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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]
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]
2003 World Almanac - Olympics & Misc. Sports
Downloads Get the Olympics & Misc. Become an "Instant Reference Expert" on the Olympics and Miscellaneous Sports! Town Compass® presents The 2003 World Almanac - Olympics & Miscellaneous Sports.Whether you are a sports fan, writer, historian, or just need...
[June 19, 2003, 8:00]
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]
2003 World Almanac - Olympics & Sports Personalities
Downloads Become an "Instant Reference Expert" on the Olympics and Sports Personalities! Town Compass presents The 2003 World Almanac - Olympics & Sports Personalities.Whether you are a sports fan, writer, historian, or just need immediate access to a...
[March 15, 2003, 6:00]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Blunkett: Olympics 2012 could bring security storm
Video 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, 9:14]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
