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Olympics digital radio system gets funding boost
News The Home Office has provided funds to boost the capability of the emergency services' digital radio system for the 2012 London Olympics. Under a contract agreed by the National Policing and Improvement Agency and Airwave Solutions, the service will...
[November 4, 2009, 7:33]
Blunkett: Olympics 2012 could bring security storm
News At Infosecurity 2009, former home secretary David Blunkett tells ZDNet UK that a co-ordinated attack on systems linked to the Olympics could have serious repercussions for Britain.
[April 29, 2009, 14:40]
Olympics fuels demand for IT contractors
News Matthew Brown, managing director of giant group, said in a statement: "Programming skills are required during the design phase of Olympics projects. Giant group predicts the percentage of IT contractors involved with Olympics projects will increase...
[July 26, 2007, 17:19]
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. Research into a 'cashless' Olympics and the "feasibility of integrating systems for ticketing, ID authentication and transport...
[June 1, 2009, 8:48]
Olympics told to go open source
News Turin Winter Olympics, told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com the plans will be put to the IOC in a formal proposal and that the committee will then make the final decision. The IT behind the Olympics is a massive operation involving some
[December 5, 2005, 7:50]
Olympics Web site riddled with blind spots
News Organisers of the Sydney Olympics fought to prove the Games' official Web site does not discriminate against the vision-impaired during a lengthy examination of the site at a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission hearing on Tuesday.
[August 9, 2000, 13:22]
IT gets set for 2012 Olympics
News A technology roadmap for the Games, released on Friday, details how London Olympics IT supplier Atos Origin and its partners will prepare for 2012, building a network capable of streaming 6GB of sporting results every second to the watching world...
[July 27, 2009, 15:53]
2012 Olympics may see Tube mobile coverage
News In Carter's view the London Olympics is an ideal opportunity to digitise the Underground. The London Olympics in 2012, which will be the most digital Olympics in history, seems a particularly good reason for the mobile network operators to work...
[June 18, 2009, 9:17]
Security fears mean Wi-Fi won't star at the Olympics
News I think the trend is in favour of wireless, and we'll be able to do that at some future games, but not now," said Philipps, chief technology integrator for Schlumberger, which has the contract to organise IT resources for the Olympics.
[July 11, 2003, 15:28]
Beijing starts Olympics 2008 IT testing
News Guillaume Huard, sales and marketing director for Olympics and major events at Atos Origin, said: "You have one chance to get it right. You can't take that risk at the Olympics. There are currently 100 IT staff in Beijing, three-quarters of whom...
[August 2, 2007, 9:55]
BT promises super-fast broadband by Olympics
News BT has said it is ahead of schedule to roll out super-fast broadband to 10 million homes, saying the work is on course to be completed ahead of the London Olympics. Given the progress we're making, four million homes will have access to fibre by...
[December 22, 2009, 13:06]
Beijing Olympics IT on track
News The Olympics' system will relay event results and athlete information to spectators and media around the world in real-time during the competition. Atos started working on the technology for the Beijing Olympics in November 2004.
[July 17, 2007, 15:05]
London Olympics to develop local tech talent
News The project to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympics will try to develop new talent from the region as part of the regeneration theme of the Olympic Games. Because it is a high-risk environment, the Olympics IT volunteers are...
[October 15, 2007, 14:30]
360-degree view of Olympics
News It takes the power out of the hand of a TV cameraman and "gives them a view which they have full control over," Jones added.iPIX will also have a Web cam on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the course of the games which will capture images of the...
[August 31, 2000, 13:24]
Web an exhibition sport at Olympics
News ZDNet UK and ZDNet Australia team up to bring you coverage from this year's Olympics. The 20-minute video package of day-old highlights -- which will be repackaged every day and sandwiched between interviews and other Olympic news at NBCOlympics...
[September 15, 2000, 15:31]
How hackers were thwarted at the Beijing Olympics
News At the RSA Conference Europe 2008 in London, Vladan Todorovic, information-security manager for the Beijing Olympics, described how the team coped with the alarms triggered on more than 12,000 devices spread over 70 venues that were thousands of...
[October 31, 2008, 11:12]
BCS thinktank to help protect 2012 Olympics
News The BCS noted that the Internet Crime Complaint Center recently placed the UK second in the world for the number of perpetrators of cybercrime, behind only the US, and said online crime is likely to intensify ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
[December 16, 2008, 17:21]
IT suppliers shortlisted for 2012 Olympics
News A value has not yet been put on the contract but earlier this year Locog said it expects to spend £204m on IT systems, £63m on telecoms and £12.5m on Internet applications for the 2012 Olympics in London.
[September 28, 2006, 8:30]
China to launch home-grown 3G by Olympics?
News Chinese officials have insisted that the country will have a third-generation mobile network up and running by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. According to the Xinhua news agency, Xu Qin of the National Development and Reform Commission's hi-tech...
[November 6, 2006, 16:18]
UK cybercrime unit tasked with securing Olympics IT
News We are already seeing fraudulent websites exploiting the Olympics and we are considering what potential there is for hacking or extortion linked to DDoS attacks," she told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, at the IT Directors Disaster Recovery...
[January 14, 2009, 10:40]
