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  • FIFA in race to finish World Cup IT

    World football governing body FIFA will have less than a month to install the entire IT network into all the stadiums for the World Cup tournament this European summer due to the late finish of the German football season.

  • World Cup match-up: FIFA vs hackers

    FIFA's networking partner said today it was expecting hackers to launch huge denial of service attacks against the World Cup football network as the first game of the long-awaited tournament in Germany draws closer.

  • Photos: FIFA IT Command Centre

    A peek at FIFA's IT centre and the World Cup broadcast centre in Germany.

  • Intrusion detection key to World Cup success

    After a failed attempt to illegally access the FIFA World Cup IT network at the Korea and Japan games four years ago, more emphasis has been placed on intrusion detection processes.

  • Aussie World Cup site blitzes Web ratings

    Less than a week into the World Cup tournament, Australia's own soccer fanatics Web site has pulled away from competing sports coverage sites, picking up 23.48 percent of the hits for the sports category.

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  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Catenaccio football 1.0 wins 1-0

    It's hard to think about anything else today other than Australia's ludicrous 1-0 defeat this morning by Luis Medina Cantalejo, oops I mean Italy.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    World Cup fever hits the telco sector

    It appears that employees of Australian telcos are not immune to the sweet, sweet lure of staying up till after midnight watching the soccer.

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Convergence drives FIFA World Cup

    video: Doug Gardner, Avaya's FIFA World Cup Program managing director.

  • 'Goalfest' for IT at the World Cup

    No other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup. How will local companies be contributing during this month-long extravaganza, both online and offline?

  • World Cup football loves to hate high-tech

    Fourteen minutes into Argentina's first World Cup match on June 10, a header bounced off the goalpost and into the Ivory Coast keeper's hands -- and maybe all the way across the goal line.

  • Yahoo7 on the World Cup leaderboard

    As the official online home of the Socceroos, Yahoo7's World Cup site will act as a 24-hour news source, discussion forum and multimedia archive for football-mad Australians hungry for a fix.

  • Siemens and the hand of God

    During the 64 matches to be played in the 2006 World Cup, an estimated 3.2 million spectators will pass through the 12 stadiums to witness the action first-hand. From arrival to departure, the entire experience will be monitored, streamlined and enhanced by multiple systems from Siemens.

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  • First Take: Toshiba S8 DLP Projector Bundle

    If you're on a budget but still want to equip your living room with high quality digital TV on a big screen, the Toshiba S8 projector bundle is undoubtedly worth a look.

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