17/07/2007 by swordfish.

The IT infrastructure for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is in place, with testing the systems the next big step.

The Olympics’ system will relay event results and athlete information to spectators and media around the world in real-time during the competition.

The infrastructure, which has been designed, built and will be operated by Atos Origin, will link together more than 60 competition and non-competition venues across China, consisting of more than 900 servers, 7,000 PCs and 1,000 network and security devices.

Jeremy Hore, Beijing 2008 chief technology integrator for Atos Origin, said: “IT is vital to managing the complexity of the Games and relaying results in a timely, accurate and secure way to millions of viewers around the globe, and thousands of media attending locally.”

Hore said the biggest challenge the company faced was an “absolutely unmovable deadline” to roll out the Olympic systems, which meant there was only one chance to get the IT infrastructure right.

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17/07/2007 by swordfish.

Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.

Since its launch, Firefox has been steadily gaining market share from the dominant browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). In the first week of July 2006, Firefox had 21.1 percent of the market. In the first week of July 2007, Firefox held 27.8 percent of the European market, according to XiTi Monitor’s report.

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