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RSS footballManchester City Football Club Scores a Home Win With IBM and Software4Sport, Part of Computer Software Group
White Paper Manchester City Football Club is a rising star of the English F.A. Premier League, regularly attracting more than 47,000 fans to its home matches. MCFC's challenge was to replace paper ticketing with a modern system that would meet their criteria... [03 Jul 2008]
Rugby Football Union Scores a Winning Security Infrastructure with Check Point
White Paper To execute its strategy and support rapidly growing operations, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) required a network infrastructure that was more secure, scalable and flexible. It had to securely link RFU headquarters and the national stadium at... [03 Jul 2008]
Operating an NFL Football Stadium
White Paper The client is one of the nation's leading investment firms. The client had already launched some of their stadium technology infrastructure with minimal monitoring. In order to serve their business customers, it needed repeatable operations support... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM 'on Side' With Referees' on Demand Wireless Solution
White Paper Established in 1898, the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) is a national organisation that owns, operates and manages football-related activities in Italy. The challenge was to provide a simple, efficient, user-friendly, scalable... [03 Jul 2008]
Constant Data Replicates Multimedia Content for 3G Wireless Service From the Data Center to Satellite Data Centers Across the UK
White Paper In a country where the schedule revolves around the football game, "3" turned to Constant Data real-time data replication software for guaranteed delivery of multimedia for football video goal action, sport scores, news alerts, and audio bulletins... [03 Jul 2008]
Umbro Keeps Its Eye on the Ball With a Disaster Recovery Solution From IBM
White Paper UMBRO International Ltd is a sportswear brand wholly focused on, and specialising in, the game of football. The Challenge was to create a resilient environment for applications and data, and reduce the number of points of control in the IT... [03 Jul 2008]
Arsenal Choose Lyris Listmanager to Talk to Their Worldwide Fan Base!
White Paper One of the world’s most famous football clubs, Arsenal has been using Lyris ListManager Email marketing software to mailout monthly newsletters to around 40,000 registered addresses on the fan club database for approximately five years. [03 Jul 2008]
West Ham United Scores in the Hospitality Management League With iAnywhere Solutions
White Paper Following an ambitious stadium redevelopment project, Premiership football club, West Ham United Plc required an integrated PMS, POS and stock management system. It chose innovative hospitality products from SoftBrands, supported by market leading... [03 Jul 2008]
Premium TV Achieves 1.2 Million Registered Users in 2002 using Oracle8i Database platform
White Paper Premium TV (PTV) is the UK's leading provider of official professional football club Web sites, managing the online presence of more than 80% of Premier League and First Division clubs. Launched in July 2001 on an Oracle8i Database platform, PTV's... [03 Jul 2008]
Deploying World Class Converged Communications for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
White Paper Avaya was charged with planning, designing, implementing and operating a converged network to support the 2002 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Korea/Japan soccer tournament. [03 Jul 2008]
A Wearable Computer for Quality Assurance Inspectors in a Food Processing Plant
White Paper These workers walk around a very large, very loud, football field-sized plant and take food samples at various processing points. We were asked to try to improve the performance of quality assurance inspectors in a food processing plant. [03 Jul 2008]
Classification of TV Programs Based on Audio Information Using Hidden Markov Model
White Paper Here we consider the problem of discriminating five types of TV programs, namely commercials, basketball games, football games, news reports, and weather forecasts. This paper describes a technique for classifying TV broadcast video using Hidden... [03 Jul 2008]
Audio Feature Extraction and Analysis for Scene Segmentation and Classification
White Paper As an example, we consider the problem of discriminating five types of TV programs, namely commercials, basketball games, football games, news reports, and weather forecasts. Understanding of the scene content of a video sequence is very important... [03 Jul 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has fallen by around 10 per cent in the UK. [20 Jun 2008]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile Underwood studied at Nottingham University and is an avid follower and associate director of Coca-Cola League two football club Lincoln City. Nigel Underwood has been CIO at DHL Logistics for around three years, joining after the company acquired... [11 Jun 2008]
