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Photos: On the ground at the Olympics

Couldn't score a ticket to Turin? Spectators armed with cameras take you along to the slopes and ice rinks of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Tags: Turin, Winter Olympics, slope, Olympic Games, ice, camera

Image galleries 2006-02-22

Photos: On the ground at the Olympics

Couldn't score a ticket to Turin? Spectators armed with cameras take you along to the slopes and ice rinks of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Tags: Turin, Winter Olympics, slope, Olympic Games, ice, camera

Image galleries 2006-02-22

Additional Resources

NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL

At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding to its existing Sunday Night Football coverage. The new video player includes PVR features such as slow motion, fast-forward, and rewind, and gives users the ability...

Tags: NBC Universal Inc., NFL, Video, Video Player, Media Player, Media Players, Corporate Communications, DVR, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment, Olympics

Videos 2009-11-16

Tickets.com services for Vancouver Winter 2010 Olympic Games crashes during first release of tickets

People looking to buy tickets for the Vancouver Winter 2010 Olympics wound up shutting down the system. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Tickets.com, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Datenotes Complete Sports Package 1.2 - WITH NBA 2001-02 (Mobile)

This is the Complete Package of Major Sports Schedules aggregated to fit in 1 convenient spot: The Palm Datebook. Features Include:2001 NFL Season and preseason including week number and open dates.2001 NCAA Division 1A Football season listed by conference.2001 MLB Season and All Star activities.2001-2002 NBA Season and All Star...

Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., NBA, Datenotes, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-08

State of the Art Microsoft Conference Experience - Online...

Microsoft are doing a terrific job of demonstrating how to run a conference with their Mix09 conference, which is happening in Vegas right now. Click on the conference url while the keynotes are on and it is as if you're there. A live...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Games, Strategy, Marketing, Personal Technology, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Special Olympics CIO: Andre Mendes

Andre Mendes, CIO of the Special Olympics, talks to CNET’s Dan Farber about managing technology operations for a non-profit that currently has more than 2.8 million athletes participating in its summer and winter games. Mendes discusses capturing the event online for family and friends and the unique experience of running...

Tags: CIO, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Special Olympics CIO: Andre Mendes

Andre Mendes, CIO of the Special Olympics, talks to CNET's Dan Farber about managing technology operations for a non-profit that currently has more than 2.8 million athletes participating in its summer and winter games. Mendes discusses capturing the event online for family and friends and the unique experience of running...

Tags: CIO, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management, Andre Mendes

Videos 2009-01-06

NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King

If NBC had to choose a single platform on which to base its business for the next five years, it wouldn't be the Internet or mobile phones. "Sorry, guys, it would be television,'' the president of NBC Universal research said Monday. That is the conclusion of NBC's...

Tags: Home Entertainment, Internet, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Tv & Home Theater, TVs

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?By itself, the HTC will not kill much of anything, but, we might see thesame effect that limited the Mac to an niche. Android phones will be available from lots of different vendors, and carriers.RE: Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?[i]Do...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone-killer, Apple iPhone, killer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

IOC puts Beijing Games highlights on YouTube

Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube. BEIJING--Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the video-sharing site YouTube, owned by Google, under an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, the IOC said in a...

Tags: International Olympic Committee, YouTube Inc., Olympic, Games, Corporate Communications, TVs, Public Relations, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment, Reuters, Google, YouTube, Olympics, video

News items 2008-08-05

PDAs to track Olympic VIPs in Beijing

The EventTrack lets users send a message to transport organizers for pickup and drop-off, and also helps Chinese authorities keep track of guests. From ZDNet Australia Foreign dignitaries, guests of major sponsors, and Olympic officials alike will be given a modified PDA at this year's Beijing Olympics, which...

Tags: Beijing, Guest, EventTrack, PDAs, Handhelds, Security, Hardware, ZDNet Australia, Consumer electronics

News items 2008-04-11

MSNBC.com Deploys BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager to Handle Traffic Demands for Winter Olympics Coverage

MSNBC.com was tasked to build, design and maintain a Web site for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. The challenge was to handle enormous traffic loads, to improve user experience and to deliver high availability on a local and wide area scale. It deployed F5's BIG-IP Local...

Tags: BIG-IP, F5 Networks Inc., MSNBC, Web Site Development, Workforce Management, Internet, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-04-03

Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License

With the implementation of the U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WHTI program, U.S. citizens ultimately will need to provide WHTI-compliant proof of identity upon returning to the U.S. from western hemisphere nations. With Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire's sponsorship, and anticipating increased border crossings in 2010 with the upcoming Winter...

Tags: U.S., Washington, Microsoft Corp.

Case studies 2008-03-01

Beijing starts IT testing for Olympics

Testing gets under way a full year before the event opens, with 500 worst-case scenarios to be rehearsed. Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics begin this month, a full year before the event opens on August 8, 2008. The systems architecture for...

Tags: Olympic Games, Beijing, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, ZDNN Staff

News items 2007-08-02

Turin 2006 Winter Olympics 1.6 (Windows)

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., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-25

Performance Testing Solution for a Winter Olympic Website

The company is a leader in online news and original journalism, with a wider outreach than any of the newspapers in the USA. The company faced the challenge to build, design and maintain the official Winter Olympics websites, which were expected to see record traffic volumes of 300,000 concurrent users...

Tags: Performance, AppLabs, Performance Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet

Case studies 2007-07-12

Behind the Scenes of the First All-IP Converged Network for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Bell Canada is delivering the first all-IP converged network at a Winter Games. In selecting partners, Bell Canada and VANOC were looking for a high degree of commitment and proven capabilities in designing and deploying some of the world's most reliable and robust converged communications networks. They found those characteristics...

Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Bell Canada, Games, Networking, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-06-25

Performance-enhancing sporting suits

In A Superhero Suit for Athletes, BusinessWeek describes in its inimitable style that an entrepreneur from UK has invented a flexible foam material to protect people practicing all kinds of sports. The materials developed by d3o Lab are now used by skiers, skate boarders and soccer goalkeepers among others. But...

Tags: performance, Spyder, BusinessWeek, Canadian Olympic

Blog posts 2006-10-16

Good Night Mr. Snoozlebrg 2 1 (Windows)

Mr. Snoozleberg is the perfect diplomat: charming, likable, and inoffensive. Unfortunately, he is also a chronic sleepwalker. You need to help Mr. Snoozleberg sleepwalk through the night at the Winter Olympics, a prehistoric plateau, the deep seas and a mad scientists lab. But be careful, you can't wake him up....

Tags: Desktops, Games, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Sarbakan, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-03