Olympics
RSS OlympicsOlympics diary: Super Saturday and the wrap-up
Comment Claude Philipps, chief technology integrator for Olympics IT partner Atos Origin, is keeping a diary of his Olympics experience exclusively here on silicon.com. The second week is definitely easier for... [01 Sep 2004]
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. [07 Feb 2007]
Olympics IT gets lean, mean and green
News Virtualisation is one option being considered by the Games' organisers in order to cut the number of servers used at the Olympics. The London Games will also make greater use of remote information systems than any... [05 Mar 2009]
Olympics diary: Stressed to the limits
Comment Claude Philipps, chief technology integrator for Olympics IT partner Atos Origin, is keeping a diary of his Olympics experience here on silicon.com. This is the first Olympics where all... [25 Aug 2004]
Olympics diary: Ready, set... all systems go
Comment Claude Philipps, chief technology integrator for Olympics IT partner Atos Origin, is keeping a diary of his Olympics experience here on silicon.com. As the Games get underway, Philipps spills the beans... [18 Aug 2004]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. Research into a 'cashless' Olympics and the "feasibility of integrating systems for... [29 May 2009]
Olympics braces itself for six billion virtual visits
News The Sydney 2000 games mark the third time IBM has hosted an official Olympics website. This year's includes news, chatrooms, information sorted by sport and country, and an online shop for Olympic merchandise. [15 Sep 2000]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. By the end of this year the consortium will have largely... [27 Oct 2009]
Athens Olympics: Samsung phones faster than athlete's feet
News Samsung has distributed about 14,000 mobile phones and created a special network at the Olympics this year to demonstrate how phones are often faster than feet. The phones and the network are designed to overcome one of... [19 Aug 2004]
BBC techies to strike during Olympics
News The walkouts threatened by BBC Technology staff are to go ahead - and it will be right in the middle of Auntie's coverage of the Olympics. The union said it believes the BBC will be "hard-pressed" to continue normal... [23 Jul 2004]
British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics
White Paper The British Olympic Association (BOA) needed to replace its Novell-centric operating system in the run up to the next Olympics and the London 2012 Olympic Games that follows. The BOA was unable to benefit from modern... [10 Nov 2006]
Olympics a non-starter for office workers
News While China prepares for a frenzy of co-ordinated enthusiasm for the Beijing Olympics, three-quarters of the 100 responses to the latest silicon.com poll said they would be focusing on work rather than keeping an eye on... [08 Aug 2008]
2012 London Olympics: 2,000 IT volunteers needed
News Alan Crompton, operations manager at Atos Origin for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, told silicon.com that planning for the London Games will begin about a year before the Beijing Olympics. Crompton... [06 Jul 2005]
Beijing Olympics diary: Live coverage
Comment Given the extensive preparations for the Olympics, what could possibly stop the technology working? See what happened when silicon.com editor Steve Ranger went to visit the Beijing Olympics venues. See... [12 Aug 2008]
Atos awarded 2012 Olympics
News At a signing ceremony last week, the IT services provider and the IOC have extended an existing technology partnership where Atos Origin will now also design, build and operate the IT infrastructure for the 2010 Winter... [05 Jul 2005]
