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Atos Origin snags Youth Olympics IT deal
News The IT services vendor will work with the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games to define IT requirements, and build two key systems for the inaugural event.
Tags: IT project management, IT outsourcing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business applications, Atos, IT Services, Singapore, IT services company, operational planning, London
Policing, with a virtual twist
News For law enforcement agencies, Web 2.0 poses challenges but also serve up opportunities in surveillance and intelligence gathering.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Terrorism insurance, Data security, Virtualization, Video, Singapore, Facebook, Web 2.0, Second Life, Internet
A battle for the soul of the Internet
Insight Tucows CEO Elliot Noss warns of a threat to cyberspace if international politics are allowed to trump sober judgment.
Tags: Domain names
Winter Olympics tech on track
News A year before the 2010 Winter Olympics are set to start in Vancouver, the technological backbone is nearly ready.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Infrastructure/architecture management, Atos, Winter Olympics, Computer, London Games, Silicon.com, Vancouver, workforce management, information technology
Silverlight 3 debuts ahead of official launch
News Microsoft posts final version of its Adobe Flash rival, a day ahead of its official launch in San Francisco.
Tags: Business applications, Multimedia, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Winter Olympics, San Francisco, Vancouver, NBC, PC, Multimedia
Safari hole exploited in seconds at security event
News Charlie Miller, who won a contest by hacking a MacBook Air last year, exploits a security hole in Safari within seconds at the CanSecWest security conference.
Tags: PC security, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Air, Security, Exploit, Web Browser, Apple MacBook, computer, Charlie Miller, TippingPoint Technologies
Netflix: Silverlight 3 could help with glitches
News The next version of Silverlight promises to help ease issues that some users have had in streaming videos on lower-end computers.
Tags: Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, computer, phone, Apple iPod, Vancouver, NBC, NetFlix Inc., MLB
Nortel to provide London 2012 network infrastructure
News The communications equipment firm will supply BT with the infrastructure it will need for WANs, LANs, call centers and fixed-line telephony at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Networking technology, VoIP/IP telephony, Networking, Nortel Networks Corp., telephony, Vancouver, network, Olympic Games, call-center
'Microserfs' author looks at Google generation
News In "JPod," Douglas Coupland takes his characteristic skepticism to this year's crop of oppressed tech workers.
Tags: Home entertainment, Workplace
Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest
News An ethical hacking contest will pit the three operating systems against each other next month at CanSecWest conference.
Tags: Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS, Hacking
Netvigator launches North American portal
News Netvigator, the ISP arm of Cable & Wireless HKT has launched a North American version of its Chinese language portal aimed at Chinese immigrants living in Canada and the US.
PDA to track Olympic VIPs in Beijing
News Foreign dignitaries, guests of major sponsors and Olympic officials alike will each be issued a handheld at Beijing 2008, which allows organizers to track their movement and make necessary arrangements.
Tags: PDA phones, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications
Superfast London Olympic network gets underway
News A network capable of streaming the equivalent of 50,000 DVDs every second is being built for the London 2012 Olympic games.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Networking, Bandwidth, Network administration/implementation, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Nortel Networks Corp., Mobile, British Telecommunications, Panasonic
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.
SingTel expects US$2b cable to carry 25% of Asia data traffic
News Singapore Telecommunications Ltd said its US$2 billion undersea cable, which will link several Asian markets, is expected to carry a quarter of the region's data traffic as demand for such networks doubles each year to 2005.
