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Olympics Countdown
Downloads Olympics Countdown is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar a countdown clock until the London 2012 Olympics. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[December 19, 2007, 9:16]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
IT Suppliers Shortlisted For 2012 Olympics
Talkback Following Accenture's shambolic withdrawl from the NHS contracts - do we really want them to be involved in the infrstructure for the Olympics?
[September 29, 2006, 11:16]
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]
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]
Cbc.ca's New HP Infrastructure Successfully Sustained 17 Million Page Views Over The Entire 2002 Winter Olympics
White Papers The company needed a new, well-planned infrastructure for the cbc.ca web site, which could scale to handle special events, like the Olympics, generating huge increases in page views. In recent years, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
Securing The Olympics
Blog The chairman of the Parliamentary Olympic Group has called for the International Olympic Committee to foot the bill for both physical and information security for the London Olympics. As UK taxpayers face a security bill set to spiral to over £1bn...
[April 24, 2007, 13:13]
Samsung Shows Off Wireless Olympics
News Samsung has distributed about 14,000 cellphones and created a special network at the Olympics this year to demonstrate how phones are often faster than feet. The phones and the network are designed to overcome one of the nagging problems in the...
[August 19, 2004, 9:05]
Olympics Arms Against Virus Threat
News They're also concerned about viruses and worm attacks that could cripple the Olympics' data network. Atos, which first took charge as the primary systems integrator for the Olympic network for the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, has a contract with...
[July 23, 2004, 8:20]
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]
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]
NBC Olympics Countdown
Downloads NBC Olympics Countdown widget will countdown the number of days, hours, minutes, seconds until the start of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[July 31, 2007, 12:23]
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]
Turin 2006 Winter Olympics
Downloads Track the Turin (aka Torino) 2006 Winter Olympics, and keep up to date on the latest medal counts, headlines and photos. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[July 25, 2007, 8:55]
