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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Low Cost Lenovo 7-inch Tablet Almost Here
If you are ever wondering how news services and even blogs get advanced information about upcoming products it is often because the devices have to go through approval at the FCC, which has to make the records of approvals public. The forthcoming Lenovo A1000 is no exception. The A1000 is no secret, the company talked about it and two additional tablets last month at the Mobile World Congress Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: No $99 Kindle Fire, ESPN Carries Frisbee
Screen savers have come a long way since the days of flying toasters. Apple has just filed a patent entitled "Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device" that is designed to recognize when a iPhone, or other device, is in freefall and takes automatic steps to save the screen, according to Apple Insider. It looks like the technology discussed in the patent is designed to do one of two things, Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: Arnold Palmer Invitational, aka Another Tiger Favorite
What are you doing watching golf this week -- is your bracket already busted? Well if you need a fix of sports that doesn't involve one shining moment, tune in to the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, and see if Tiger Woods can notch his eighth victory in this tournament. Thanks to the drawing power of The King, aka Arnold Palmer, there's a stellar field at Bay Hill, though curiously not Read More>>
NCAA Hoops: Where and What 2 Watch
Here's a roundup of where and what to watch for the first day of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. HERE IS THE MARCH MADNESS LIVE ONLINE SITE Just follow the directions for cable subscriber confirmation. If you aren't a cable subscriber remember you get four hours' grace time watching free online. The main page (scroll down) has a handy "channel finder" feature that will shorten your Read More>>
Yahoo! Sports’ Tournament Pick’Em Comes with Possible $10K Payoff
Yahoo! Sports is one of the major online sports sites and so it is of no surprise that it is also one of the major hosting sites for NCAA Tournament contests with a series of options for fans to compete against friends and strangers. At first blush it has the features that you would expect a site that is hosting tournament pools to have including the ability to create a private group to play Read More>>
Nike Takes Next Step in Digital Apps with Nike + Accelerator
Last year Nike introduced the Nike + platform and NikeFuel, and activity measurement technology that allows athletes to track their results in real time. Now the company has reached out to expand this effort with the Nike + Accelerator program that will bring in third party developers into the fold. Nike is working with TechStars, a company that assists startup tech companies in raising seed Read More>>
New 2013 ESPN Bracket Bound app for Smartphones and Tablets now available
It comes as no surprise that ESPN is reaching out to mobile users to offer leagues for users to enter for the upcoming NCAA Basketball Tournaments, but it is nice to know that there are features that will appeal to the diehard basketball fan as well as to people that only pay attention at this time of year. The free “ESPN Bracket Bound” app, designed for use with both Android and Apple’s iOS Read More>>
Reilly, Trump Fall Short in Bid to Renovate Wrigley Field
Well, Chicago, it almost happened. You know what I'm talking about, the plans by sportswriter Rick Reilly to buy the Cubs and turn them into a winner by "making necessary improvements" to Wrigley Field. Turns out that Reilly's last ESPN column wasn't just opinion, it was strategy -- who knew that Reilly had a partnership already in the works with Donald Trump to do a leveraged buyout of current Read More>>
