Tag: 2012 olympics
Google celebrate Olympics with London 2012 Doodle
Google have marked the opening day of the London 2012 Olympics this morning with a sport themed Google Doodle on their landing page. It's become something of a tradition for Google to mark key birthdays or world events with a…
TECH PENTATHLON: How to stream the London 2012 Olympics – websites, smart TVs, apps and set-top boxes
Today sees the penultimate instalment in the Tech Digest Tech Pentathlon series. As we're gearing up for the Olympics, we've already highlighted five of the best Olympic apps, some of the best Olympic gadgets hitting stores and also how to…
TECH PENTATHLON: How to work from home during the London 2012 Olympic Games
Forget the naysayers; the London 2012 Olympic Games are going to be great. Sure, it's been expensive, and some of the organisational stuff has been fluffed slightly, but it's gonna be a hell of a show, with the world's greatest…
Virgin Media's London Underground Wi-Fi network now live
London's commuters took one important step closer to getting underground Wi-Fi access today, with Virgin Media's new London Underground Wi-Fi service delivering the first tweet from the iconic tube system. BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones had the privilege of sending the…
Tweeting for gold: 2012 Olympic Twitter Stadium opens
The 2012 London Olympic Games are nearly upon us! In just under a year's time the game's opening ceremony will kick off proceedings, with the world's most elite athletes decending on the capital, sights set on the gold. To…
The Digital Cloud and the London 2012 Olympics
It may be but a dream in the pipeline for researchers at MIT, but these design-stage renders of the proposed Digital Cloud for London's 2012 Olympics has Tech Digest very excited.
400 ft high "Digital Cloud" could display London 2012 Olympic highlights
The towers would run purely on regenerative energy sources. However, powering a structure like this almost solely on solar power, in rainy London, seems just a tad ambitious.
