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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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Mobile Sports Report Friday Grab Bag: 3D at MLB Playoffs — New Galaxy Note Coming
Is Google adding ads to Maps? WebProNews is reporting that Google appears to be preparing to monetize its Maps app. The company has applied for a patent for Online Map Advertising. It looks as if this will allow the company to insert ads directly into the maps that you are viewing. However on the plus side it looks like it might just be targeted at third party sites that use the maps as part Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: The Ryder Cup
It's really too bad that the Ryder Cup, the biennial golf competition between the U.S. and Europe, takes place in the fall -- because that means a lot of fun and interesting golf is going to get lost in the tornado of football this weekend. Fortunately, thanks to the PGA and Turner Sports there's a boatload of Ryder action taking place online, so get your browsers fired up for Friday morning Read More>>
NFL Launches ‘Thursday Night Xtra’ App, Still a Work in Progress
In what has to qualify as one of the most low-key introductions of a major sports app, the NFL has quietly launched something called Thursday Night Football Xtra, an app meant to be a "second screen" feature for your mobile device while you watch the Thursday night games on the NFL Network channel. The new app is sponsored by State Farm; you find it by clicking on the small "Xtra" chevron in the Read More>>
MLB Sets One-Day ‘Beat the Streak’ Contest With $5.6 Million Prize
Fantasy baseball game alert -- Major League Baseball's Advanced Media department is staging a one-day contest on Friday, Sept. 28, with a potential $5.6 million prize for the person who can correctly pick 57 major league baseball players who will get a hit in a game on Friday. If you go 57-for-57, MLBAM will award you $5.6 million. Sign up here. Why is this contest being staged? Mainly because Read More>>
Barnes & Noble Unveil High Definition Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble has expanded its tablet offerings with a pair of new offerings including the first high definition models as the company is once again going head to head with rival Amazon and its tablet offerings. The latest from Barnes & Noble is the Nook HD and the Nook HD+, with the Nook HD seeking to stake out the low cost leader in the 7-inch high definition space and the 9-inch Nook HD+ Read More>>
Wedge Buster Closes Series A Funding as it Launches a set of Social Media Games
While looking into RocketPlay, a company that has started developing gaming apps for social media I also started looking around for others in this field since it is relatively new and seems to offer a great deal of opportunity. Enter Wedge Buster, a startup formed last year and based in Los Angeles that has just closed its first round of funding which will give it a $2.2 million cash infusion Read More>>
World Baseball Classic sets International Venues
As the Major League Baseball season starts to head toward the playoffs, another sort of baseball playoff schedule is starting to emerge as the World Baseball Classic has finished its first round of qualifiers and has set its international sites. While little of the action will be this year, it is obvious that competitive baseball will be starting earlier than usual next season. That is not to Read More>>
Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: Cisco Scores Big Wi-Fi (and Video!) Win at Nets’ Barclays Center
The biggest vendor in the stadium Wi-Fi space scored a big win last week when Cisco announced it would supply the Wi-Fi network and the digital video services to the new Brooklyn Nets stadium, aka the Barclays Center. Just after the announcement last week we caught up via phone with David Holland, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Entertainment Solutions Group, and Stuart Read More>>
