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News Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body Fifa. Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone
[23 Apr 2008]
News Last year's domain name disputes involved a wide range of products, events and people, including Airbus's A380 jet, the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Harvard Business School, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and...
[28 Mar 2008]
Case Study The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament, which sees nations...
[12 Mar 2008]
whitepaper With a worldwide television audience of 3.5 billion, the Rugby World Cup (RWC) was the world's biggest sporting event in 2003. It is the showpiece of the International Rugby Board (IRB) - the organization that administers the sport - and the...
[04 Mar 2008]
Case Study Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club, winners of the Heineken European Cup in 2000 and former home of England 2003 World Cup Winners Ben Cohen and Matt Dawson, suffered a major data loss three years ago that affected the running of the club.
[21 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet Moreover, if there's a large number of people in the same mobile cell attempting to watch the same thing - say a World Cup football final - the signal quality can degrade. The nascent world of mobile TV is awash with fiendish acronyms (more on...
[22 Nov 2007]
News Fifa's head of new media, Charles-Henry Contamine said: "It's basically the operational tool with which we manage the World Cup when it's going on.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Although the next World Cup isn't taking place until 2010, the...
[03 Aug 2007]
Comment We probably won't know the scalability questions have been answered until a few multimillion-viewer households successfully make it through the World Cup or Super Bowl Sunday without a system meltdown.
[04 Jul 2007]
Comment Vaughan had in an interview referred to the 'Fredalo' incident in the Caribbean, referencing the occasion where England all-rounder and all round good egg Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff drunkenly fell off a pedalo into the sea in the early hours of one...
[15 Jun 2007]
Comment Viewers around the world tuned in to watch the 2006 Fifa World Cup in record numbers using their PCs and other internet-connected devices. Yet, he explained, that very combination of cross-industry strengths is confusing and we find ourselves "at a...
[04 Jun 2007]
Round-Up British climber Rod Baber made the call from 8,848 metres, possibly to ask whether he'd left the cooker on - or to enquire after who won the FA Cup. If, like the Round-Up, you always used to get a copy of the Guinness Book of Records from your...
[25 May 2007]
News Other services could be offered at the ATM, such as the latest World Cup cricket scores printed out on a customer's receipt. It has become an indispensable part of daily life and yet, over the years, the technology has remained surprisingly static.
[02 May 2007]
whitepaper Avaya was one of a handful of providers as Official Convergence Communication Provider of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. The challenge was to provide highly flexible, easy to deploy and manage converged communications for the German Football...
[18 Apr 2007]
whitepaper In the summer of 2006, Germany hosted the 18th FIFA World Cup to decide the best football team on the planet. The challenge was to provide effective, efficient and secure around-the-clock communications to more than 15,000 on-the-move FIFA...
[18 Apr 2007]
whitepaper 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, high-capacity converged communications network for over...
[18 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Since becoming a trusted FIFA World Cup partner in 2001, Avaya has helped bring the excitement of the world's most popular sport to an estimated total global audience of 30 billion fans. The challenge was to provide ultra secure around-the-clock...
[18 Apr 2007]
Round-Up Podcast Mobile phone hell on the London Underground, the death of cash and what role MP3 players can have in England's cricket World Cup campaign are all up for discussion in this week's instalment of the Weekly Round-Up podcast.
[15 Mar 2007]
Comment At times, I loved it more than a nice cup of tea. And what if the world were WiMax? While working at this year's 3GSM tradeshow, Jo Best got a lesson in what every business traveller knows - getting online via wi-fi or 3G leaves much to be desired.
[23 Feb 2007]
News Clips that can be viewed include the Queen's coronation, the 1966 World Cup final, the first ever episode of Blue Peter and the first pint pulled in Coronation Street at The Rovers Return. The British Film Institute (BFI) is using a 'digital...
[22 Feb 2007]
Comment However, I was in Berlin as recently as the summer, during the World Cup. I'm on an Airberlin flight to Deutsche Telekom's International Press Kolloquium. After an horrifically early start to the day I've had a chance to reflect on silicon.com's...
[30 Jan 2007]
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