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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Bogey Play: PGA Threatens to Ban Reporters Who Tweet Results
Apparently, the PGA Tour is still struggling to figure out this whole digital-media thing. According to golf reporters at the tour's Farmers Insurance Open Thursday, the PGA sent an email threatening to pull credentials from reporters who were sending live result Tweets from the course. Stephanie Wei, a freelance golf writer who does work for Sports Illustrated Golf+ (and is likely to have an Read More>>
MLB.Com’s At Bat Expands Ballpark with BlackBerry 10 Support
Research in Motion has a lot riding on the upcoming release of its next generation BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry 10, but it now gains support from an important app market from which it has in the past been a virtual non-player, sports. RIM is expected to unveil its latest smartphone next week at an event in New York City showing both a pair of handsets as well as its latest iteration Read More>>
Watching Golf This Week: Phil’s Tax Advice, the Farmers Insurance Open and More Golf Online… if you have Comcast
Too bad Phil Mickelson's such a nice guy -- nobody can really stay mad at him for long, even if he makes Latrell Sprewell-type remarks about the money woes of a millionaire. Maybe you heard about Phil's kinda tax-rant from this past weekend? Wednesday the guy everyone loves to love in golf rebounded with a press conference where he blamed himself for saying dumb things, tossed in a few jokes and Read More>>
Indy 500 Will be Coming to You via Instagram
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has entered into a deal with social media management company Venueseen to have photos taken at the venerable brickyard to be used in a marketing campaign. As part of the program Venueseen will open its API for the marketing campaign, a possible sign of things to come. The marketing program, which centers around a sweepstake called Indy500orBust that asks fans to Read More>>
Sony Unveils Latest Tablet-The Xperia Z (Non-Smartphone Version)
Sony released a smartphone at CES called the Xperia Z and has now followed that release up with its latest tablet offering, the Xperia Tablet Z as the company continues to battle for relevancy in the tablet space. The tablet is a light, thin device that features a 10.-1 inch display with a 1920 x 1200 pixel high definition display, 2GB of RAM, and a 1.5GHz quad core processor. It will run the Read More>>
NFL.com adds Exclusive ‘Fan Pass’ Content for Super Bowl
In case you can't get enough Super Bowl info from your regular media outlets the National Football League is providing some new content and Super Bowl event interactivity via something it is calling the NFL Fan Pass, available at NFL.com/fanpass. In addition to daily "exclusive" interviews, video segments and photos, the NFL says Fan Pass will let fans submit questions to celebs and players and Read More>>
AT&T adds DAS Coverage to New Orleans for Super Bowl Crowds
AT&T has beefed up its cellular coverage in the New Orleans downtown area by installing several Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) to help handle the expected crowds for the forthcoming Super Bowl on Feb. 3. According to an AT&T press release Ma Bell has added some outdoor DAS systems as well as DAS deployments inside New Orleans hotels to help ensure that Super Bowl fans stay connected with Read More>>
CBS Plans Big Online Blitz for Super Bowl: Watch Online, Mobile, and oh yeah… on TV
With the Harbaugh Bowl lineup now set, NFL fans will be glad to know that CBS is planning to stream this year's Super Bowl live online, for free, at this website, with apparently no requirement to download any software like last year's broadcast. The Feb. 3 game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, with lots of stuff Read More>>
