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News France's top football league and its national tennis organisation are the latest to join legal action against video-sharing site YouTube. The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football... [06 Jun 2007]
Offshoring tips and pitfalls - readers speak
News Swimming pools and tennis courts are very nice," said another. Offshoring IT services to India can bring big benefits - but there are pitfalls for the unwary, according to silicon.com readers. In response to our Inside... [17 Apr 2007]
Keeping the techie workforce happy - Indian style
News With their swimming pools, tennis courts and even zoos, the campuses of many Indian high-tech companies have more in common with a country club than the average office block. But perks like these, along with talent... [21 Mar 2007]
Google zooms in on patents
News This includes patents on tennis racquets, popcorn machines and the flying machine patented by the Wright Brothers at the start of the 20th century. Google has launched a service that makes it easier to search for... [15 Dec 2006]
Paris Hilton hacker teen gets 11 month grounding
News The numbers included those of rapper Eminem, actor Vin Diesel, singers Christina Aguilera and Ashlee Simpson, and tennis players Andy Roddick and Anna Kournikova. A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile... [15 Sep 2005]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum replacement - for just a couple of months when in an after school session playing a tennis sim it all went wrong. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies... [03 Feb 2005]
Golf ball 'corrects own flight path'
News Other companies have developed nano tennis balls that don't lose air and golf shafts constructed with nanomaterials. Scientists are trying to use nanotechnology to cure diseases, ameliorate the energy crisis and reduce... [22 Nov 2004]
Mobile flops at Wimbledon tennis final
News After upsetting defending champion Serena Williams at the Wimbledon tennis championships, Russian teenager Maria Sharapova borrowed her father's mobile phone to call her mother from Centre Court. The humble mobile phone... [05 Jul 2004]
Miss a Wimbledon match? Watch it online
News Tennis fans can now watch replays of Wimbledon matches and other video content at the Wimbledon Championships website. The video is provided via a deal between the All England Lawn Tennis Club, the... [24 Jun 2004]
3 courts customers with Wimbledon coverage
News The annual two-week outbreak of tennis fever is upon us and UK mobile phone operator 3 is attempting to cash in on Henmania with plans to screen Wimbledon action and coverage on customers' mobile phones. [21 Jun 2004]
Wimbledon is 'love all' with Linux
News The Wimbledon tennis championship is moving away from a network of servers running on AIX, IBM's version of Unix, to the use of Linux and web caching technology. Andrew Burns, producer of the official Wimbledon website,... [21 Jun 2004]
Online bookies taken down by internet blackmail gangs
News The new attacks raise fears the gangs are targeting UK betting sites in the run-up to the major Euro 2004 football and Wimbledon tennis events. A new wave of denial of service attacks has been launched against UK online... [09 Jun 2004]
IBM in a sticky situation with chips and glue
News IBM is tinkering with a new material that could drastically slash the costs of "drawing" circuits on semiconductors, using a substance which is a close relative to tennis shoe glue. At the International Electron Devices... [08 Dec 2003]
Internet betting reveals match fixing
News Tennis players are alleged to have thrown matches in order to clean up with internet betting - and online gambling site Betfair is to open up its records for the authorities to try and track down the players who have... [13 Oct 2003]
IBM utility software on its way
News IBM is showing the software that's in use by the US Open, which is relying on pSeries Unix servers at IBM that switch back and forth between running the tennis match's website and performing cancer-related protein... [02 Sep 2003]
