Byte Night 2008, the biggest event yet!
Blog It's that time of year again and October 3rd will see over 500 people sleeping out in locations around the country in aid of Byte Night. This year, the Byte Night Local concept has spread to Reading, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester where local...
[September 19, 2008, 12:03]
Byte Night: Industry event to help the homeless
News Some of the leading figures in UK technology will again be turning out this year for Byte Night, which will be held on 17 September. Michael Avis, Sun Microsystems marketing director, said: "Byte Night changes so many of our pre-conceived ideas...
[June 18, 2004, 15:20]
Byte Night hailed 'outstanding' success
News Friday night saw the IT community come out in support of Byte Night -- an annual event which raises money and awareness for charities battling against the problem of youth homeless in the UK. Duncan Mitchell, UK managing director of Cisco, said...
[September 22, 2003, 13:15]
Launching the Byte Night blog
Blog Most of you will probably be aware of the annual Byte Night "sleep out" and this year it's easier than ever to keep up with the news. As well as this blog, we've got a great new web site where you can find out all about the events and how to get...
[June 16, 2009, 9:22]
Tech giants get behind Byte Night '06
News Byte Night 2006 will take place on 22 September. Last year Byte Night raised £250,000 for NCH. Liz Monks, NCH executive director of fundraising, said: "The involvement of such high-profile figures in Byte Night is a tribute to how far the event has...
[May 30, 2006, 9:50]
Byte Night breaks all records
Blog Comment Well done thats quite an achievment. Best of luck with the next one. Send me an invite!
[October 22, 2007, 10:13]
Biggest Byte Night ever teams up with Michael Fish
Blog We've got a massive 660 people signed up for the event now so the 2nd October is all set to be the biggest Byte Night ever. To make sure we're well prepared, we've got weather forecasting legend Michale Fish helping us out on the night.
[September 4, 2009, 10:55]
Dog sleeps out for Byte Night
Blog We've also got our first dog sleeping out in aid of Byte Night. Before I went away, we had a Byte Night board meeting. Wow! I've been on holiday for a week and so much has happened whilst I was away. Firstly, there's now an extra venue in Newcastle...
[August 10, 2009, 9:46]
Join Byte Night in Trafalgar Square tonight
Blog This Friday, 10 July, Byte Night supporter Dianne Stradling will perched high above London on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth singing and dancing to the Time Warp. The stunt which will mark 140 years of Action for Children is part of Anthony...
[July 10, 2009, 15:09]
Jenny Agutter: Roughing IT in London
News Agutter, who shot to fame in the '70s film classic The Railway Children, is taking part in the tech industry's Byte Night event, in association with NCH, to raise money for young homeless people. And so when Byte Night was founded four years ago by...
[September 21, 2001, 16:49]
IT chiefs join homeless for a night
News Byte Night founder Ken Deeks got the idea for the event in 1998 from a poster on the tube, which mentioned a deadline for the year 2000. And so Byte Night was born. Tony Benjamin, project manager solutions project at NCH, agrees that the young...
[September 17, 2001, 16:14]
E-commerce minister roughs it with Jenny Agutter
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is set to join film star Jenny Agutter and a host of top IT bosses by sleeping rough in London on Friday night at the fourth Byte Night. This year's Byte Night, an annual event in which the IT industry raises money...
[September 20, 2002, 15:28]
Win98 launched with a whimper not a bang
News Many UK stores -- including Dixons and Byte -- also remained open last night but ZDNET spotted no large queues gathering in Oxford Street. The first copies went on sale in Australia where, because of the time difference, Sydney was the first city...
[June 25, 1998, 9:11]
Vote for your UK tech titans
News He has helped Intellect market broad issues and, by co-founding Byte Night in 1998, he has created one of the industry's leading charities. The 10 finalists were selected from names nominated by readers of ZDNet UK and our sister site silicon.com.
[September 8, 2004, 17:45]
New virus first to infect Macromedia Flash
News When the infected Flash movie is played, the virus displays the message "Loading.Flash.Movie.and drops a 926-byte DOS file onto the PC. It's really a proof of concept, as opposed to something that you should lie awake at night worrying about," said...
[January 9, 2002, 9:34]
London launch event
Blog We were treated to a stirring speech from founder Ken Deeks followed by a viewing of the new byte night video. Jenny Agutter then interviewed one of the young people that we've helped support through the money raised on byte night.
[July 2, 2009, 10:08]
Famous, rich and homeless
Blog It's really good to see this on prime time TV and showing some of the problems that we're trying to highlight with Byte Night. I feel re--invigorated about Byte Night as a result, if you feel the same then please, sign up now!
[June 25, 2009, 11:21]
