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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Friday Grab Bag: New iPhones Next Week-FIFA Qualifiers this Weekend
The Major League Baseball Advanced Media arm has signed a multiyear deal with baseball sabermetrics research firm Baseball Prospectus that will call for the two of them to share data and analysis that will result in new features from both parties. The relation starts immediately with Postseason Probabilities, an interactive visualization of each teams’ current standings and their chances of Read More>>
Samsung Starts the Clock on the Smartwatch Battle
Samsung the first among the major consumer electronics players to take the wraps off of its smartwatch with its unveiling yesterday of the Galaxy Gear smart watch as that space takes a major step forward becoming a reality. The Galaxy Gear features a 1.63-inch display and is designed to connect to a Galaxy phone providing e-mail alerts and news routed from that device. However it is more than a Read More>>
Will Enhanced Access to Live Sports Boost Xbox Sales?
Microsoft has enhanced a pair of sports apps that will be made available added an along with its pending Xbox release due later this fall with reworked ESPN apps as well as one that will enable users to access a good deal of NFL video and information, including fantasy football features The ESPN app is enhanced from the earlier app available for Xbox 360 and provides a great deal of Read More>>
LG Helps Kick off the Fall Rollout Season with LG G Pad 8.3
The IFA show in Berlin is almost upon us and as usual a number of major tablet developers have indicated that it will be the venue for new product rollouts, but at least one, LG, has jumped the gun and taken the wraps off of its newest pad just prior to the show. Of course it will be displaying the device at the show later this week. Designed to compete at the larger end of the mini tablet pace Read More>>
Wi-Fi in Stadiums — It’s Not About Missing the Game, it’s About Staying Connected
Matthew Casey does an excellent job of summarizing the current state of Wi-Fi in the NFL in his post over on CNN.com, with some comments from yours truly as part of the package. While I think Matthew did a great job on the article, I was struck by how many of the comments are still of the "I go to the games to watch football, not to watch my phone" tenor. People: Nobody goes to the stadium just Read More>>
MLBAM Continues to Leverage Capabilities into New Fields
Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) is leveraging its huge video broadcasting and Internet infrastructure and has branched out into a very different field this week when it acquired the distribution rights to a live concert. The concert deal was signed with the Global Poverty Project, which for the second year in a row is hosting a concert that is called the Global Citizen Festival Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag- MLB.TV at a Discount!
The Fall Classic is coming into sight and if your team is looking to make the playoffs (mine is not) then you might want to consider this offer from MLB. It is offering its TV package, MLB.TV, for $19.99. Subscribers can watch games not just on a TV but also laptops, iPhones and iPads as well as the Xbox 360. Motorola to Xoom no more If you have a Motorola Xoom tablet it might be a Read More>>
PGA Tour Develops Social Media Hub in time for FedExCup
Two-year-old startup Mass Relevance has teamed with the PGA to create the PGA Tour Social Hub, a website that will serve as a central aggregation point for a wide variety of social media content that pertains to the PGA tour. The Hub is being launched in time for fans to use it to follow the action for the FedExCup Playoffs, which begin today with The Barclays at Liberty National in New Jersey Read More>>
