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Beijing Olympics IT on track
News Atos started working on the technology for the Beijing Olympics in November 2004. The Olympics' system will relay event results and athlete information to spectators and media around the world in real-time during the competition.
[July 17, 2007, 15:05]
Beijing starts Olympics 2008 IT testing
News There are currently 100 IT staff in Beijing, three-quarters of whom are Chinese, and testing begins this month for the IT supporting 12 Olympics events in 11 different venues. Work on the IT infrastructure for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is...
[August 2, 2007, 9:55]
Spammers gearing up for Beijing Olympics
News The official title of the body tasked to oversee the upcoming Olympics is the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Online scammers are expected to exploit the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, opening in a month's time...
[July 8, 2008, 9:27]
Applications tone up for Beijing Olympics
Blog Given the impending start of the Beijing Olympics on August the eighth we can no doubt brace ourselves for a flurry of news themed around the fact that XYZ Ltd’s latest application has been refined and toned up to support the technology needs of...
[July 25, 2008, 11:37]
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]
Beijing Olympics ticket system crashes
News Only half an hour after the start of second-round ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the online booking system broke down. In a statement published on Tuesday night, the Beijing Olympic Committee said they had decided to...
[November 1, 2007, 8:30]
'08 Summer Olympics Travel Widget
Downloads Travelwidgets.com presents the 2008 Olympics Travel Widget, using our popular Ultimate Travel widget format, you can book travel and purchase tickets to the Beijing China Olympics. Choose from the hotels tab with Beijing presets to Air tickets or...
[July 3, 2008, 8:00]
Beijing Taxi Guide
Downloads Going to the Olympics and feeling lost in Beijing? The program contains over 1,000 listings, including Olympics venues, it's probably in here. Beijing Taxi Guide is a directory filled with big, bold-faced addresses in a Chinese that show the...
[August 22, 2008, 8:00]
London 2012 embraces Web 2.0 technology
News Work on the main IT infrastructure supporting the 2012 games won't begin until after the Beijing Olympics next summer, but the London Organising Committee (Locog) is already looking at a range of interactive Web 2.0-based projects.
[August 2, 2007, 9:18]
Olympics told to go open source
News Massimo Dossetto, IT security architect for the 2006 Turin games, said: "There is no wireless in Turin [for next year's Winter Olympics] but there will be in Beijing. Turin Winter Olympics, told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com the plans will be...
[December 5, 2005, 7:50]
London 2012: IT Volunteers needed
News Alan Crompton, operations manager at Atos Origin for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, said that planning for the London Games will begin about a year before the Beijing Olympics. Crompton said the fact that the Greenfield East London Olympics site...
[July 7, 2005, 9:05]
BBC to boost web-TV offering for London 2012
News The corporation laid out plans for London 2012 that will see it "significantly" increase its web-TV capabilities, with "many more" online video streams than the six it offered during the Beijing Olympics.
[October 24, 2008, 12:46]
Play up, China, and play the game
Leader Baron de Coubertin's maxim will be put to test at the Beijing Olympics in two years' time. The father of the modern Olympics died decades too early to experience the singular delights of a standards committee.
[June 7, 2006, 15:45]
Google Translate comes to the iPhone
News Asked whether the translation service's release was timed to coincide with the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the spokesperson said the timing was "serendipitous", adding: "We launch things when they're ready.
[August 8, 2008, 10:37]
Beijing2008 Helper
Downloads To share the joy of Beijing Olympics Games 2008, this application is free. It is a little helper application to help spectators visting Beijing. It provides the following functions: Visitor map to locate the competition venues For details of the...
[August 21, 2008, 8:00]
Safeguarding the Olympic Games
News Atos Origin discusses the lessons learned from handling security at the Beijing Olympics, and how they will be applied to London 2012.
[November 7, 2008, 15:21]
Travel Beijing, China. Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps.
Downloads Table of Contents General: About | Name | Economy | Demographics | Climate | History | Politics | Sleep | Cope | Stay Safe Maps: China | Central Beijing | Districts | Forbidden City | Subway | Olympic Venues | Fortifications | Great Wall...
[March 14, 2008, 7:00]
Internet giants agree Beijing 'code of conduct'
News Google's letter said that the search giant will not provide the Chinese government with "any sensitive personal information regarding American athletes, journalists and tourists who use the internet while they are in China during the Olympics...
[August 6, 2008, 10:33]
Lenovo to drop IBM brand
News Lenovo plans to stop using the IBM logo on its products, with a complete switchover before next summer's Beijing Olympics. Lenovo is running a "Best Engineered PCs" advertising campaign and plans to use global sponsorship of the Beijing 2008 Summer...
[November 2, 2007, 16:22]
China's homegrown 3G may overcome bumpy start
News Initially slated for wide deployment during the Beijing Olympics, connectivity issues including dropped network connections and spotty coverage prevented China Mobile — the country's largest mobile operator and the one leading the TD-SCDMA rollout...
[August 5, 2008, 8:36]
