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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up However, later on this evening, Red Nose Day will culminate in a huge telethon which will no doubt be the usual priceless mix of BBC news readers doing song and dance routines and well, BBC news readers doing song and dance routines. [16 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Gill said: "The challenge is transactions appear in a very peaky way between 19:00 and midnight [of Red Nose Day] so there's a huge volume of what potentially can be very dense traffic. The Red Nose Day website expects to have around two million... [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. The campaign asks Piczo users to 'step up to the plate' to think up fundraising ideas and promote Red Nose Day via the social networking site. [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. Bebo has already signed up to give its homepage a Red Nose Day makeover on the charity's main fundraising day: 16 March 2007. [28 Feb 2007]
Comic Relief: Get giving and get recycling
News The football match at Villa Park will hopefully help make this year's Red Nose Day fundraising total the highest ever. Red Nose Day encourages people to do something out of the ordinary to raise funds. [08 Mar 2005]
Red Nose Days' Busiest Charity Web Site in the United Kingdom Processes 200 Transactions a Second
White Paper It wanted to maximize funds raised online by Red Nose Day activities, ensure complete security for electronic transactions, allow thousands of people to access Web site simultaneously, deliver high availability and minimize any loss of performance... [04 Feb 2005]
Cisco CSS 11K Provides 100% Availability for Comic Relief
White Paper On March 16, 2001, Comic Relief UK's Red Nose Day event aimed to raise an enormous amount of money for registered charities in the United Kingdom as part of the organization's mission to help end poverty and social injustice. [24 Feb 2004]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.03
Comment And by the time you read this, he will have delivered a 40 minute poem for Red Nose Day. What do these guys *do* all day long? Researchers at ICI-owned Quest International and Woolmark have together developed something called micro-encapsulation. [14 Mar 2003]
Red Nose Day site attracts rich pickings
News This is the first time Comic Relief has created a Red Nose Day event website separate from its usual year-round online home. Amanda Horton-Mastin, Comic Relief’s marketing director, said: "Comic Relief is thrilled that so many people have visited... [27 Feb 2003]
Comic Relief: The technology behind Red Nose Day
News The organisers of this year's Red Nose Day are gearing up for record-breaking levels of online activity in the run up to, and during, the event itself. Hopefully people will find the new site even more fun than last Red Nose Day. [21 Feb 2003]
Red Nose Day site goes live...
News The latest Red Nose Day charity campaign kicked off last Friday, with the website playing a more important role in helping raise funds than ever before. The site runs on Sun's Sun Fire V1280 server, making Comic Relief - the charity behind Red Nose... [11 Feb 2003]
Cisco nose how to help Comic Relief
News The site will launch on 6 February 2001 as part of the run-up to Red Nose Day in March. CEO Kevin Cahill said: "We want Red Nose Day to spread its wings and do different things, so we are very keen to increase our online capacity. [19 Dec 2000]
Comic Relief gets e-donation system from ICL
News The site at http://www.rednoseday.beeb.com is already taking some donations but will be put to the test on 12 March - Red Nose Day. ICL has been chosen by UK charity, Comic Relief to design and implement an electronic payment system that allows... [07 Mar 1999]
