Mobile Sports Report

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>>

Red Bull Stratos Jump: Will Conditions Ever Be Right?

October 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

If there ever was a deflating event it was Tuesday's non-launch of the Red Bull Stratos experiment, which purports to use a big balloon to lift daredevil Felix Baumgartner some 20 miles into the sky, a height from which he will attempt the highest free fall ever. But after being scrubbed Monday the Red Bull crew tried to get Baumgartner off the ground Tuesday -- but after some limp inflating of Read More>>

Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: Ruckus Files for IPO, Qualcomm Stadium Gets DAS

October 10, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

It's about as far from a whisper as you can get, but in the Wi-Fi world the big news of the week was Wi-Fi vendor Ruckus Wireless filing for a $100 million IPO last Friday. As you've read here earlier Ruckus is heavily involved with the growing market for big-space Wi-Fi (like stadiums, racetracks and other event areas) and with healthy revenues ($120 million in 2011) the long-rumored move became Read More>>

New GoPro App Turns Phone Into Camera Remote Control

October 10, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

If you are a fan or user of the GoPro mobile cameras, you now have a potentially cool new toy -- the new GoPro smartphone app, which lets your phone act as a remote control for the company's mobile HD Hero2 cameras. The short video above does a great job of showing you what's possible with the new app. Here's some verbiage from the official GoPro announcement page: Features include full Read More>>

Bubba Watson Takes His Driver to the Cake — And a Pepper, and a Pineapple…

October 9, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Pro golfer Bubba Watson channels his inner Gallagher on the Tonight Show. Enjoy. Read More>>

2Bet2 Focuses on Social Betting on Games

October 9, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Socialized betting is undergoing an interesting change, migrating from the office water cooler, if one actually exists, and onto social media sites such as Facebook and Google +, and one of the recent entrants into that field is 2Bet2, bringing out its Facebook offering around the start of the year. It has many of the features that are currently coming on line in rival sports apps using odds to Read More>>

Why Verizon Makes You Turn on GPS for NFL Mobile: So They Can Market the Data

October 8, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

In using the excellent (if sometimes buggy) NFL Mobile app this football season, I did notice one new annoying thing: The app requires you to turn on location services before it lets you watch games, a relationship I struggled to understand since there is no geographic blackout or anything else rights-related with the games that are carried by the app. Turns out, the reason for the link is that Read More>>

Heroes of Newerth maker S2 announces eSports tournament

October 8, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

For gamers looking for additional challenges, and possibly prize money, S2 has some good news for you as the games developer has announced a tournament for its Heroes of Newerth online multiplayer game. The HoN Tour is designed for players with different skill levels so that beginners to the game or even ones that are new to Multiplayer Online Battle Arena play are not left out of the Read More>>