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News With less than 100 days remaining before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, work on the IT systems to support the event is moving into its final phases. The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their individual project...
[13 May 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: How to manage tech complexity ¦ Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track ¦ Video: Tackling security threats ...
[08 May 2008]
Comment Of course, the Beijing Olympics hasn't happened yet, so we don't know how successful these preparations will be. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the...
[08 May 2008]
News The Olympics - which open on 8 August - will use more than 70 venues, which will host 302 events and 10,500 athletes. But each Olympic Games has its own requirements, explained Patrick Adiba, Atos Origin executive vice president of Olympics and...
[08 May 2008]
Photo Jeremy Hore, chief integrator at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, in the testing lab. silicon.com has been given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games venues and technology infrastructure.
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper With Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire's sponsorship, and anticipating increased border crossings in 2010 with the upcoming Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada, the State of Washington decided to become the first in the nation...
[03 May 2008]
Case Study Preparations for the Beijing Olympics in August are nearly complete and for Atos Origin, it's the end of an IT project that has lasted nearly four years. The contract Atos Origin has with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the largest IT...
[16 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In particular, the company wants to be ready for an expected increase in demand for its video content during the 2008 Summer Olympics. HiNet provides media services through an advanced IT environment called the HiNet Media Platform (HMP) and...
[02 Apr 2008]
News The terminal uses Sita's AirportConnect software on 330 check-in counters and will extend the software to 50 self service kiosks in time for the Olympics. Beijing's new $3bn airport terminal has completed the rollout of a major part of its IT...
[31 Mar 2008]
whitepaper To better position Canadian companies for export markets and massive events such as the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, the National Research Council commissioned this airplane view of Canada's interactive industry: the companies, the sectors and...
[27 Mar 2008]
News You can not add more racks to existing centres because there is no power for it and businesses' building data centres have been told by EDF Energy that they cannot supply what they need this side of the Olympics.
[27 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The company faced the challenge to build, design and maintain the official Winter Olympics websites, which were expected to see record traffic volumes of 300,000 concurrent users and 6 to 9 million total daily users; nearly double the normal...
[24 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy wanted to build a communication network that will keep all of the stakeholders connected at all times was the main challenge. The Organizing Committee for the Turin Winter Olympics (TOROC) required a...
[14 Jan 2008]
News In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) address, the Microsoft chairman demonstrated a slew of fashionable PCs, touted the role of computing interfaces like speech and touch, as well as announcing a partnership with NBC to jointly run the...
[07 Jan 2008]
News Spectrum allocation for the London Olympics was guaranteed as part of the government's 2004 bid to host the Games. Ofcom's consultation closes on 22 February next year and it will then work towards drawing up a draft spectrum plan for the London...
[30 Nov 2007]
News Lenovo plans to stop using the IBM logo on its products, with a complete switchover before next summer's Beijing Olympics. The Chinese company bought IBM's PC business three years ago and is currently the fourth-largest PC maker in the world.
[05 Nov 2007]
Photo Atos Origin's account manager for the London 2012 Olympics, Rob Price, told delegates about how the company intends to develop new tech talent as part of the Games' regeneration theme. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com...
[16 Oct 2007]
News The project to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympics will try to develop new talent from the region as part of the regeneration theme of the Games. Because it is a high-risk environment, the Olympics IT volunteers are usually...
[15 Oct 2007]
whitepaper The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will have the most technologically advanced network in the history of the Olympics and Paralympics. Bell Canada is delivering the first all-IP converged network at a Winter Games.
[15 Sep 2007]
News BT Group CEO Ben Verwaayen said with more than 400 million "rising consumers" in China and the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the way, many global customers are keen to take advantage of China as "a key growth market".
[07 Sep 2007]
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