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Check out this webcast to learn more about fast and efficient business security strategies. You're in the midst of an arms race, make sure you win it.
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UK expectations for Google Wallet: Great idea, busted flush
Google Wallet could be brought to the UK in time for the 2012 Olympics. While the mobile payment application is a great idea, it might not stick with the Brits.
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Zamboni to the rescue after electric ice groom shortcircuits
Electric ice groomer snafu underscores need for green tech testing.
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NBC Olympics app is worthy of a gold medal
Could the Olympics iPhone app be better than being there? Probably not, but it's close.
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Follow the 2010 Olympics on your smartphone with Winter Sports Live
The 2010 Winter Olympics kicks off in Vancouver, Canada tonight and Handmark has a new free application to help you keep up to date on the activities at the Olympics. Handmark's Winter Sports Live...
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Sega's Vancouver 2010 (screenshots)
As the Olympics gets into full swing, you may find yourself having an urge to pick up Sega's Vancouver 2010 and do a little Olympics video gaming. Before you buy, here's a quick look at what the...
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Five gadgets for the ultimate Winter Olympics viewing experience
Friday is a day that many athletes, Canadians and obsessive Olympics-fans (me) have been awaiting for a long time: the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada....
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Digital cloud set to hover above 2012 Olympics (photos)
A structure with two towers connected by "bubbles" is planned to broadcast real-time data and images high above London.
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Why the London Olympics is closed source
This is about the fact that BT won the IT contract last year, plus its marketing rights. BT is a phone company. Phone companies are among the last hold-outs against open source.
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China said to be blocking Web sites
The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Internet sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games, experts say. The New York Times
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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...
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How the world watched the Olympics online
Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all...
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2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall
The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is...
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Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation...
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News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight...
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Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology...
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Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
My ZDNet colleagues Tom Steinert-Threlkeld and Ryan Stewart ran the raw numbers on Olympics online viewership. While the amount of traffic on the videos over the weekend was impressive -- ...
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The Olympics Watch: Not That Much
The Internet did not break, melt or probably even much notice the Olympics, in its first weekend. On Saturday, for instance, only about 4.8 million people watched 3.1 million video streams. On...
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Olympic medal count iPhone app
If you're an Olympics buff you can keep track of the medal count at the 2008 Summer Olympic games with Beijing 2008. The app allows you to view the top five ranked countries and you can select an...
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Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
The opening Olympic ceremony in Beijing is underway just don't expect to watch them live. That'll happen later on Friday so the Web doesn't cannibalize TV for NBC. It's one of many hurdles you...
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More worries for Beijing visitors
If you are headed to (or already at) the Olympic Games and you weren’t worried by my Tech Tips for Beijing Visitors at the end of last month, maybe you should be now, In telling the Wall Street...
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