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Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes

whitepaper The scale of the project and number of parties involved required Beijing MTR to maintain tight control over costs. In February 2005, three private sector entities entered into a public-private partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government to...

Tags: asset management

[15 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News Integration is what the team in Beijing is doing most of the time, including project management, systems architecture and design, integration testing and IT security. With less than 100 days remaining before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

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. Follow the link for photos of the Beijing venues and IT infrastructure.

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 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...

Tags: security, servers, infrastructure, olympics

[16 Apr 2008]

The Bank Selects Cisco Solutions for the National Data Center and IBM to Integrate Network Systems

whitepaper The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of the four largest state-owned banks in China, has chosen Cisco as its networking solution provider for the data center project in Beijing. IBM worked collaboratively with Cisco for the Beijing data center...

Tags: infrastructure management

[16 Nov 2007]

London 2012 to promote local tech talent

News Work has already started early on the IT project for the London 2012 Olympic Games even before the 2008 Beijing Olympics is out of the way. The project to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympics will try to develop new talent from...

Tags: atos origin, cio forum, london 2012

[15 Oct 2007]

China's virtual plans are out of this world

News CRD is supported by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and Entropia Universe - managed by Swedish company Mindark - predicts it will generate more than $1bn annually from the partnership with CRD.

Tags: china, entropia universe, entropia, second life

[06 Jun 2007]

Microsoft to expand document formats

News The Beijing Information Technology Institute, one of the creators of UOF, will participate in the open source project, according to a Microsoft representative. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a...

Tags: china, odf, open source, file

[21 May 2007]

Intel demos next-gen memory chip

News Intel CTO Justin Rattner demonstrated a 128-bit sample of Alverstone at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing and will start sending samples to customers in the first half of this year. Intel is working on the project with ST Microelectronics.

Tags: flash, memory, intel

[18 Apr 2007]

Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?

Comment I've written and read a lot in the past few years about how the 2008 Beijing Olympics are very much about China's coming of age in terms of being a modern economy and in certain areas like technology.

Tags: epassports, 2012 olympics, 3g

[07 Feb 2007]

2008 Olympics - the IT ground work in China

Comment Some of these cities are receiving major makeovers - Beijing for example has closed down large parts of the Forbidden City in a bid to revamp it in time for the Games (much to the frustration of some tourists).

Tags: beijing, olympics, china

[31 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 18

Comment Kaiser, my tech journo friend back in Beijing, told me this would be an impressive visit. It's won some impressive contracts over the last year or so - notably beating Marconi as one of a dozen or so vendors to BT's 21CN next-generation network...

Tags: china

[27 Jun 2006]

"Changfeng PC" Project Relies on Intel Architecture to Bring Benefits of IT to Rural Community in Beijing

whitepaper Communities, institutions, societies and governments are acutely concerned with the consequences of unmonitored Web access. In several countries, public and private organisations are statutorily required to ensure Web monitoring and filtering.

Tags: filtering, block, public sector, productivity

[05 May 2006]

HAANSOFT Accelerates Linux Adoption With Intel Processor-Based Platforms

whitepaper As a government agency, the Beijing Zhongguancun (Haidian) Science Park Administrative Committee (BZHSPAC) deals mainly with administrative affairs where there is a large volume of documentation and an extensive paper trail.

Tags: automation, committee, community, demand

[05 May 2006]

Tianjin Datang Panshan Power Unifies Business

whitepaper The Tianjin Datang Panshan Power Generation Company in Ji county, Tianjin, is the largest electricity provider in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan power grid. The company strengthened business management by implementing a range of Oracle E-Business...

Tags: activities, business management, oracle financials, consolidate

[07 Mar 2006]

Photos: The tech behind the Olympic Games

Photo For the Turin games there are 450 Intel-based servers and Unix boxes, 4,700 PCs, 700 printers, 1,000 commentator terminals and 800 intranet terminals - although a switch to open source is planned for the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics.

Tags: olympic games, atos origin

[02 Dec 2005]

Integration of GIS, GPS and GSM for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Information Management Planning

whitepaper Furthermore, Beijing Jiaotong University has carried out Qinghai-Tibet Railway information management planning (QTIMP) based mainly on the G3 technique integration: geographic information system (GIS), global positioning system (GPS), and global...

Tags: railway, transport, plan, carried

[08 Nov 2005]

Is open source coming to a mobile near you?

News The group's in-person meeting will be in Beijing, in the country where much mobile phone research and development takes place, Cohen said. OSDL hopes the work will reproduce the success of an earlier effort pooling work by Linux software and...

Tags: mobile linux initiative, osdl, open source, linux

[17 Oct 2005]

Linux: Novell aims for the far east

News The company will open a research centre in Beijing this year, which will focus on Linux desktop research and development, Linux internationalisation and localisation and high-performance Linux. It has also launched a Chinese language site for...

Tags: novell, linux, china

[18 Aug 2005]

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