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Comic Relief Raises US$94 Million With Help of Web Application Testing

One of the most widely recognized charity brands in the United Kingdom, Comic Relief has always been an early adopter of new technology. With the rise of broadband, Comic Relief decided to emphasize its Red Nose Day Web site as the main channel through which people could access information and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Web Application, Comic Relief, Web Site Development, Branding, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Marketing, Networking

Case studies 2008-12-01

Comic relief - courtesy of customer service

Comic relief - courtesy of customer serviceNew programing skills neededFrom your article it is clear to me that what we really need are programmers who can code a computer to recognize sarcasm. I can see the want add now, Sr. Comedian/Programers needed. C++ and stand-up experiance required.Kelona?I'm impressed that Kelowna...

Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Kelona, Kelowna, Comic Relief, customer service

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site

Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live-authorizing hundreds of thousands of transactions arriving through the Internet, digital satellite TV...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Call-center, E-business, Comic Relief, Web Technology, Call Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, TVs, Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

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It never works right when you demo Windows 7 on Japanese TV

It's always awful when you try to demo something to a large audience and then it fails miserably. I found this video on Jason Calacanis' Mahalo.com site, a snippet of a Windows 7 demonstration on a segment of "Tokudane" on Fuji TV, a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Just-in-Time Intelligence Helps Comic Relief Boost Donations 25% While Reducing Failure Risk

Comic Relief wanted to calculate real-time online donations for broadcast during Red Nose Day 2009, a seven-hour, live, televised fundraising event and identify the clips that generate the highest emotional response from the public and result in high levels of donations so that they can be re-run throughout the event...

Tags: Oracle Corp., JIT, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Quality, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2009-08-01

The Heart Is a Smile Wide

Comic Relief wanted to provide a quickly scalable infrastructure reliable enough to be entrusted to process nearly 25% of the organization's annual income within a 7-hour window. As a solution Comic Relief virtualized servers using VMware on the HP BladeSystem. As a result there was 60% reduction in rack space...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

GPL's cloudy future

One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pact

Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pactSounds fairEach side is equally capable of screwing the other side over. That's as fair as you can get these days.This should be good for IT managers.I like how Peter Galli described it as a one dimensional deal. I think it would be...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., virtualization pact, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Wowwee's Top 10 Love-Starved Androids (and yeah, the toys are on sale)

I get a lot of stupid pitches from PR folks for Tech Broiler. Most of them I ignore and go directly into the bit bucket. But as tomorrow is Valentine's day, this one particular amusing distraction from the guys over at Wowwee, makers...

Tags: British SF, Marvin, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Comic Relief Leverages Technology Innovations to Increase Donations Almost 100-Fold in 10 Years

Comic Relief wanted to guarantee continued ability to capitalize on the emotional response of viewers during live broadcasts by capturing and processing instantly the thousands of donations, every minute. The challenge was to continue to cut operating overheads for the entire technology stack while reducing power consumption and cutting carbon...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-11-01

T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging question

T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging questionPre-order or not T-mob delivery method is greatThe articles/videos showing Apple's brick-and-mortar store lines, the iTunes wacky operation is comic relief to some. Not T-mobile. All I was told by wife was to sign for package. Wow, that is consumer friendly...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, T-Mobile, G1 Android, text messaging

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Comic Relief Boosts Sport Relief 08 Funds by Handling 100% of Call Center Transactions Electronically

Comic Relief wanted to process all telephone donations received at the 6,500-seat virtual call center electronically to boost transaction speed, data quality, donor service and identify failed transactions and improve productivity, security and efficiency by eliminating paper records of donations for later processing. The challenge was to make funds available...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Call-center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-06-01

Producer, game firm in rights battle over zombies

Producer, game firm in rights battle over zombiesWhat Next?C'mon, this is ridiculous. Will LucasArts sue Disney for having a comedy about Pirates? Obviously the makers of Grand Theft Auto need to be sued for making games that replicate hundreds of films? Perhaps MOHAA will be next for following the same...

Tags: Games, zombie, game, game company

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Trippi: Netroots will be critical on Feb. 5

Trippi: Netroots will be critical on Feb. 5Bubba hub in the house would be cool!I am on for Hillary, why? .............. BeCause she comes pardon the expression with her husband, Bill, Bubba, The Man! The country needs some comic, but competent, relief after 8 years of dick head and...

Tags: Trippi, Netroots

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

White-space spectrum debate rages

White-space spectrum debate ragesI would side with the broadcastersLet them get the switch to digital completed and then look at reallocation of the white space.I feel broadcasters are right...They paid to use a frequency segment under certain conditions including the availability of the white space to avoid interference, then others...

Tags: Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, NOAA Weather Radio, Mhz, spectrum

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner

The Pew Internet & American Life Projects report, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, has raised a lot of questions in the mediasphere in the past couple days. Despite the concerns that social media, or "Web 2.0," are not catching on with rapidly or broadly enough, the report...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Linux lab cuts staff, focuses on legal issues

Linux lab cuts staff, focuses on legal issuesM$ sent the goons!This is another M$ criminal action against OSS, because they've threaten the Linux sponsors with patent lawsuits.It's time for action against the M$ mafioso familia!Obviously due to Vista's looming dominanceOf course they are laying off people - they won't be...

Tags: UNIX, Linux, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Linux Lab, Microsoft Windows Vista, legal issue, open source, software

Discussion threads 2006-12-04

The grinches that stole Zune's Christmas

For the record, I have not been one of the lucky few to have laid their hands on Microsofts new Zune iPod killer which is due to arrive on the US market tomorrow. But, judging by Google News, there are plenty of reviewers out there who have -- reviewers that...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, General

Blog posts 2006-11-13

The grinches that stole Zune's Christmas

For the record, I have not been one of the lucky few to have laid their hands on Microsofts new Zune iPod killer which is due to arrive on the US market tomorrow. But, judging by Google News, there are plenty of reviewers out there who have -- reviewers that...

Tags: Personal Technology, General, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Entertainment, Berlind

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Fighting Microsoft's piracy check

Fighting Microsoft's piracy checkThis is exactly what a Monopoly can do...And why they need tight controls...If anyone thinks Microsoft reall gives a Rats-Ass about what it's customers think they are sadly mistaken. They know their customers have no where else to go.This is the voice of world control.I bring...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Fighting Microsoft, piracy check

Discussion threads 2006-06-20