Olympics

Olympic Gold Medalist Gives Props to Google Earth

ITworld staff — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:17:55 -0400

Google got some serious gold, promotion-wise: Olympic cyclist and Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong wrote that Google Earth was "invaluable" in helping her find a training route in Boise, Idaho similar to the Olympic course in Beijing.

Olympic tech's winners and losers

ITworld staff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:26:52 -0400

The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has ended, the flame extinguished, and while the medal count is now final, a few awards have yet to be given out: those for the winners and losers when it came to technology at the games.

Olympics: China by the numbers

ITworld staff — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:08:02 -0400

If nothing else, China is a country of superlatives: biggest, largest, oldest, most. As China racks up gold in Beijing with just under a week to go in the Olympics, the medal count isn't the only place where China posts the top numbers:

Olympics: so far, so good, so what?

ITworld staff — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:05:08 -0400

The Olympics is, after all, about technology, right? IT and all that stuff? Hardware, software? At least I think that's what it's all about. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympics (BOCOG) said that this was a "High-tech Olympics," so I guess it must be. They also said it was going to be a "Green Olympics," although frankly Beijing always looks kind of gray.

Zumobi helps you keep track of the Olympics

ITworld staff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:32:32 -0400

Olympic fever, baby! Stay on top of all things Olympic with Zumobi's new Olympic iPhone app.

For first time, Olympics is all high-def

ITworld staff — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:45 -0400

Over the next 17 days the victories and defeats of athletes at the 2008 Olympic Games will decide much of how the event will be remembered. But going into the competition, there is already one notable first: it is the first Olympics that will be produced entirely in high-definition (HD).

Chinese Tweeters celebrate Olympics with '#080808'

ITworld staff — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:42:55 -0400

A new online movement less than 24 hours old seeks to spread the Olympic spirit among users of the Twitter micro-blogging site.

Lenovo looks for strong finish at Beijing Olympics

abennett — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:47:02 -0400

More than any other official sponsor at the Beijing Olympics, Lenovo may have the most to gain -- and the most to lose -- as a Chinese company trying to reach a worldwide market.

Nerdlympics, Summer 2008

ITworld staff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:30:13 -0400

While many of us tech types will enjoy watching the Beijing Olympics, for most of us the chances of actually participating are low -- unless we're called upon to help circumvent China's Internet censorship infrastructure. And so in honor of (and, perhaps, in counterpoint to) the 2008 Summer Olympic games, we'd like to propose a more geek-friendly multi-sport competition ... the Nerdlympics.

Olympic Games torch DRAM market

ITworld staff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:48:46 -0400

Just when it didn't seem like things could get any worse for the global DRAM market, a Chinese crackdown on pirated goods ahead of the Olympic Games has sent chip prices even lower.