Between the Aug. 8 opening events and the Aug. 24 closing ceremonies NBC will film 4,000 hours of footage and broadcast nearly 3,000 hours of it on its family of TV networks and Web site. To film, edit and broadcast all the footage in a timely manner, NBC partnered with Isilon Systems and Omneon Video Networks. Together they developed a complex editing process using big storage infrastructure and tagging technology; Intels Centrino is Intels fifth mobile platform for notebooks and the chip maker claims it will increase laptop battery life while delivering speedier performance and faster wireless connectivity; Repsol, a top ten oil producer teamed with the IBM and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center project to produce more accurate drilling and exploration maps. More accurate maps make drilling cheaper and faster.
Respol is using the power of the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor to speed up the imaging algorithm used to render the maps; and Apple opened the doors to its iPhone App store last week, unleashing more than 500 applications for iPhone users. With all the options you might forget its a phone or the offspring of a music player.
