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News Xerox will be burning faster than the Olympic Torch in Sydney this September, as it produces CD-ROMs for the first 100 per cent digital archive of the Olympic Games. During the two-week event, 1,000 electronic results books will be created for...
[31 Aug 2000]
News With around five years to go to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, demand for IT contractors for the event is accelerating. The survey was conducted by contractor services provider, giant group.giant group said significant numbers of software...
[26 Jul 2007]
Comment Last week, online sports media received a boost when Sportal.com and Sports.com gained official International Olympic Committee (IOC) accreditation to cover the 2002 winter games. For example, Sports.com built and maintained the French Olympic...
[14 Mar 2001]
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]
whitepaper After the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, the Atos Origin Operations Manager set about researching an alternative product. To help the IT systems run as efficiently as possible at the Salt Lake City Games a problem management system was used.
[14 Mar 2006]
News No business in snow business' for Olympic dropout http://www.silicon.com/a44295 Olympic resolve: Why sports dot-coms are jumping through rings for media accreditation http://www.silicon.com/a43255 IBM hands over Olympic torch to Sema http://www...
[28 Jun 2001]
whitepaper 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 messaging services with its...
[09 Nov 2006]
whitepaper And it provides members of the Olympic Family with a rich and abundant source of information. Info '98 serves as the central nervous system for the entire Nagano Games Information Retrieval System. They can get up-to-the-minute stats, scores, and...
[10 Jul 2004]
Photo The city of Turin close to the Alps in the north of Italy is gearing up to host the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, starting on 10 February. Biometric fingerprint-controlled door locks will guard entry to the Olympics IT control room run by the...
[02 Dec 2005]
News The police in Salt Lake City are helping the Winter Olympic officials to fight crime with facial recognition and finger print scanners. The system, called Ibis, can take pictures of potential troublemakers remotely and compare the picture with an...
[14 Feb 2002]
News The organiser of the 2012 Olympic Games in London has picked Accenture to run the event's back-office systems. These IT systems are provided by Atos Origin, the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for London 2012.
[01 Nov 2006]
Comment With Team GB languishing between Zimbabwe and Poland in the Olympic medals table, looking enviously up the rankings at the likes of Romania and the sporting titans of Slovakia, you could be forgiven for looking for a little light relief.
[18 Aug 2004]
News Sema Group has won the race to take over from IBM as the principal technology sponsor of the Olympic Games. Commenting on the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to choose the company, Sema Group CEO, Pierre Bonelli, called the...
[07 Dec 1998]
Leader It seems 2,000 IT volunteers - admittedly mainly at a low level - will help make the Games happen because they buy in to that great Olympic ideal of volunteerism. So let's hope a decision about London - an issue for the International Olympic...
[20 May 2004]
News UK online bookmaker Betfair is offering in-running betting during a range of Olympic events - promising to even take 'after-the-gun' bets during the Men's 100m. The company is keen that the athletes won't be only ones being put through their paces...
[13 Aug 2004]
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 Compaq has been approached by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a potential sponsor for the Olympic Games. The IOC's deal with IBM is due to end after the Sydney 2000 games and they are seeking replacements for the 38-year-old partnership.
[27 Oct 1998]
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]
whitepaper The IBM data management family of products are a major part of making the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games a success. DB2 on an OS/390 is the major repository for the Games. DB2 Universal Database is the database management product behind the INFO kiosks.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper The successful operation of the Olympic Games depends on real-time data: race times and scores, medal standings, athlete biographies, weather updates, and more. As the official data networking services supplier for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in...
[24 Feb 2004]
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