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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Will You Watch the Red Bull Stratos Jump Live? Delayed Until Tuesday Next Week
UPDATE 3: Looks like we will have to wait until Sunday at the earliest: https://twitter.com/RedBullStratos/status/256079313617711105 UPDATE 2: Launch was canceled Tuesday due to strong winds. Try again tomorrow? UPDATE: Follow the live feed on YouTube. As of 10:15 PT, the launch looks like a go, with Baumgartner getting into the capsule. I'm still not sure if the upcoming Red Bull Read More>>
Watching NASCAR: Talladega Looms This Weekend
The art of conserving fuel in NASCAR races is often more of a gamble as drivers toss the dice and often come up short of the checkered flag, but last week in Dover Brad Keselowski gave a clinic on how to very accurately gauge how far the last drops will take him, and it took him to a first place finish. The win resulted in him taking over the points leadership from Jimmie Johnson, who fell to Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Atlantic 10 Inks Broadcast Deals — Microsoft Surface/Windows 8 Date Unveiled
The Atlantic 10 Conference has just closed a pair of broadcast deals that will enable it to maintain a strong presence on broadcast television. The 9-year deal with NBC Sports calls for the network to nationally televise men’s and women’s basketball games on the NBC Sports Network, as well as select local games on NBC Sports Regional Networks. Included will be the ability to live stream games on Read More>>
SideBets Adds Facebook, Twitter Integration to Mobile Social Betting App
The year-old SideBets mobile sports betting app has added functionality that allows users to send messages about their successful wagers to Facebook and Twitter, according to company executives. Announced today, the new version of SideBets also supports the creation of betting "groups" and the ability to send a single bet to a group of friends, with a "first accept" feature allowing the first Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: The Justin Timberlake Shriners Open
Well we were wrong -- the Ryder Cup certainly was good enough TV to make football irrelevant, especially thanks to the epic U.S. team collapse during Sunday's singles. I can't remember staying glued to the tube as long as I did Sunday, watching the slow-motion train wreck as formerly talented players like Brandt Snedeker, Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson all went off the rails in spectacular fashion. Read More>>
Google Enters Facial Recognition Space with Viewdle Buy
Google’s Motorola Mobility unit has purchased Silicon Valley-based developer Viewdle, a company that creates face detection software for an estimated price of between $35 and $40 million. Gesture and facial recognition appears to be the next technology that smartphones and other device manufacturers will be using as they seek to differentiate themselves as rivals have also been moving down this Read More>>
BuddyTV Preps for MLB playoffs — Lets You Know When Games are On
BuddyTV, an app that enables sports fans to quickly find out what games are available via local broadcast and cable carriers is launching a feature that will enable fans of Major League Baseball to track the playoff games that are slated to begin later this week. The MLB Quicklist will be part of the company’s current app, BuddyTV Guide, and will provide the broadcast information of the games, Read More>>
Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: Cal’s Memorial Stadium Gets Multi-Beamed
It's not necessarily Wi-Fi but when it comes to bringing more wireless capacity to stadiums who are we to quibble? While at an event at the AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto last week where Ma Bell was showing off a bunch of innovative wireless stuff we saw in the flesh (well in the silicon and plastic, I guess) some of the new multi-beam antennas AT&T developed earlier this year. Turns out those Read More>>
