comic
RSS comicJust-in-Time Intelligence Helps Comic Relief Boost Donations 25% While Reducing Failure Risk
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to calculate real-time online donations for broadcast during Red Nose Day 2009, a seven-hour, live, televised fundraising event and identify the clips that generate the highest emotional response from... [28 Aug 2009]
The Heart Is a Smile Wide
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to provide a quickly scalable infrastructure reliable enough to be entrusted to process nearly 25% of the organization's annual income within a 7-hour window. As a solution Comic... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.04.09
Round-Up She's traded in her pinstripe suit for the stand-up comic's microphone. A: None, it's a hardware problem. Ahem. Technology and humour are strange bedfellows - something the Round-Up has to wrestle with on a weekly basis... [17 Apr 2009]
From IT sales to stand-up comedy
Comment Enter stage right Thea Montgomerie-Anderson, a 32-year-old former BPM software saleswomen who sold risk management and quality management software packages to the financial and insurance sectors, and who, after being made redundant last... [14 Apr 2009]
Comic Relief laughing with cloud computing
News Comic Relief has turned to cloud computing to make sure its web and transaction platforms can cope with the demands of Friday's Red Nose Day 2009. Charlotte Melen, web technology manager at Comic Relief,... [12 Mar 2009]
Comic Relief Raises US$94 Million With Help of Web Application Testing
White Paper One of the most widely recognized charity brands in the United Kingdom, Comic Relief has always been an early adopter of new technology. With the rise of broadband, Comic Relief decided to emphasize its... [31 Jan 2009]
Comic Relief Leverages Technology Innovations to Increase Donations Almost 100-Fold in 10 Years
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to guarantee continued ability to capitalize on the emotional response of viewers during live broadcasts by capturing and processing instantly the thousands of donations, every minute. [30 Dec 2008]
iPhone vs BlackBerry, Dan Dare and wi-fi on trains
News Ben Russell, curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum in London, talked silicon.com through its Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition, a collision of technology and the colourful sci-fi of comic book hero... [01 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment But I can remember my earliest comic books, which included The Eagle and Superman. Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop at Lake Tahoe CA and sent via a free wi-fi service. [28 Aug 2008]
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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [16 Mar 2007]
