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News Atos Origin is the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games, overseeing the infrastructure which features 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers and 5,000 results systems terminals, as well as a suite of applications for managing the games and publishing the...
[13 May 2008]
News Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint. But each Olympic Games has its own requirements, explained Patrick Adiba, Atos Origin executive vice president of...
[08 May 2008]
News Beijing's new $3bn airport terminal has completed the rollout of a major part of its IT infrastructure ahead of the Olympic Games in August. Beijing is due to host the Olympic Games in August and has built the new terminal at Beijing Capital...
[31 Mar 2008]
News James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told silicon.com the revised scheme is likely to cut £1bn off its £5.4bn price tag, that power station workers are likely to join airport workers and Olympic security staff as the...
[10 Mar 2008]
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...
[04 Mar 2008]
News This temporary Olympic blip and the ageing infrastructure in London are creating the need for data centres elsewhere. Power supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building...
[27 Feb 2008]
News In London commercial power is being capped until the Olympic Games, this is a really big business problem because companies are not able to meet demand in the same way. Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily gobble up to 100...
[30 Jan 2008]
News The organisers pledged to make the event the most environmentally friendly Olympic Games ever, although no specific IT programmes have been laid out yet. In the face of all that economic gloom however, many retail and leisure organisations lit the...
[19 Dec 2007]
News Ofcom has published a consultation document on the spectrum requirements for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ofcom's chief executive, Ed Richards, said in a statement: "We can't see it, hear it or touch it but radio spectrum is absolutely essential...
[30 Nov 2007]
News Lenovo is running a "Best Engineered PCs" advertising campaign and plans to use global sponsorship of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games to establish its brand more firmly. Lenovo plans to stop using the IBM logo on its products, with a complete...
[05 Nov 2007]
News And with huge projects on the way - such as the London 2012 Olympic Games and the capital's Crossrail network - the demand for IT skills in these areas will continue to rise. The proportion of tech contract workers in the financial services sector...
[31 Oct 2007]
News The Olympic Games IT is delivered by the official technology supplier Atos Origin with a team of around 3,500 people - 80 per cent of whom are volunteers. Work has already started early on the IT project for the London 2012 Olympic Games even...
[15 Oct 2007]
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...
[03 Sep 2007]
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...
[01 Aug 2007]
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...
[01 Aug 2007]
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...
[26 Jul 2007]
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...
[16 Jul 2007]
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]
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...
[02 Nov 2006]
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.
[01 Nov 2006]
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