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The official website of the Beijing Olympics, Beijing2008.cn, attracted over 16 million visitors in just the first ten days following the opening ceremony. The website, with versions in Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Arabic, managed to be incredibly popular, thus underscoring the fact that people's attent... |
26 August 2008
07:06 GMT |
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As the Beijing Olympics closed yesterday, this is as good a time as ever to draw the line and analyze the bad and good of what was the first edition of the Games to have global digital coverage. Although international forums said that giving a communist country the right to host such an important event could have rep... |
25 August 2008
06:07 GMT |
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A hacker, identified as Stryde Hax, while following leads indicating that a couple female Chinese gymnasts participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics are underage, managed to stumble upon some webpages supporting such scenarios. Thus, he discovered certain inadvertences that could convince even the most skeptical of ... |
21 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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The Olympic Games usually make employees forget about work for a few minutes a day, in order to check what the latest competition news brings. Inevitably, when the corporate workforce decides to have a sneak preview at their favorite athletes' performance on a streaming media channel while at work, bandwidth may... |
20 August 2008
05:32 GMT |
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In order to keep up to date on the Beijing Olympic Games, even if from in front of the screens, millions of people are searching the Internet for the latest news on the competition. This thirst for breaking news makes hijackers' job easier than ever and this is proven by SophosLabs experts who discovered an SQL ... |
11 August 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Adobe will make available some of its high-end technologies, such as Flash and Flex, to offer a full Internet coverage of the Olympics in China and Macau. The company has partnered with CCTV.com, the enterprise that has the online video rights to the Beijing Olympic Games. While the Chinese company will allow users t... |
5 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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The International Olympic Committee announced today that, after negotiations with the Chinese authorities, journalists would be provided with full access to the Internet. "The media should be seeing a noticeable difference in accessibility to web sites that they need to report on the Olympic Games." says an IOC offic... |
1 August 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Spammers' imagination is constantly reaching new peaks. The disastrous earthquake that hit China also gave ideas to spammers, who started using headlines referring to the catastrophe in the email subjects. Their purpose - to persuade the users to access a "video" that in fact was an executable file that launched... |
8 July 2008
02:20 GMT |
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Terra, the largest Internet company in Latin America, has managed to sign an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, that allows it to broadcast the Beijing 2008 Olympics on the Internet and mobile platforms. The company was chosen, as the official website of the Olympics states, because of its capacity t... |
7 July 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Long gone are the days of sports games in the local arcade and we have to say that besides a lot of soccer, football and hockey games over the years, there hasn't been too much activity in this niche. Summer Athletics will bring back sports in your living room with exciting competitions in over 25 summer discipl... |
10 June 2008
08:46 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be one of the busiest times of the year for hackers because most of them will launch attacks related to the event in order to find new victims. In fact, it seems like the attacks have already been launched as NetworkWorld informs that a couple of p... |
25 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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With the Beijing Olympics quickly approaching, both hackers and athletes are getting ready for the sports competition. Unfortunately, they have different purposes and, even if we all want to see a fair-play event, it seems that hackers are planning to cheat. According to MessageLabs, the company has detected no less ... |
23 April 2008
16:36 GMT |
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When the rain dance fails, turn to cloud seeding, say the Chinese officials. With the imminent approach of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is seriously taking into consideration the use of technology to clear pollution in the city and inhibit the rain from falling from the sky when it is not required, which basically mean... |
29 February 2008
09:05 GMT |
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The Censor-full China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of the Olympic events. Originally, under the January introduced Internet censorship plan, every site that wasn't government-owned would be blocked, thus making streaming impossible.MySpace China and... |
28 February 2008
10:43 GMT |
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The 2008 Beijing Olympics haven't yet started and already we're talking about the 2012 edition. As strange as it may seem, we'll see Wii Sports as part of the competitions included in the Olympic challenges, according to the International Olympics committee president, Jacques Rogge. Wii Sports has ju... |
22 January 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Sega has announced an official, exclusive partnership with International Sports Multimedia (ISM) to develop the official video game of the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing this year. The game will be developed by Eurocom Entertainment, the same company that worked on the Athens 2004 video game. Beijing 2008 will b... |
11 January 2008
04:26 GMT |
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2008 may be a busy year when it comes to computer threats, as the attackers prepare an avalanche of malicious attempts over our systems, Websense wrote in the "2008's Top Ten Security Threats" report published today. Although the security vendor presented all the top ten threats which may appear next year, I pr... |
6 December 2007
08:50 GMT |
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A deal which was confirmed in 2005 is now causing serious headaches for Sohu.com, a Chinese Internet portal which obtained the rights to create the website and the logo for the upcoming competition. But this wasn't the fact that upset the competition. According to AFP, Sohu.com claims it owns the exclusive right... |
23 October 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Next year's Beijing Olympics will bring many reasons for excitement for many people, but also a few problems when it comes to communicating with the locals. EchoTranslator is just the thing any foreigner might need in order to get around efficiently.Chinese is not the easiest language to learn, so hitting the bo... |
7 June 2007
03:00 GMT |
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