Tagged: Olympics 2012 & News
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London 2012 shot put: Google Doodle gets the ball in motion for athletics events News
03.08.2012 Today is the start of the athletics at the London 2012 Olympics, and Google is getting in on the action as its homepage today features a Doodle that celebrates the track and... -
London 2012 table tennis dominates Google Doodle News
02.08.2012 Internet search giant Google is tipping its hat to the Olympic sport of table tennis with a Doodle on its homepage. -
London 2012 field hockey: Google Doodle takes a puck at the game News
01.08.2012 Hockey, one of the oldest-known ball-and-stick games, is the theme of today’s Google Doodle, as the search giant continues its trend of revering Olympic sports on its homepage... -
#London2012 - Instagram users capture Olympic moments (photos) News
31.07.2012 Instagram users are snapping away fast and furiously at the London 2012 Olympic games, if the number of Olympics-related photos taken with the app are anything to go by. -
London 2012 Artistic Gymnastics Men's Rings feature in Google Doodle News
31.07.2012 Internet search giant Google is continuing to feature an Olympic sport a day as a Google Doodle on its homepage during the sporting event, and today’s subject is artistic... -
Malicious tweet for GB diver Tom Daley leads to teen’s arrest News
31.07.2012 Dorset Police have arrested a teenager after Team GB diver Tom Daley received a tweet telling him he had let down his late father after he and his partner Pete Waterfield came... -
#London2012 – Networks can’t handle Olympian volume of texts News
30.07.2012 Spectators at the men’s cycling road race on Sunday were asked to refrain from texting during the event unless it was urgent, as overloaded data networks caused problems for... -
#London2012 – NBC’s failed attempt at Olympics coverage for tech-savvy viewers News
30.07.2012 Bad scheduling, a tape delay, and condescending comments. These are just some of the complaints coming from viewers of NBC’s Olympics coverage, showing how the US broadcaster... -
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#London2012 – Twitter finally reveals dedicated Olympics page [UPDATED] News
27.07.2012 Step right up for the greatest show on earth – the Olympic circus has come to town! Well, to London, at least. And as we prepare for 17 days of the finest athleticism these... -
London 2012 fencing: Google Doodle reveres the sport News
30.07.2012 Google has been spewing out a flurry of Doodles in the past few days to honour the start of the London 2012 Olympics. Today on its homepage the search giant depicts Olympic... -
#London2012 – Google hits the target with another Olympic-themed Doodle News
28.07.2012 The Games of the XXX Olympiad have officially begun, kicked off in style with an opening ceremony directed by Danny Boyle last night. And it seems that Google is as much a... -
#London2012 – How green will the Games be? News
27.07.2012 There’s less than six hours to go until the 2012 Olympic Games' opening ceremony, but much has been spoken about how the Games will be the greenest yet. So what are the...Categories: Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Renewable Energy, Mobility, Green Tech, Engineering, Economy -
Irish Sports Council goes live with high-performance athletes’ website News
27.07.2012 Just in time for Olympics 2012, the Irish Sports Council has gone live with a new website that has dedicated pages for all high-performance athletes funded by the Irish public.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Digital Business, Development, Design -
#London2012 - Socialympics and the Twitter Games (infographic) News
28.07.2012 The London 2012 Olympics are upon us, and the Games are expected to generate Olympic-sized traffic online and across social media. For instance, BBC is expecting 1 Terabit per... -
Twitter is back up after outage – you can all breathe again News
26.07.2012 A mystery Twitter outage on the eve of the London Olympics has lifted. It was the second major outage the social network has experienced in recent weeks. -
#London2012 – Google’s very sporting Doodle honours the 2012 Olympic Games News
27.07.2012 With just hours to go until the opening ceremony of London 2012 – what is billed to be the most digital games yet – Google has created a Doodle worthy of a gold medal itself. -
Olympic athlete Voula Papachristo expelled from Games for Twitter comment News
25.07.2012 Olympic triple jumper Voula Papachristo has been expelled from taking part in the Games for a Twitter comment about African immigrants and supposed support for a far-right party. -
Pro-Obama group launches attack on US Republican Mitt Romney (video) News
25.07.2012 Priorities USA Action, a Democratic group that backs US President Barack Obama, has issued a video attack on the US Republican businessman Mitt Romney to co-incide with his trip... -
#London2012 preview: Let the digital games begin! (video) News
25.07.2012 From 3D TV to dedicated apps, interactive websites to social media, the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games promise to be one of the world’s biggest ever events in digital media....Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital MediaTags: Broadcasting, 3D, HDTV, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Digital Media, Media, Sport, TV, On Demand, UPC, Olympics 2012, Olympics, BBC -
Londoners and visitors to get free Wi-Fi in city hotspots during Olympics News
25.07.2012 O2 is getting in on the buzz around the upcoming Olympics, as it is making free Wi-Fi available at some of London’s most iconic hotspots – think Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly...