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Behind the scenes: Olympic tech
News No, it's the Sydney 2000 Olympic Technology Command Centre -- an anonymous city location with a security force so hefty that gaining entry involves bag searches, metal detectors and an escort through various security doors.
[September 20, 2000, 13:46]
Olympic surfers get a shock down under
News Visitors attempting to reach the official Olympic Games Web site may get a surprise if their typing isn't up to scratch. Australian activists, under the banner of the Sydney Independent Media Centre, have nabbed the address www.olympisc.com and are...
[September 25, 2000, 15:58]
Net falls short of Olympic gold
News As the torch heads closer to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, organisers and broadcasters once again fear they will be burned by the Net. In a conference held in Lausanne, Switzerland, last December, the IOC brought together the...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Sohu.com Helps Beijing Spread Olympic Spirit With the Latest Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series
White Papers The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games official website needed to undertake the massive task of hosting news on all aspects of the Games, including event calendar, results, athlete information for the media, and more.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
BBC World Service hit by Olympic restrictions
News The worldwide ban on streaming Olympic audio and video coverage over the Internet has forced the BBC World Service to stop broadcasting news and sports programmes over the Web. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ban prevents live Olympic...
[September 14, 2000, 16:18]
London's Olympic Park begins to take shape
News The Olympic Park in the London borough of Newham will be the hub of 2012 Games, which will rely on 900 servers and 8,000 computers to relay results of the athletic battles to the watching world. Behind the multi-storey shopping centre, the Olympic...
[March 19, 2009, 15:26]
Gymnasts limber up for the next Olympic Games with online video analysis site
News Britain's Olympic gymnastics team are to get broadband Internet connections and a video-enabled Web site in a programme designed to streamline training. The British gymnastics team is in training for the Olympic games in Athens 2004 and the...
[April 25, 2003, 15:35]
IBM's training for Olympic marathon
News Avid Olympic fans in the United States and Europe helped drive the traffic on the Web site to a world record rate of 103,429 hits per minute. IBM Olympic Internet project executive John Davidson, in a masterpiece of understatement, said "given that...
[July 13, 2000, 16:02]
Q&A: An IT job of Olympic proportions
News The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Schlumberger the contract to manage IT resources for the games after longtime contractor IBM suffered several embarrassing glitches that led to long delays in communicating results for key events...
[July 11, 2003, 10:50]
Olympic visitors to Oz can stay connected
News Sports fans who travel to Australia to watch this summer's Olympic Games won't have to leave their GSM phone behind. Cellhire, a mobile phone rental company with offices in Europe and the US, announced Wednesday that it will offer visitors to...
[August 30, 2000, 13:29]
Nortel still OK with 2012 Olympic commitments, OK?
Blog I'm sure you will have heard about Nortel's decision to restructure its business operations and will have questions about how this might affect our involvement with LOCOG [the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games] and London 2012.
[January 15, 2009, 15:16]
IOC bans online Olympic coverage for next ten years
News The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Monday that Internet sites are banned from showing streamed audio or video content of the Olympic Games for the next ten years. Until Web sites can guarantee to restrict access to people within...
[December 5, 2000, 15:00]
British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics
White Papers The British Olympic Association (BOA) needed to replace its Novell-centric operating system in the run up to the next Olympics and the London 2012 Olympic Games that follows. The BOA was unable to benefit from modern messaging services with its...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Autonomy to power Olympic surveillance
News Technology that was originally developed to help companies to organise and access information on their IT systems will play a role in attempting to prevent terrorist attacks on the Olympic Games this summer.
[April 23, 2004, 15:20]
Salt Lake City Olympic Screensaver
Downloads This screensaver will count down the days left until the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Games while displaying random Winter Olympic imagery.
[January 23, 2002, 3:17]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment To download and watch the Olympic Games from NBC, Windows Vista Media Centre is required (Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate). However, it does appear that it will also be possible to steam video of the Olympic Games from MSN using Silverlight...
[July 4, 2008, 12:55]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment M$ has to do everything it can to force people to use vista, as they aren't using it voluntarily. Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot more often now-a-days, and I appreciate their efforts.
[July 25, 2008, 10:10]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment I think I'm going to hurl.
[July 1, 2008, 15:51]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment I can't imagine anybody will folk out the hundreds of pounds on upgrading their OS just so they can download the olympic games. I get the feeling they chose the wrong event, the olympics are widely covered, the BBC will cover all events live and I...
[July 4, 2008, 18:27]
Behind the Scenes of the First All-IP Converged Network for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
White Papers Bell Canada is delivering the first all-IP converged network at a Winter Games. In selecting partners, Bell Canada and VANOC were looking for a high degree of commitment and proven capabilities in designing and deploying some of the world's most...
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
