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Comment I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT team tasked with getting the technology infrastructure ready for the opening on 8 August.
[08 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]
Photo silicon.com has been given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games venues and technology infrastructure. Each testing team includes workers from Atos Origin, the Beijing Olympic organising committee and other partners such as Omega.
[07 May 2008]
Case Study The contract Atos Origin has with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the largest IT contract in sport and Beijing will be the fourth games where the company has run the IT infrastructure - the first being the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt...
[16 Apr 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]
whitepaper The company is a leader in online news and original journalism, with a wider outreach than any of the newspapers in the USA. The company faced the challenge to build, design and maintain the official Winter Olympics websites, which were expected to...
[24 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]
whitepaper The Nortel IP Telephony network provides communications between TOROC headquarters, the international broadcasting and press center, the Olympic villages and the competition sites. The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy wanted to build a...
[14 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]
Photo Pictured here is Atos Origin's account manager for the London 2012 Olympic Games, Rob Price, who gave a presentation to delegates on how the company intends to develop new tech talent as part of the Games' regeneration theme.
[31 Oct 2007]
Photo Atos Origin is the official technology supplier to the Olympic Games and work has already started on the preparations for London 2012. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, as he welcomes delegates to the fourth annual CIO...
[16 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]
whitepaper Bell Canada is delivering the first all-IP converged network at a Winter Games. In selecting partners, Bell Canada and VANOC were looking for a high degree of commitment and proven capabilities in designing and deploying some of the world's most...
[15 Sep 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]
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