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China to get in-flight mobile by 2009

News Three "demonstrator" aircraft are also being readied for the Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008. China's Shenzhen Airlines has fitted its planes with communications technology that will allow passengers to use their mobile phones to make voice...

Tags: china, in-flight, onair

[03 Sep 2007]

Gold-Medal Performance: Ski Innovator Increases Its Own Operational Agility With the Right Technology Tools

whitepaper The Madshus Web site highlights Olympic skiers - sponsored by the company - who have achieved glory on the slopes. It also features articles galore about training for the ski season. Until 2005, Madshus produced approximately 110,000 pairs of skis...

Tags: windows xp, demand, microsoft dynamics ax, entry

[30 Aug 2007]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT testing underway

News Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begins this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August 2008. To minimise this risk all the Olympic volunteers - IT and non-IT - go through rigorous police background...

Tags: atos origin, olympic games, beijing

[01 Aug 2007]

London 2012 embraces web 2.0 and green IT

News The London 2012 Olympic Games organisers are exploring energy-saving green IT initiatives and embracing web 2.0 technologies such as social networking for the event. Organisers have also set out to make London 2012 the most environmentally friendly...

Tags: olympic games, atos origin, london 2012

[01 Aug 2007]

Olympic demand for IT contractors

News With around five years to go to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, demand for IT contractors for the event is accelerating. The survey was conducted by contractor services provider, giant group.giant group said significant numbers of software...

Tags: it contractors, olympics

[26 Jul 2007]

Beijing Olympics IT infrastructure races on

News Hore said the biggest challenge the company faced was an "absolutely unmovable deadline" to roll out the Olympic systems which meant there was only one chance to get the IT infrastructure right. Next on the IT agenda is a system testing phase...

Tags: infrastructure, it, china, gold

[16 Jul 2007]

Case Study: Spiros Louis Stadium

whitepaper Named after the winner of the Marathon of the First Modern Olympic Games, the Spiros Louis Stadium had been renovated as one of the major venues for the 2004 Athens games. Founded in 1924, the A.E.K. F.C.has won 11 Championships, 13 Cups, 2...

Tags: linux - open source, games, league, cup

[15 May 2007]

Association Uses CRM Solution to Prepare for 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

whitepaper Tourism Whistler is the official marketing body for Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, representing more than 7,000 members who own, manage, and operate properties or businesses on resort lands. An old contact management system made it difficult...

Tags: database management, marketing, crm, microsoft crm

[22 Jan 2007]

Visa to launch 'wave and pay' cards in UK

News Sandra Alzetta, Visa Europe Senior VP for consumer market development, said the aim is for a cashless Olympic Games in London in 2012. Visa is planning to introduce contactless 'wave and pay' debit cards to replace low-value cash transactions...

[24 Nov 2006]

British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics

whitepaper The British Olympic Association (BOA) needed to replace its Novell-centric operating system in the run up to the next Olympics and the London 2012 Olympic Games that follows. The BOA was unable to benefit from modern messaging services with its...

Tags: infrastructure management, active directory, directory, olympic

[09 Nov 2006]

The Cloud descends on Little Chef

News Little Chef customers will soon be able surf the web wirelessly while tucking into their Olympic breakfasts after the roadside restaurant chain signed a deal with The Cloud. All of Little Chef's 232 countrywide cafés have rolled out wireless...

Tags: wi-fi, cloud, the cloud, chefs

[02 Nov 2006]

Accenture wins London Olympic tech race

News The organiser of the 2012 Olympic Games in London has picked Accenture to run the event's back-office systems. These IT systems are provided by Atos Origin, the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for London 2012.

Tags: 2012 olympics

[01 Nov 2006]

Open source is a "red herring", says Newham CIO

News Steel is in the throes of preparing the borough's network for the Olympic Games, which will be held in Stratford. That universal access may be extended to Olympic visitors when the games launch in six years' time, depending on discussions with the...

Tags: open source, newham

[20 Oct 2006]

3Com Global Services Deploys Innovative Gigabit Wireless, and Power Over Ethernet Solution for Qatar's Olympics Training Program

whitepaper ASPIRE Academy of Sports Excellence is an elite sports educational institute commissioned by the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar to identify promising student-athletes and develop them into Olympic champions.

Tags: ethernet, core, ethernet, gigabit

[11 Oct 2006]

2012 London Olympics IT partners shortlisted

News Accenture, BT Global Services, IBM and LogicaCMG have all been shortlisted for a contract to provide IT systems for the London Organising Committee (Locog) for the 2012 Olympic Games. The contract covers the internal back-office technology systems...

Tags: 2012 olympics

[27 Sep 2006]

Tourism Vancouver Enhances Employee Communication and Productivity

whitepaper Tourism Vancouver needs to prepare for the upcoming 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and having the right IT infrastructure in place is a crucial element of the groundwork. To meet these needs, the organization decided to upgrade from the Microsoft...

Tags: microsoft windows, operating system, microsoft exchange, exchange server

[20 Sep 2006]

2008 Olympics - the IT ground work in China

Comment For example take the Olympic venues - if you leave it two or three weeks you can see massive changes. Huawei's director of corporate communications, Fu Jun, says: "The Olympic Games is an exciting honour for China.

Tags: beijing, olympics, china

[31 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 3

Comment Post-interview, Susan and I have a couple of hours to kill before the big interview of the day with two men from the Olympic Committee and Atos Origin. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind...

Tags: china

[08 Jun 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 2

Comment Part of the city is being revamped for the Olympic Games in 2008. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here.

Tags: china

[08 Jun 2006]

Mobile 365 Provides Interactive Voting for London's 2012 Olympic Bid

whitepaper Mobile 365, the global leader in mobile messaging and data services, partnered with London 2012 to deploy major campaign that encouraged Londoners to "back the bid" to bring the 2012 Olympics to the city.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, london, enabled, british

[17 May 2006]

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