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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Photos: FIFA IT Command Centre

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

  • Yahoo7 and Socceroos: Match made in heaven?

    In this interview, David McGrath, head of news, sport and finance at Yahoo7, talks about how the site will serve football-mad Australians hungry for a fix.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • '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?

  • How dirty is Victoria Police's laundry?

    When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.

  • SBS adds server muscle to World Cup defence

    Broadcaster SBS has beefed up the infrastructure behind its World Cup football Web site as Australia's participation for the first time since 1974 is expected to generate unprecedented levels of online traffic.

  • 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.

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