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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]
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]
Winning News From NBC At The Winter Olympics: New York, New York
White Papers The broadcast and full coverage of Olympic events and their resulting news stories as they happened required on-site access to editing and composing tools as well as the vast NBC database of video information.
[January 15, 2005, 2:00]
A Faster, Leaner Olympics Online
News ESPN.com, for example, hosts a history of past Winter Olympics, athlete bios and diaries. A friendlier time schedule for US viewers and the presence of the first credentialled Internet Olympics press corps promise to bring some useful information...
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
Athens Prepares Olympic Cybersecurity
News The International Olympics Committee (IOC) outsourced its IT to Atos Origin for the four winter and summer games that began with the Salt Lake City winter games in 2002 and will end with Beijing in 2008.
[May 21, 2004, 11:00]
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. Massimo Dossetto, IT security architect for the 2006 Turin games, said...
[December 5, 2005, 7:50]
Sydney 2000: Please Let It Go Smoothly
News Rather than going for beta-test technology this year, IBM is stressing that the technology is tried and tested: it touts the fact that INFO runs on servers that are already used by many prominent Web businesses, and reminds potential customers of...
[September 12, 2000, 14:03]
Biathletes Get Wireless Weapon At Olympics
News At this year's Winter Olympics, wireless will do all but the strategising. Marathon runners have already been using the same kind of wireless device during the Summer Olympics. Split times in biathlon races have always been done by hand at the...
[February 9, 2002, 6:30]
The IOC Gives The Web A Sporting Chance
News The respect they gained within the IOC as a whole did as much as anything to get them Winter Olympics accreditation. For the time being, the likes of Sportal.com and Sports.com are happy just to get to go to the 2002 Winter Olympics and if that...
[February 4, 2002, 10:11]
Net Falls Short Of Olympic Gold
News The two companies had collaborated on Olympics coverage in Sydney under a deal that was expected to extend through the Winter Games. Forrester Research analyst Eric Scheirer, who wrote a report titled No Gold for These Online Olympics, criticised...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Good Night Mr. Snoozlebrg 2
Downloads Snoozleberg sleepwalk through the night at the Winter Olympics, a prehistoric plateau, the deep seas and a mad scientists lab. Mr. Snoozleberg is the perfect diplomat: charming, likable, and inoffensive.
[July 15, 2006, 8:46]
Performance Testing Solution For A Winter Olympic Website
White Papers The company faced the challenge to build, design and maintain the official Winter Olympics websites, which were expected to see record traffic volumes of 300,000 concurrent users and 6 to 9 million total daily users; nearly double the normal...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Washington State First To Provide A U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License
White Papers With Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire's sponsorship, and anticipating increased border crossings in 2010 with the upcoming Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada, the State of Washington decided to become the first in the nation...
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Every Moment Of Every Sport - Delivering A New Experience In Wireless Usage
White Papers Australian athletes used the application at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002. Whether its supporting a rugby team, watching the cricket, or cheering on the local tennis stars at this year's Wimbledon, it's undisputable - sport enthusiasts...
[March 12, 2005, 2:00]
Behind The Scenes Of The First All-IP Converged Network For The Vancouver 2010 Olympic And Paralympic Winter Games
White Papers The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will have the most technologically advanced network in the history of the Olympics and Paralympics. Bell Canada is delivering the first all-IP converged network at a Winter Games.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
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]
Beijing Starts Olympics 2008 IT Testing
News Work on the IT infrastructure for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is already underway and work on the London 2012 IT systems will begin after Beijing, in November 2008. Guillaume Huard, sales and marketing director for Olympics and major events...
[August 2, 2007, 9:55]
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]
US Report: IBM Backs Freeware Apache In New App Server
News This Autumn, IBM will follow up with the release of an Enterprise JavaBean version of WebSphere as well as a version based on the high-availability technology IBM created for its Nagano Winter Olympics Web site.
[June 22, 1998, 6:35]
Olympics Arms Against Virus Threat
News 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 the International Olympic Committee to build networks for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy and the...
[July 23, 2004, 8:20]
