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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NBA Fans Leap onto Digital Bandwagon with Soaring Viewership
As we mentioned a few weeks ago the NBA has moved to provide access to its playoffs to a wide variety of platforms including iOS mobile devices, PCs and Kindles. The results are now in and it has resulted in record setting traffic. The push was done by NBA Digital, a group that is jointly managed by the league and Turner Sports and resulted in the just concluded NBA Championship series having Read More>>
HP Goes Big with 21.5-inch Android Tablet
Hewlett-Packard appears to be bucking the trend once again in the tablet space, although this time it looks as if it will have less to lose than its first disastrous foray into the market. The company has introduced the HP Slate 21 AIO (All-in-One) that features a 21-inch display. While tablets are gaining ground as a notebook replacement, this more than full sized offering could serve as a Read More>>
New Tablets from Lenovo and Vizio Hit Market
Last week Lenovo released Miix, its hybrid 10-inch tablet that can also serve as a laptop while Vizio has started shipping its 11.8-inch tablet that it first showed at the beginning of the year at the CES show in Las Vegas. It seemed just a year ago that tablet releases were something that could be planned easily on a calendar, one company would announce a product release date and one of the few Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: FIFA World Cup Tiff and will Loon Fly?
Microsoft is looking at educational institutions in an effort to jump start sales, or at least adoption, of its Surface RT tablets. According to BGR.com the company has started a policy of steep discounts to schools in an effort to push that platform’s acceptance. How steep you ask? The tablet is available to schools and universities from now until August 31st starting at $199 for the 32GB Read More>>
MSR, SEAT Conference Announce Strategic Partnership
Astute MSR readers may have noticed the new display ad on the top right hand side of the site, which promotes the upcoming SEAT 2013 conference. Now the rest of the story: Mobile Sports Report and SEAT are teaming up, with a strategic partnership to produce a special report as well as exclusive content centered around the sports technology executive audience. We've long been fans of SEAT's Read More>>
Streaming Stanley Cup Playoff App a Big Hit for NBC Sports
For the first time the ability to watch all of the Stanley Cup playoff games live from a variety of mobile devices as well as computers has been warmly greeted by fans according to the early numbers released by NBC. Over 40 million minutes have been streamed through the first three rounds. While in the past there has been some streaming, with 12 games shown last year, viewership is up 289% Read More>>
49ers Embrace Social Media In Deal With Yahoo
Have you ever dreamed of seeing your name, or at least your picture, up in lights for all to see? Well for 49er fans, and I guess any fan that attends games at the new 49er Levi’s Stadium that has become a possibility due to a deal between the team and Yahoo. Yahoo has signed on with the team as the team and stadium’s "exclusive online sports content, social networking, and photo and video Read More>>
ESPN Scores Record Viewership for College Baseball Post Season
ESPN reports that the Regional and super Regional games that are the lead in to the College World Series had record viewership on its family of channels and that it expects to see strong viewership up to the conclusion that will take place in Omaha with prime-time telecasts of the best-of-three Finals on Monday, June 24, through Wednesday, June 26. The network broadcast all of the games in both Read More>>
