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Microsoft Signs Deal that Brings Interactive Viewing to the NFL
Microsoft will soon be a presence on the field and in your home as part of the NFL fan’s game watching experience as the team has joined with the league to provide interactive viewing capabilities to fans in a five year deal that is estimated to bring an additional $400 million to the NFL’s coffers There is a catch of sorts, you need to be viewing using Microsoft’s Xbox One game console Read More>>
MLB Comes to TiVo-Is there a Player it Does Not support?
One of the advantages of having MLB.TV Premium subscription has always been that you can use a variety of platforms to watch and listen to games, but until MLB added TiVo I never realized how many it actually did support. TiVo users can now watch MLB games, subject to certain limitations, and the app is designed to take advantage of select features that come with TiVo. MLB integrated TiVo's Read More>>
Python S3 Tablet can boot Three Different Operating Systems
The Python S3 is a tablet that has been just released by Italian developer Ekoore that has a feature that could help present true differentiation in the increasingly crowded tablet field; it can boot three very different operating systems. The latest offering from the company has the ability to boot either Ubuntu Linux, Windows 8 or the Android operating system providing a great degree of Read More>>
A Foodfight comes to Minor League Baseball
For fans of minor league baseball there is now a contest for them to sink their teeth into, a competition that will seek to judge which MiLB ballpark has the best concessions in a social media driven contest sponsor by Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm. The MiLB.com #foodfight contest will include 160 minor league ball yards and will have four different, and pretty clear, Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: ESPN Gets US Open, Qualcomm Adds Kaspersky
The dangers of getting malware and viruses on Android devices could be lessened greatly due to a deal that has Qualcomm preloading security firm Kaspersky Lab’s mobile security products into Qualcomm’s silicon that is used to power over a 1,000 different smartphones. According to Kaspersky the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor can be found in 770 commercially available or announced products as Read More>>
Hewlett-Packard Expands Tablet/PC Options
Looking for a tablet? For a Notebook Computer? Want Android or are you sticking with Windows? It doesn’t matter because Hewlett-Packard has you covered in its latest platform releases in its HP SlateBook x2 and HP Split x2 offerings. For a company that once abandoned tablets it now has some interesting offerings in this space while not abandoning the shrinking notebook market either. The Read More>>
San Jose Sharks Enlist Wayin for Twitter Hub
ESPN’s deal with Twitter the other day was an expected development as there is a growing desire to hook into social media by sports franchises and broadcasters and another that is following on that same path is the San Jose Sharks Hockey team. The Sharks have teamed with a Denver-based startup called Wayin using that company’s social media engagement hub to create a Twitter hub for fans of Read More>>
CBS Sports Enhances High School Coverage with New Partnerships
Increasingly fans are following not just college teams and players but looking at the incoming prep classes and watching where the top high school star athletes end up, and also increasingly this is being catered to by the broadcast networks The latest to head this way is CBS Interactive which has lined up a pair of partners, 247Sports and MaxPreps.com to enhance its coverage and provide fans Read More>>
