Olympic wi-fi police

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Bookmark Bookmark Share. Close Top Stories. Staff at the airport wore hazmat suits with masks and visors. Do not help crashed Winter Olympics vehicles, Beijing police warn.

Hollywood studios worked with Netflix to get latest London High Court injunction. By reading this site you agree to our cookie policy. Click to find out more. You are here:. Don't have an account? Register today! Posted by davesom - Fri 03 Aug The London Olympics had been billed as the first "social media Games," but organizers have been accused of bungling the effort to seamlessly integrate popular technologies like Twitter and Facebook into the event.

Officials first drew criticism after heavy tweeting and texting from the sidelines of the July 28 men's cycling race overloaded one of the wireless networks and interfered with the GPS feeds of real-time racing information that the Olympic Broadcasting Service provides to television broadcasters covering the event. When, to remedy the situation, the International Olympic Committee suggested spectators restrict their tweets to "urgent updates" only, it was widely ridiculed in the blogosphere and mainstream press.

Some saw these attempts to set rules for social media use at the Games as misguided and part of the IOC's broader attempt to control the Olympic brand. Several technology websites had pointed out as early as April that the Olympic committee's rules for ticket holders in effect banned the sharing of photos and videos from Olympic events through services such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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