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Bush Defends Decision to Attend Olympics Opening

President Bush on Sunday defended removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and attending the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics as world leaders assembled to address soaring gas prices, climate change and African aid.

Bush defends decision to attend Olympics

President Bush, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda arrive for a press conference Sunday at the lakeside resort of Toyako, Japan.

2008 Olympics Travel: Google Mapping All the Venues

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Bush to attend Olympic ceremony

US President George W Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the White House says.

A Hard-Liner Bemoans Korea Deal

This is a sad, sad day,” John R. Bolton said last week as the Bush administration prepared to take North Korea off the U.S. terror list. Today, the longtime Bush loyalist and former top State Department official on arms control had a few more words on the decision — 955 of them in fact. “The Tragic End of Bush’s North Korea Policy,” an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, was his elegy for one of the first major foreign policy shifts of George W. Bush’s presidency:

Bush Prods China to Lessen Repression

President Bush, the first U.S. president to attend an Olympics abroad, blended political messages for China and Russia with high fives and hugs for American athletes Friday.

Olympics Search Review: Google And Yahoo Get Gold; AOL Grabs Silver; Live Places Last With Bronze

imageThe 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available for all three screens: TV, Internet and Mobile. So, with the Olympics in full swing and viewers hungry to get the latest results in everything from basketball to equestrian, we thought it was fitting to check in and see how well things are being presented on the mobile phone. As the games proceed, we’ll be taking a look at how things are shaking out. Here’s the first of a series, tackling the question, which of the major search engines—Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Live Search, or AOL (NYSE: TWX)—are providing the best mobile experience? To answer that question, we simply searched the word “Olympics” from each of the search engines using their mobil

At G8, Bush defends decisions on North Korea, Olympics

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World Twenty20 pullout a one-off decision

Zimbabwe's decision to pull out of the ICC World Twenty20 in England next year is just a one-off decision, the ICC has said. The decision cleared the roadblock for the competition to be staged in England, but Zimbabwe retained its Full Member status in the ICC, a compromise outgoing ICC president Ray Mali termed as a "win-win solution".

In China, Bush juggles sports and diplomacy

During the Olympic basketball game between the USA and China, President Bush, in the blue shirt, stood between Chinese Foreign Minister, Yangjiechi, and first lady Laura Bush. Henry Kissinger is behind Bush.

From Space to the Olympics

Space and the Olympics might not be synonymous in most people's minds — although this image of the Opening Ceremony fireworks makes it look like Olympic Stadium is going supernova — but there are a few connections between the two for this year's Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Google Earth recently updated the satellite imagery it uses for the Beijing area to provide users with better maps. They also used satellite imagery to create a 3-D tour of all the facilities for the 2008 Olympics (see video below). Other space connections include several space explorers who carried the Olympic torch on its running tour around the world, and NASA space spinoff technology used in some of the clothing and equipment for Olympic use.

Priceline's Asian Travel Experts Offer Tips For Attending The 2008 Summer Olympics...

Priceline's Asian Travel Experts Offer Tips For Attending The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing What to see and do in Beijing - and how to find the most reasonably priced hotel rooms NORWALK, Conn. & BANGKOK, Thailand--(Business Wire)-- There's sure to be plenty of excitement at the events surrounding the August 8-24, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But visitors to the Games should also allow time to explore Beijing and all it has to offer, according to Michael Kenny, Chief Executive Officer of Agoda.com, priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) Asian online hotel reservation service. Olympics-goers can still find Beijing hotel rooms on priceline.com www.priceline.com or, for an even wider selection, they can try Agoda www.agoda.com. Hotel rates are running a wide gamut from $127 a night at the Days Inn Forbidden City to $1,019 at the 5-star Jianguo

Brown defends fuel duty decision

Gordon Brown has defended a decision to postpone a 2p rise in fuel duty after David Cameron suggested it was timed to coincide with next week's by-election.

Venue decision delayed

A decision on whether to move the ICC Champions Trophy from Pakistan in September because of security concerns will be made this week. On Sunday, the International Cricket Council held a security briefing for the eight teams taking part but said a decision had not been reached. The ICC is concerned about potential security threats beyond the Pakistan Cricket Board's control. This is because last month a suicide bomber killed 15 people in Islamabad.

Space technology helps China's Olympics ceremony soar

Beijing Olympics challenges London, says UK Olympic chief •France seeks medals in pool •Olympics truce can help promote human peace: U.S. foundation chairman •Promoting China-France ties accords with interests of two peoples, says Chinese Premier

New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0

Dekortage writes "If you watch the Olympics gymnastics this year, you may be confused by the new scoring system which will let athletes score 14, 17, or even higher. The new rules are 'heavy on math' and employ two panels of judges: one for technical difficulty, which adds points up from a score of zero; the other for execution and technique, which starts at 10.0 and subtracts for errors. The two numbers are then combined for the final score. As one judge put it, 'The system rewards difficulty. But the mistakes are also more costly.' The new rules were adopted after South Korea protested a scoring at the 2004 Olympics." Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner, but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at tha

The Beijing Olympics and the 'Great Firewall' of China

Internet access is sufficient and convenient for reporters covering the Olympics, a member of the Chinese organizing committee argued during a recent phone interview with the Turkish Daily News. But as cameras cut to the press center in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on the opening day, Aug. 8, journalists were surprised to find themselves with access blocked to Web sites such as the BBC Chinese-language service.

Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?

techmuse writes "Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"

Google Catches 2008 Olympics Fever

Google too has caught the 2008 Summer Olympics fever. Yesterday, Google launched the 2008 Summer Olympics Games site for users who wish to stay updated with events, medals, and other happenings at Summer Games.

TECH BLOGBeijing Olympics' Gold-Medal Effort at Manipulating Reality

A 55-second portion of the broadcast is getting more attention than the rest of the more than two-hour Olympics opening ceremony. That's because organizers have acknowledged using computer animation in place of live footage in part of the fireworks program. Renay San Miguel looks into the ethics of the decision.

EIC Squared: Olympics, LinuxWorld, and Google cookies

On this week's EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I talk about the big story of this month--the Olympics. Microsoft and NBC are hoping that their servers and software can handle the load as the Silverlight code (Microsoft's competitor to Adobe's Flash) takes its maiden voyage at NBCOlympics.com. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security is advising that people traveling to the Olympics leave their phones, laptops, and other digital equipment at home. "Somebody with a wireless device in China should expect it to be compromised," said Joel Brenner, the U.S. national counterintelligence executive. The "somebody" includes cybercriminals and Chinese security forces. We also talk about LinuxWorld in San Francisco, which wasn't a big hit, and Google's new opt-out policy, which has merged its tracking efforts with DoubleClick's.

The Editor’s Blog–Poker And The Olympics

With the Beijing Olympics in full swing, this seems as good a time as any for me to weigh in on the talk that occasionally crops up about making poker an Olympic sport. My opinion on this matter is very clear: There’s no friggin’ way poker should be part of the Olympics.

DoubleClick In-Stream: Google to use Silverlight technology for Olympics advertising

DoubleClick In-Stream: Google to use Silverlight technology for Olympics advertisingSearch engine giant Google has announced that their DoubleClick unit would be using Microsoft Silverlight technology for video advertising on NBC Universal’s Olympics services.These advertising would be powered by Silverlight 2 technology which is Microsoft’s challenger to Adobe Flash.Google announced this new advertising platform named DoubleClick [...]

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