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Comment This week we interviewed Bob Cottam, the Brit working for integrator SchlumbergerSema in Salt Lake City with the task of making sure the current Winter Olympics don't suffer some kind of meltdown because of IT and... [18 Mar 2002]
Gateway facing threat of closure
News However, Waitt remained upbeat claiming the company had used its sponsorship of the Winter Olympics to generate more sales as well as dramatically slashing prices. Ailing PC company Gateway could finally be closing the... [01 Mar 2002]
The Winter Olympics 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
News The Olympics is unique in that the end date does not and will not change. It's one which Bob Cottam, SchlumbergerSema's chief integrator for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, boldly... [19 Feb 2002]
Olympians tracked by tiny computers
News Skiers' performances at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City are being tracked by tiny computing devices. The technology is being used at the Winter Olympics for the first time, although other sports,... [11 Feb 2002]
Microsoft gets Olympic gold
News Microsoft has won the rights to produce and host the official website for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. In May, start-up managed service provider Logictier pulled out of a web hosting deal for the... [28 Jun 2001]
'No business in snow business' for Olympic dropout
News Mitt Romney, chief executive of the Salt Lake Organising Committee, reportedly said: "The committee is flexible enough that we will be able to rearrange our commitment. However, we are very dependent on the website and will have to find... [09 May 2001]
Olympic resolve: Why sports dot-coms are jumping through rings for media accreditation
Comment A massive portion of the $2.6bn in revenue the Sydney Olympics garnered came from one US broadcaster, NBC. This gave them tremendous respect within the IOC as a whole and it is this respect that did as much as anything... [14 Mar 2001]
NBC site wins gold in online Olympics battle
News This was more than any other site has recorded in the history of the Olympics. The most popular destination for non-US traffic was the official site of the Games, www.olympics.com, which rated number one... [09 Oct 2000]
The predicament of the IT manager, IBM's last Olympics and Germany's e-growth
Comment In the 40 intervening years - especially since the advent of the world wide web - the IBM logo has become as much a part of the Olympics as those five rings. A number of recent surveys and reports indicate that it is now... [02 Oct 2000]
Olympics braces itself for six billion virtual visits
News The Sydney 2000 games mark the third time IBM has hosted an official Olympics website. This year's includes news, chatrooms, information sorted by sport and country, and an online shop for Olympic merchandise. [15 Sep 2000]
Morning Edition 13.09.00
News Finally, our daily 'Bill Gates Watch' takes us to Sydney, home of the Olympics and those opportunist anti-capitalist protesters. The breakdown of high-tech merger plans between the London and Frankfurt stock exchanges... [13 Sep 2000]
Olympics record set as video streamed online
News Video footage of the Olympic Games will be streamed over the internet for the first time this September, thanks to a partnership between Axient and EMC. Full-screen video content of the games will be available from NBCOlympics.com - a... [11 Aug 2000]
Telecom 99 - the final analysis
Comment Others claim the day of the telecoms Olympics is over - the industry just moves too fast, and the rate of change is more like four months than four years. This year's Telecom show in Geneva (10-16 October) represented... [15 Oct 1999]
Telecom 99: the IT communication convergence
News The telecoms Olympics - T99, in Geneva has already seen a raft of CEO addresses from stalwarts such as AT&T, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom - telecoms equipment manufacturers, and computing powerhouses. [12 Oct 1999]
IBM hands over Olympic torch to Sema
News Big Blue has been associated with the Olympics for several decades, but the 1996 summer games in Atlanta were plagued by computer failures, leading some observers to suggest the IOC would seek a replacement sponsor. [07 Dec 1998]
