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]
Microsoft Silverlight Coming To Nokia Mobiles
News Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
It's Only $44.6 Billion...
Blog You don't get an Olympic gold medallist by taking the silver and bronze runners and tying their legs together. I can think up any number of scenarios for the future of web services, mixing in advertising, media delivery and all the rest, and I don...
[February 2, 2008, 14:45]
Sydney 2000: The Day They Banned The Net Down Under
News Video streaming of Olympic events is forbidden on the Internet this year. The International Olympic committee (IOC) managing the event has sold £1.45bn of exclusive broadcasting rights to twenty world-wide customers; but the Games' Web presence...
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
Q&A: An IT Job Of Olympic Proportions
News Welcome to Athens, where Philipps is chief technology integrator for Schlumberger for the 2004 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Schlumberger the contract to manage IT resources for the games after longtime contractor...
[July 11, 2003, 10:50]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback Your comparison with " Olympic Sports " has me completely baffled. Microsoft manufacture Windows and "bundle" their own type of Media Player. The same applies to people who purchase the Windows OS with Media Player.
[April 5, 2005, 12:19]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog If this is tied in to the Media Centre, then it's only Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate that will provide coverage. NBC are partnering with M$ to provide full online coverage of the Olymic Games in Beijing this summer but, wait for it, only...
[July 1, 2008, 15:26]
Athens Prepares Olympic Cybersecurity
News The IT for the 60 venues, 10,500 athletes and 21,500 media representatives includes 10,500 PCs and 1,000 servers. As such the platforms of choice are Unix and Windows, with Linux not getting a look-in.
[May 21, 2004, 11:00]
