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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Mobile and online usage continues to soar for ESPN & MNF
The Dec. 2 Seattle Seahawks 34-7 blowout of the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football was a huge broadcasting success for ESPN, it was the No. 1 program on at that time not only on cable but also over the air broadcast -- and it was also a smashing hit online as that audience continues to surge. The Saints-Seahawks broadcast was strong enough to garner a 9.7 U.S. rating, numbers that Read More>>
New MLB app lets fans develop GM skills
Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media Group has taken the wraps off of its latest mobile game as the league is now looking to maintain fan interest and mindshare into in the off season with the release of MLB.com Franchise MVP. Baseball fans are often known for their following of not just the major league team but all of its affiliates in the minors from short season A teams to AAA as well as Read More>>
MLB makes At Bat app available for Holidays
No doubt by this time of the year you have already seen a dozen advertisements for holiday gifts that run along the line of “Give XXX to the YYY in your life” and yes this is another one of them in that you can for the first time give MLB.com’s At Bat as a holiday gift. There is a subset of fans in every sport that only follow that sport, don’t ask me why, and they believe that the sporting Read More>>
Short Week Grab Bag: Cheap HP tablet, new hockey TV deal in Canada
Hewlett-Packard has revealed that it will be entering the Black Friday fray with a very enticing offer: a 7-inch HP Mesquite tablet for the low, low price of only $89. The tablet will be available at your local Walmart. The tablet is one of several that will be on sale that weekend that are powered by Intel’s Medfield family of microprocessors as the chip maker is using the start of the Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Aruba’s Wi-Fi smarts at the base of Trail Blazers’ new stadium experience
Though it's not been generally known for stadium deployments, being named as the Wi-Fi supplier for the new network at the Portland Trail Blazers' 20,000-seat Moda Center should give a boost to the arena business for Aruba Networks, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based network infrastructure supplier. After learning of Aruba's win in Portland we caught up via phone with Manav Khurana, vice president for Read More>>
Will sports help Apple win the indoor location market?
A few months ago Apple, Major League Baseball and the New York Mets showed off iBeacon, a technology that is embedded in Apple’s iOS 7 operating system and how it can be used for indoor location services. If you are not too familiar with iBeacon that is not surprising, Apple really has not publicized the technology that much since it was rolled out as part of the iOS7 release last September. Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Chicago’s famed Billy Goat to close? Connected gear sales soar
Launched amid concerns that it was a fad device that would generate interest but not sales the Samsung Gear smartwatch has generated sales that total over 800,000 units over the two months that the wearable device has been available. The product's sales actually exceeded company expectations and Samsung said that it would ramp up holiday promotions for the device to help maintain its momentum. Read More>>
Will mobile SportsCenter become the go-to stadium app for fans?
Now that ESPN's mobile viewership has overtaken web readers, the worldwide leader in sports is ready to put its most iconic brand -- SportsCenter -- onto its main highlights mobile app. Our question: Can that app now become the go-to app for fans in stadiums who want to track activities at games they're not at? With today's news that the old "ScoreCenter" app is now being called simply Read More>>
