched hosted development suite. Given the flexibility of the Project Marvel architecture, the... [11 Oct 2006]
Leader: Image shouldn't matter... but it does
Leader An open source expert could have the greatest sell in the world but if he turns up looking like the comic store owner from the Simpsons, there are going to be some doors that just won't open for him. The world of big business has long been obsessed... [29 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.12.05
Round-Up Moving on, and completing a hat-trick of comedian-based tech tenuousness, it was revealed this week that New York comic Jerry Seinfeld has turned to videoconferencing in order to make a film with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks production company. [16 Dec 2005]
Businesses race to keep up with generation IM and SMS
News New media and development manager at Comic Relief, Amanda Horton-Mastin, said the charity is trying to shift donations to the web. Consumers are embracing new technologies such as instant messaging (IM) but feel let down by companies that fail to... [20 Oct 2005]
Requirements of a 21st Century CFO: Meeting the Challenges of a Complex, Unpredictable Business Environment
White Paper Unfortunately, up to now, finance's changing (and growing) workload has been likened to comic book heroes (Superman) and astronauts ("The Right Stuff"). Finance's role is ascendant in organizations today. [20 Oct 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Comic capers and unlikely successes
Comment An intriguing development is the application of the comic book format to the mobile phone. Many mobile phones now have a colour screen not far from the size of a typical frame in a comic. There is no reason comic book downloads will not be popular... [05 Sep 2005]
