With all eyes converging on Sydney for the 2000 Olympics the technology to run it will be put to the test. David Hellaby investigates. It is 40 years since computers were used to analyse

By the end of the games the site will have set new records for net traffic. The Atlanta Games site - the first Official Olympics site - received 187 million hits (approximately 33 million page views)

IBMs IT infrastructure has a very public face in the form of the official Olympic Web site. By the end of the Games it will have received an estimated 1.4 billion page views or the equivalent of sever

Telstra has had the role of providing the network infrastructure that is coping with both the Australian end of the site traffic and providing 155Mb capacity fibre optic links between the IBM LANs at

The scoreboards have been provided by Panasonic and are state-of-the-art. Panasonic Australia has supplied two Astrovision screens in the Olympic Stadium. The screens are each 135 metres square (13.5

The best of this year's joypad twiddlers, revealed.

Intel's new CEO, Paul Otellini, envisions a quad core processor in every handheld device

It is perhaps understandable that mobile phones should be the real leaders in the techno fashion stakes; after all there are close to one billion of them in circulation and the number is growing daily

Is the next generation flat screen technology worth waiting for?

It's official - flip phones are out, and touch phones are in, as shown by this week's major launch of a new crop of phones by Samsung, as it goes in to battle with the iPhone.

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

The system receives competition information from the Venue Results applications and distributes it to 15,000 media through more than 700 Fuji Xerox printers. At the competition venues, printed results

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.