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Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

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.

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

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...

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track

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.

Tags: project, infrastructure, olympic

[07 May 2008]

Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 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...

Tags: security, servers, infrastructure, olympics

[16 Apr 2008]

Beijing airport gets in shape for Olympics

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...

Tags: flights, heathrow, olympics, beijing

[31 Mar 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

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...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia

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...

Tags: nokia, adobe, silverlight, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

Power shortages squeeze London's data centres

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...

Tags: data centres, energy, london, man

[27 Feb 2008]

Performance Testing Solution for a Winter Olympic Website

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...

Tags: software engineering

[24 Feb 2008]

Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?

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...

Tags: green, accenture, data centre, savings

[30 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Turin 2006 Winter Olympics

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...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 Jan 2008]

Top 10 retail IT stories of the year

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...

Tags: iplayer, retail, bbc, ibm

[19 Dec 2007]

Ofcom grapples with 2012 Olympic spectrum

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...

Tags: olympics, spectrum, ofcom, london

[30 Nov 2007]

Lenovo dropping IBM logo two years early

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...

Tags: lenovo, laptop, thinkpad, ibm

[05 Nov 2007]

Credit crunch hits tech contractors

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...

Tags: contractor, london, engineering, olympics

[31 Oct 2007]

Photos of the month - October 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.

Tags: photos, zune, virtual worlds, games

[31 Oct 2007]

Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum

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...

Tags: cio jury, cio50, neil cameron, paul coby

[16 Oct 2007]

London 2012 to promote local tech talent

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...

Tags: atos origin, cio forum, london 2012

[15 Oct 2007]

Behind the Scenes of the First All-IP Converged Network for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

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...

Tags: ip technologies, converged, canada, games

[15 Sep 2007]

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]

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