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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Akamai and iStreamPlanet to Power Live and on-Demand Video for NBC`s Coverage
>> of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
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>> http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS215979+05-Nov-2009+BW20091105
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>> Wanna watch the Winter Olympics online? You'll need Silverlight
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>> | NBC's Winter Olympics Web site went live
>> | Wednesday. While the site's main navigation
>> | module is powered by Adobe Flash, NBC's video
>> | player is all Microsoft Silverlight. This
>> | time around, a year-and-a-half after the 2008
>> | Summer Olympics in Beijing, there are some
>> | cool new features.
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>> http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/184144.asp
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> And here Vancouver was such a hot-bed of open information formats...
>
> They were sold out by the IOC.
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> http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2009/05/vancouver-considers-adopting-free-software-and-open-standards-in-government.html
> http://jesse.kline.ca/blog/54-floss/113-vancouver-considers-adopting-free-software-and-open-standards-in-government
>
> Vancouver taxpayer are being taken to the cleaners and now
> this...Boycott the Olympics
Microsoft has people (former/existing employees) near the Olympic board. Bach might
join soon.
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