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Geek Trivia: Picking up the torch
ItalyI would imagine that Italy was allowed to participate in the 48 Olympics because, well they surrender in 43 rather than dragging it out like Japan and Germany. In addition, they provided some forces that fought on the side of the allies. Kind of weird, but Italy actually fought on...
Tags: career, comment on olympics, incidence, joethejet, Olympic Games, This Isn't
Discussion threads 2005-07-27

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Olympics Countdown (gadget)
Olympics Countdown is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar a countdown clock until the London 2012 Olympics. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: Olympic Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
Software downloads 2007-12-19
NBC Olympics Countdown (widget)
NBC Olympics Countdown widget will countdown the number of days, hours, minutes, seconds until the start of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: Olympic Games, NBC
Software downloads 2007-07-31
Gallery: Tech behind the Beijing Olympics
Technicians for this summer's 2008 Olympics from Beijing are training for their sport--IT. by Andy Smith
Tags: Olympic Games, TechRepublic Inc., Beijing, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Andy Smith, Olympics, tech, infrastucture
Image galleries 2008-05-09
Turin 2006 Winter Olympics (widget)
Track the Turin aka Torino 2006 Winter Olympics, and keep up to date on the latest medal counts, headlines and photos. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Winter Olympics
Software downloads 2007-07-25
Poll: Is your IT department blocking users from watching the Olympics?
With the Olympics, there's going to be video streams all day every day for two weeks. This has the potential to be a major productivity-killer. Are your organization and your IT department concerned, and will you do content filtering? Take our poll. by Jason Hiner
Tags: olympic games, tournament, information technology, strategy, management, jason hiner
Blog posts 2008-08-08
HP Volunteers, Equipment Keep Special Olympics Running
Nagano, Japan, played host to the 2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games, February 26 through March 5 - the first Special Olympics ever held in Asia. About 2,500 athletes from 86 countries competed in six categories: Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, speed skating, figure skating and floor hockey. Approximately...
Tags: Olympic Games, Hewlett-Packard Co., Athlete, Games, Personal Technology
Case studies
CIO Ira Levy: How we reduced the impact of users streaming the Olympics
Being able to watch most of the 2008 Summer Olympics streaming over the Internet has been exciting for users, but not so much for businesses and IT departments. Hear CIO Ira Levy explain how his organization used a two-pronged approach of education and technology to limit the effects of Olympic...
Tags: CIO, Podcasts, RSS, Internet, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-08-14
Samsung unveils eco-friendly 'green' phone at 2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Samsung announced its "green" mobile phone, the E200 Eco, which is made of bioplastics and has a number of environmentally-friendly and energy-reducing features. by Jason Hiner
Tags: Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-08-15
Nortel Network Case Study: Turin 2006 Winter Olympics
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 technological infrastructure that would deliver guaranteed communications throughout every event, linking...
Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Winter Olympics, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
Case studies 2006-02-02
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: NBC
NBC Olympics and GoldPocket Wireless brought the excitement of the games straight to the viewer's phone. Running from February 10th through the end of the games on February 26th, users could sign up to participate in the "NBC Olympics Trivia Challenge", vote for which athletes deserved the gold, text in...
Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Mobile, Athlete, Mobile Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Case studies
The TechRepublic Wii Olympics team
The TechRepublic Wii Olympics team.
Tags: team, Olympic Games, TechRepublic Wii
Image galleries 2006-12-08
Web athletes battle for supremacy at Cyber Olympics
Go Flips!
Tags: El Guapo, off-topic, Web
Discussion threads 2006-10-23
Infra Case Study: Sydney 2000 Olympics
Sydney is the first city hosting the Olympics to have created, with Infra's help, a central database of all security-related incidents occurring during the lead up to and duration of the Games. The security of the Games, and of the Paralympics which follow it, has been managed centrally from within...
Tags: Game, Olympic Games, Security
Case studies
British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics
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 legacy system and wanted to improve its services to British...
Tags: Olympic Games, Environment, Microsoft Corp., British Olympic Association, Workforce Management, Hardware Upgrade, Groupware, Directory Services, Human Resources, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies
A Gold Medal Performance for NBCOlympics.com
With exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast television coverage of the 2004 Olympics, NBC decided to take advantage of increases in broadband adoption to deliver real-time, interactive, and media-rich coverage of the Olympics on the www.nbcolympics.com site. NBC wanted to build a premier Olympic Web site with multimedia integration and exclusive...
Tags: Olympic Games, Performance, Akamai Technologies Inc., On-demand Computing, IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, It Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, It service Management
Case studies
Photos: A high-tech future dawns in China
Beijing is a blend of the old and the new, from Lenovo's headquarters to the massive groundwork for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Tags: Summer Olympics, blend, groundwork, Beijing, Lenovo Group Ltd., photograph, China
Image galleries 2007-04-19
cbc.ca's New HP Infrastructure Successfully Sustained 17 Million Page Views Over the Entire 2002 Winter Olympics
In recent years, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC has seen a shift in needing to provide more information about its broadcast stories on its web site. Born from a simplistic infrastructure, it wasn't robust in nature and as the company saw peaks in online traffic it exposed many technical issues....
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Data Centers, Databases, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies
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Tags: Blogging, M.W.H., comment comment
Discussion threads 2005-11-18
Images: The Olympics, live on your PC
For the first time, thousands of hours of Olympic events will be streamed live via the Internet. by CNET News.com
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., PC, Internet, Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com, news, olympics
Image galleries 2008-07-31
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