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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March Madness Maintains Torrid Mobile Viewing Pace
This year’s March Madness has been one of the best in over two decades in terms of television viewers but it is the best all time in terms of mobile access as increasingly fans use mobile devices to track games and video of their favorite teams or hot match ups. The first week’s results were strong, as we recounted here, and things have not only not slowed, but as the tournament heads towards Read More>>
Favourit Bets App Draws Bettors to Gambling Platform
Favourit, a newly launched App from a pair of brothers in Melbourne Australia is reaching out to sports gamblers with an app that both brings together gamblers and sites to take the bets and friends that want to compete together using social media. Founded in 2012 by brothers Toby and Josh Simmons, Favourit is touting itself as the Social sports betting network it has already attracted $3.6 Read More>>
MLB Updates a Trio of Mobile Apps Ahead for Opening Day
Major League Baseball’s 2013 season has started and the league has updated a number of its successful programs from last year as it seeks to increase its appeal to fans that use mobile connected smart devices. The heart of the effort is its MLB.com at Bat 13, which for most mobile users has been available since Spring Training started. At Bat has a host of features that we have recounted Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: More Smart Watches and Games to Play at Ball Parks
Still a year out Google Glass is already raising eyebrows and causing concern in legislative offices locally and nationally. Already West Virginia is looking at banning them from being worn while driving, and that could just be the start. We have long questioned what casinos would do with players that can instantly see the odds flashed on their glasses but it appears there is a whole realm of Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: Rory Returns at Shell Houston Open
Call it the "pull my finger" tournament -- all eyes (and other body parts) are on former No. 1 Rory McIlroy as he returns to action at the Shell Houston Open this weekend. Missing from the field is new world No. 1, Tiger Woods, who won at Arnie's house last week and then sent the tweet of the year to Rory, basically telling him to get in gear if he wants this Nike rivalry to take off. With two Read More>>
March Madness a Huge Hit with Online and Mobile Users
To the surprise of probably no one the first round of the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball tournament has see resounding television viewership numbers (best in 18 years), but what might pass unnoticed is how strong its mobile and online viewership is as well. Strong actually may be understating it, in the first week viewership via PCs, smartphones and tablets accounted for 10 million hours of Read More>>
Wi-Fi Whispers: Where’s Brocade in Niners’ New Stadium Plans? Plus More NFL Wi-Fi with Cisco in Atlanta, Verizon in Detroit
There was one thing missing from the great Ars Technica blowout on the proposed Wi-Fi network at the new stadium being built for the San Francisco 49ers: Any mention of networking partner Brocade, which made a big deal about how it was going to help the Niners with a state-of-the-art stadium network. In a Twitter exchange with the story's author, Jon Brodkin, he said that the Niners' networking Read More>>
PCs Sales Suffer as Tablets and Smartphone Sales continue to Soar
A recent press release from market research company IDC highlights the growing importance of tablets to users seeking to stay connected with a smart device as they have become a driving force in a huge and growing market. The latest results from IDC’s Smart Connected Device Tracker shows that overall shipments of smart connected devices grew 29.1% last year and that units edged past the 1 Read More>>
