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News The company said that the football World Cup later this year will boost ad spending. Spending on internet advertising is set to rise over the next two years as more companies are recognising the power of online marketing, according to forecasts. [10 Apr 2006]
Fifa in race to finish World Cup IT
News Fifa will have less than a month to install the entire IT network into all the football stadiums for the World Cup tournament this summer due to the late finish of the German football season. Doug Gardner, MD of Avaya's Fifa World Cup programme... [10 Mar 2006]
BT and Virgin get together for UK's first mobile TV service
News No official launch date has been confirmed, although Lloyd said it was likely to be after the World Cup in June. BT has unveiled the details of its mobile TV offering, set for launch this year. The BT Movio service, formerly known as BT Livetime... [12 Jan 2006]
BBC offers classic news clips online
News The 80 bulletins cover events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting soldiers from Beijing's Tiananmen Square and behind-the-scenes footage of the England team before their World Cup victory in 1966. [03 Jan 2006]
Watch the World Cup on your mobile
News Germans will broadcast television images of the 2006 World Cup to mobile phones using technology developed in Korea. They will have it working at the beginning of next year so they can show the World Cup on mobile phones," said Chin. [22 Jun 2005]
Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi
News So if you have noticed a large number of emails in your inbox with German text, some seeming to offer tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006, this will be why. This manipulative email worm spread quickly, using social engineering tricks, such as... [01 Jun 2005]
Virus alert: Sober spreads hate mail
News Last week, antivirus firms warned that the previous Sober variant, which was disguised as winning tickets to the Football World Cup in 2006, had suddenly modified its behaviour and stopped propagating. [16 May 2005]
Sober virus now infects one in 22 emails
News One of the most widely reported email contains an alluring message stating that the recipient has won free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but many other types have also been spotted. One in every 22 emails circulating on the internet... [05 May 2005]
Love Bug legacy shows users still fall for false promises
News This week saw the release of the latest Sober variant which exploited the clamour for World Cup tickets to entice users to click on the attachment. Five years ago today the world was in the grip of one of the worst ever computer viruses - the Love... [04 May 2005]
Sober worm lures football fans with 'free tickets'
News A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an email from football world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. [03 May 2005]
World Cup 2006: Online sale of tickets kicks off
News Tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006 have today gone on sale online, sparking a clamour among football fans to enter the lottery for the in-demand tickets while raising fresh fears relating to crowd safety and leading to criticism of one major... [01 Feb 2005]
Football clubs get Philips smart season tickets
News FC Cöln's ground, the RheinEnergieStadion, is among 12 that will be used in the 2006 World Cup and after a recent overhaul seats 51,000 fans. Mifare is already used in many public transport systems around the world and is compatible with Near Field... [15 Dec 2004]
Is your cat a target for password-stealing hackers?
News The favourites are nicknames (21 per cent), birthdays and anniversaries (15 per cent), pet names (15 per cent), family members' names (14 per cent) and memorable dates such as the Battle of Hastings and England's World Cup victory (seven per cent). [11 Aug 2004]
Operators count on Euro 2004 and Olympics to boost MMS
News And they look with envy at the soaring take-up of MMS and 3G in South-East Asia, which was triggered by the World Cup in 2002. Sicap and its operator customers are counting on this summer's football and the Olympics to give them a compelling boost... [11 May 2004]
Real CEO: EC ruling could help in $1bn action
News to stream valuable football content at the 2002 World Cup were also shrouded in secrecy - but the software vendor says it has 1.3 million premium subscription users worldwide. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has spoken out in favour of the European... [07 Apr 2004]
