FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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Stadium Tech Report: Wi-Fi, DAS and live video get good reception at Barclays Center
Sometimes, the best surprise is no surprise. That's the case when it comes to technology deployments at the still-new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where the Wi-Fi, DAS and live video on both fixed and mobile platforms are all performing pretty much as expected. According to Chip Foley, vice president of building technology for Forest City Ratner Companies (the developer of Barclays Center), Read More>>
Sportsmanias.com updates website, enhances Twitter feed
Real time sports news aggregator Sportsmanias.com has extended its feature set with a redesign that has several additional features including one that will enable a fan to follow the Twitter feed from beat reporters on both sides of a rivalry. While currently a fan can have a Twitter stream that includes two or more beat reporters Sportsmanias has gone a step further and enables a fan to have Read More>>
Will Firefox on tablets lead to lower-cost offerings?
The specs for the first tablet that has been designed to run Mozilla’s Firefox operating system have been published this week by project head Asa Dotzler as the OS prepares to give Apple’s iOS, Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Google’s Android a run for their collective money. The blog posting says that the tablet will feature an ARM Cortex A7 quad core processor running at 1GHz with a PowerVR GPU and Read More>>
NFL Championship games live streams: Fox for Niners-Seahawks, CBS for Broncos-Patriots, Verizon NFL Mobile for both
Are you ready for some streaming football? In case you won't be near a TV for either of Sunday's championship games, you still may have a chance to watch the games live on a PC, a tablet or a smartphone. Here are the details: If you're a customer of a participating provider for Fox Sports Go, you can watch Sunday's NFC championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: ESPN pushing its World Cup coverage
ESPN is expecting to see growing interest in the upcoming World Cup in terms of audience numbers, and is working to fan the flames with strong pre-tournament coverage prior to the 2014 games, the last it will be broadcasting for some time, having lost the rights to the 2018 and 2022 tourneys to Fox Sports and Telemundo. But for now ESPN has been pushing to alert fans that it will have the games Read More>>
NFL should take a chance on open APIs and gigabit Wi-Fi if it really wants to engage fans
When it comes to using technology, the NFL talks a really good game -- but when it comes to decisions and deployments, the shield moves slower than a 3-yard cloud of dust. And it's frustrating fans, who are looking for something along the lines of a run-and-shoot. This week's announcement of an agreement with Extreme Networks under which the technology company became the "official supplier of Read More>>
Extreme Networks, NFL announce deal for Wi-Fi analytics
Extreme Networks and the NFL today announced a deal that makes Extreme the league's official provider of Wi-Fi analytics, a non-binding agreement that simply makes Extreme's diagnostics technology available to teams with Wi-Fi networks in their stadiums. Extreme will also be the official provider of Wi-Fi analytics for the upcoming Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, one of four NFL Read More>>
Do new deals show MLBAM set for IPO?
When you think of the WWE do you think of baseball? No? How about Sony? How about Whistle Partners- even heard of them? What they all have in common is a connection to Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm, a partnership created by all MLB teams that handles its Internet, digital and interactive technology, everything from behind the scenes backroom technology to the latest in games. If Read More>>
