Monday, September 1, 2008

Olympic achievements Lenovo

Important role in excellent conduct of past Olympic Games played a technical support Lenovo. For the Olympics the company has provided more than 30000 pieces of equipment identified 600 engineers and technicians, opened a seven-Internet lounge (i-lounges) in the Olympic Village in Beijing, Hong Kong and Qingdao, as well as in the main press center of the Olympics. Lenovo lounge allowed athletes, coaches and journalists use the Internet and e-mail, Internet blogs to watch and broadcast competitions. Internet lounge Lenovo will operate and the Paralympic Games, which will be held from 6 to 17 sentryabrya 2008.

To provide every possible nuance and complexity, and optimize IT-infrastructure at high peak load, the company Lenovo has held more than 40 full-scale rehearsals, which were used and tested all services. The result of these rehearsals became a high level of preparedness of the entire system.

In support of the Olympics company has built several facilities in Beijing for family members of athletes and visitors to the Olympics. One of the most interesting objects can be called Lenovo Showcase @ the Olympic Games - construction area of 1550 square meters, which showcased the most exciting technological innovations and achievements of the company. For example, visitors can experiment with the technology of recognition of Lenovo, or make your photos with the Olympic torch. Interestingly, the design of the Olympic torch developed by Lenovo, was among the 300 best works open competition: made in the form of traditional Chinese scroll, he received the title "Cloud of hope". Designers also created Lenovo and other attributes of the Games - the Olympic bowl lamp and fire. A three winners of the contest for the best video Lenovo was given the opportunity to participate in the Olympic flame relay race.

The most powerful impression on journalists in Beijing has made the wireless system with photos Beacon, which Lenovo continued to test during the Games. Being in sports facilities journalists can transmit pictures from digital cameras using wireless Wi-Fi news directly to their offices. In doing so, they did not have to stop work to copy pictures from the camera memory to a notebook. Although the system Beacon has not yet entered the market, the journalists managed to call it a device future.

At the 2008 Olympic Games, Lenovo has actively cooperated with athletes from different countries. For the first time in the history of the Olympic movement 100 leading athletes such as Eric Veras Larsen (canoes), Jennifer Nichols (shooting archery), Joyce Maduaka (track and field athletics), have blogs on its participation in the Games website at www.lenovo.com during Olympics . For this purpose, the company provided the athletes IdealPad laptops and camcorders. The Russian team maintained the company Lenovo honored master of sports, legkoatletku Tatyana Lebedeva, who won in Beijing two silver medals - in the triple jump (15.32 meters with the result) and jumping in length (7.03 metres).

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