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

Sega and Nintendo hook up on Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.

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

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

See the latest PC gear and meet industry leaders at Atomic Live 2008, including the first chance to play Far Cry 2 in Australia.

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