Olympic Gold Medalist Gives Props to Google Earth
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
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
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?
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.
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