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Just-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... [28 Aug 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. During the previous Red... [12 Mar 2009]
Comic Relief Raises US$94 Million With Help of Web Application Testing
White Paper With the rise of broadband, Comic Relief decided to emphasize its Red Nose Day Web site as the main channel through which people could access information and make donations. One of the most widely... [31 Jan 2009]
Comic Relief Leverages Technology Innovations to Increase Donations Almost 100-Fold in 10 Years
White Paper The challenge was to continue to cut operating overheads for the entire technology stack while reducing power consumption and cutting carbon footprint and process an anticipated US$50 million from Red... [30 Dec 2008]
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... [16 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study The charity expects between 1.2 and 1.3 million donations to come in on the Red Nose night alone, with the lion's share being split between the charity's website and the 13,500 call centre operators... [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... [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... [28 Feb 2007]
Photos: A safer way to navigate the skies
Photo The system also provides on screen a host of other information including the aircraft's speed, height and the desired destination so there's little chance of landing on the wrong airfield or runway (a common mistake when even the... [05 Oct 2006]
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... [08 Mar 2005]
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. Wallace and Gromit eat your heart out: some UK boffins have invented a pair of genuinely clever trousers.... [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... [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... [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,... [11 Feb 2003]
Slade slain by Santa's sled-shifter
News Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is the mobile phone ringtone of choice this Christmas, trouncing other Yuletide staples such as Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer... [19 Dec 2001]
