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One-year countdown to Olympics begins
News With 365 days to go before the mega sporting event opens on Aug. 8 next year, preparation work on the IT infrastructure enters critical testing phase.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management
Lenovo preps for grueling Olympic tests
News The vendor gears for 95 percent of its hardware to be tested next month in an intensive tech rehearsal conducted by the Beijing 2008 organizing committee.
Tags: Personal Computers, Servers, Support, IT training, Infrastructure/architecture management, Notebook, Environment, Lenovo Group Ltd., marketing, IBM ThinkCentre
Beijing 2008 gets RFID tickets, enterprise search
News This year's Olympics will pave the way for search capabilities in intranet applications, and radio frequency identification ticketing to beat counterfeiters.
Olympics: Going the green distance
News The Chinese government, Olympic officials and technology team all have a hand in making Beijing 2008 one of the "greenest" in the history of the Games.
Tags: Green IT, Servers, Infrastructure/architecture management, remote access, energy efficiency, KPMG Consulting Inc., China, Beijing, information technology, Olympic Games
Unfolding the Olympic IT roadmap
News spotlight Technology makes or breaks Olympic dreams--ZDNet Asia looks back at ICT planning for Beijing 2008 Games, which goes as far back as 2001.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Personal Computers, Servers, Data backup, disaster recovery, Business applications, Atos, RFID, Wireless, Touch Screen
Lenovo on track for 2008 Olympics in Beijing
News Company is deploying at least 20,000 pieces of equipment to build tech backbone for events and game coverage.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Servers, IT Management
Olympics moves into test phase
News Beijing 2008 organizing committee and main IT services partner, Atos Origin, have officially completed the planning stage. Other tech vendors also gear up for the Games.
Lenovo: New tech can fire up Olympics, too
News While the vendor is obligated to supply mature technology for the Beijing Olympics, Lenovo still gets to showcase its newer products in the ongoing Olympic Torch Relay.
Tags: Personal Computers, Servers, Product marketing
Beijing marks 100-day countdown to Olympics
News International Olympic Committee officials voice confidence in the organization of this year's Games, as China continues to gear up for the global sporting event.
Tags: Green IT, Business applications, Software engineering/development, Atos, Xinhua News Agency, International Olympic Committee, China, Beijing, information technology, Olympic Games
No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics
News Latest version of Windows will not be used, as it was not available when the list of computer hardware for the sporting event was fixed three years ago.
Tags: Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Windows XP
Open source runs alongside Windows in Olympics
News Open source technology will be used in the IT systems for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but the dominant software platform will be Microsoft's Windows, says Atos Origin.
Tags: Open source, Data security, Security implementation/standards
Spam races to the Olympics
News Expect more incidents of online scams and fraud connected to next month's Beijing 2008, as well as spam targeted at mobile devices, Symantec says.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Security, Mobile, Sophos Plc., Bitdefender, Stock, Japan, e-mail, Symantec Corp.
Olympic visitors get info kiosks
News Visa unveils 55 booths in Beijing to provide Olympic Games-related information and tourist assistance to guests attending the sporting event next month.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Business applications, Philippines, Kiosk, Gartner Inc., phone, payment, Visa Inc., China, Olympic Games
Where IT commands the Olympics
News From the Technology Operations Center of Beijing 2008, experts ensure critical tech systems stay in top form to support the upcoming Games.
Tags: Hardware, Software, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT project management, Atos, Security, Information Security, International Olympic Committee, information system, information technology
