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News Avaya, the networking spin-off from Lucent, has signed a multi-million dollar deal with FIFA to sponsor football's World Cup. The company will provide networking and communications technology to the 2002... [07 Jun 2001]
World Cup to blame for slower PC sales in South Korea and Japan
News Preliminary Gartner Dataquest estimates indicate PC sales in South Korea and Japan dropped during the second quarter of 2002, mainly due to the World Cup. The recently concluded 31-day-long... [19 Jul 2002]
World Cup 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
Comment Whatever team you support, it's hard to dispute the success of this World Cup. Tony Hallett: The World Cup is almost over and both in terms of the football and... [27 Jun 2002]
World Cup websites of the week: Fantasy football
News Throughout the World Cup we'll be bringing you reviews of some of the best, and worst, sites that the web has to offer. Pick seven strikers who you think will be scoring for fun at this summer's... [29 May 2002]
World Cup kicks off $300m mobile TV bonanza
News This year's World Cup will send the mobile TV market into the big time, say the analysts - a market that will be worth $300m over the course of the tournament. Footie fanatics are set to line the mobile... [07 Jun 2006]
World Cup security: Avaya poised to tackle DoS attacks
News Fifa's networking partner said today it was expecting hackers to launch huge denial of service attacks against the World Cup football network. Avaya's business development manager in Europe, the Middle... [09 Jun 2006]
World Cup costs UK business £391m
News While bar owners and bookies will still be celebrating a hugely successful World Cup the remainder of UK businesses are having to pick up a £391m tab after an unprecedented level of sickies and long... [03 Jul 2002]
World Cup 2006: Making IT happen
News But when you consider that budget is spent to support just one month's up-time it becomes clear why the Fifa World Cup Finals has been branded one of the world's largest - and most... [20 Jun 2006]
World Cup network breaks records
News Avaya is claiming a World Cup victory in the performance of the broadband networks it created to help manage the quadrennial footy fest. This quantity of data is equal to half of the data held in the... [21 Jun 2002]
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... [01 Feb 2005]
World Cup websites of the week: Where to 'watch' the match
News In the second instalment of our World Cup websites of the week we bring you a review of three different sites for keeping up with the game. The BBC: The BBC website offers minute-by-minute match reports,... [06 Jun 2002]
In brief: World Cup goes widescreen
News GlobeCast - a global communications provider - will be demonstrating public widescreen technology in association with the BBC's coverage of the World Cup. Using transmissions on GlobeCast's satellite... [29 Jun 1998]
Behind the scenes at England's World Cup HQ
Comment If they get bored of that The FA have put plasma screen TVs in each of the players' rooms while every squad member also gets access to a Sony Vaio laptop for watching DVDs and surfing the net, and a T-Mobile sponsored Samsung D800 phone... [15 Jun 2006]
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: A Celebration of Excellence
White Paper Avaya is proud to have been the Official Convergence Communication Provider of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. The challenge was to design, implement and manage an ultra reliable and secure,... [18 Apr 2007]
Sportingbet enjoyed the World Cup
News Online bookie Sportingbet has announced it signed up 50,000 new users during the last three months, with the World Cup the biggest factor in its success. The company said more than 300,000 bets were... [01 Aug 2002]
