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RSS festivalGlastonbury goes online for high-tech festival
News Music fans without a ticket for this year's Glastonbury festival can enjoy the best of the extravaganza via free broadcasts on the web, without having to use chemical toilets or contract trench foot. The Glastonbury... [21 Jun 2002]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its coverage of this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, which starts today. One of the most significant additions to the website this year is live streaming from... [25 Jun 2009]
Orange trials mobile ticket sales at Edinburgh Festival
News Nokia and Orange are trialling their first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) handsets at this month's Edinburgh Fringe festival. Orange-haired girls are persuading theatregoers to order tickets online via the Nokia... [18 Aug 1999]
Motorola iTunes phone set to launch at V Festival?
News Now, according to reports, the final release date has been set as the weekend of 21 August, the first day of the V music festival. The fruits of the long-awaited partnership between Motorola and Apple look set to finally... [11 Jul 2005]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the most interesting tech O2 and Orange have come up with to improve the festival experience. It uses... [26 Jun 2008]
For Bonnaroo Festival, D-Link Turns 700-Acre Farm Into Wi-Fi City
White Paper The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held in June on a beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn.miles south of Nashville. For the Bonnaroo... [03 Apr 2009]
Bonnaroo Music Festival Launches "Instant Network" and Meets iPod Wi-Fi User Demands With Rugged, Energy-Saving D-Link Networking Gear
White Paper When one puts on the biggest, most popular festival in United States, there are some challenges. The Bonnaroo Festival is essentially an instant population of 80,000 that materializes over night. The... [03 Apr 2009]
Cannes Film Festival Part II: The Network and Entertainment Converge
White Paper Cisco joins the international film community to enable a way for content to find the consumer, where the network and entertainment converge. [07 Jan 2008]
Developers at U.K. TV Distributor Enhance Annual Festival With New Application
White Paper Every year, more than 500 representatives from television networks around the world are invited to Brighton, on the south coast of England, to view the best of British programming. The team saw a digitised BBC Showcase as a way to... [30 Aug 2007]
Electronic nose finds favour at truffle festival
News Italian rural life is ahead of the game when it comes to electronic noses. While big manufacturers debate their potential for food packaging, a small town in Piedmont, Italy has embraced them wholeheartedly. [08 Nov 1998]
Bill Gates 'shot dead' in LA
News A film portraying the assassination of Microsoft boss Bill Gates is to be screened later this month at the Slamdance film festival. The film opens on 13 January at Utah's Slamdance film festival. The... [07 Jan 2002]
Glastonbury shambles nothing to do with us, says eBay
News Online auction company eBay has denied any responsibility for the changes to the ticket sales procedure for this year's Glastonbury festival, which organisers have admitted contributed to the poor performance of the... [02 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed t-shirt for another year - and is left wondering why anyone ever thought standing in a muddy field listening to a band a half-mile away... [04 Jul 2008]
Orange SMS glow tent wows Glastonbury-goers
News Mobile phone operator Orange eased the headaches of some festival goers at Glastonbury this past weekend with an innovation that makes it easy to find a tent in a crowded field of similar canvas domes. [28 Jun 2004]
Mobiles to kill cash at music festivals?
News O2 will trial near field communications technologies at the O2 Wireless Festival this year, an experiment it predicts could mean the end of using cash at festivals. Festival goers will be able to upload... [04 Jun 2007]
