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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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Barnes & Noble Expected to Offer Nook Video Services
September 25, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Barnes & Noble is planning on offering a video streaming and downloading service later in the fall as it faces increased competition not just from Amazon but also from the expected Apple iPad Mini and the upcoming Windows 8 tablets from Microsoft and its OEMs. The company, which has been pondering the fate of its Nook e-reader for some time despite its popularity when released, said that the Read More>>

iPad now on Duke’s hard court
September 25, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Duke University’s men’s basketball team is the latest college sports team to adopt a tablet as a major training tool as the school revealed this week that it was going to eliminate notebooks and move over to Apple’s iPad. The school will be providing the latest version of the iPad with a 64GB storage capacity and players will have a range of information ranging from the static such as Read More>>

The Night the NFL’s Replacement Refs Blew Up Twitter
September 24, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
At 9:24 p.m. Pacific time Monday night, here is what is trending on Twitter: One promoted stream, followed by: #MNF, Roger Goodell, Packers, XFL, #MyExTaughtMe, #ThingsBetterThanReplacementRefs, Vince McMahon, Mike McCarthy, Hail Mary. If you didn't watch the end of Monday Night Football Twitter can tell you all about it: I don't even need to hear from Twitter PR that tonight will be the Read More>>
Great Barclays Center Inside Tech Look — From the Verge
September 24, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
A great view of the technology behind the new Barclays Center, courtesy of the tech pub The Verge. It's a little bit goofy and overproduced (why can't tech reports about sports just report the news?) and a bit of a commercial (everything's great before you actually test it) but a good look nonetheless. Read More>>

Ryder Cup Gets Big Online Push — Live Video and Social Media Too
September 24, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Following on their successful joint effort at the season's last major, the PGA and Turner Sports will kick out the online jams for this week's Ryder Cup matches, with a lot of free online live video and some social-media bells and whistles that include a U.S. vs. Europe Twitter contest. According to a press release from Turner and the PGA, the Rydercup.com website will be the host of a wide Read More>>
Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: New Kickstarter Rules, Wal-Mart Kicks out Kindle
September 24, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Kickstarter has imposed a set of rules that will limit the type of products that can be promoted for funding on the crowdfunding site. Gone now will be renderings of projects that are being promoted and instead the site will require an actual working prototype of the project. It will now also require that the project creators provide a “Risks and Challenges” section that will enable potential Read More>>

Wahoo Fitness Expands Cycling Offerings with RFLKT Bike Computer
September 21, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
The market for smartphone-based cycling computers is a crowded one but with enhancements in phones constantly coming along, developers continually have room to differentiate their products from rivals, and that is what Wahoo Fitness is looking to do with its latest offering. Wahoo has long been a developer in this space using the iPhone as a core piece of its offering and its latest is no Read More>>

Watching NASCAR: The Chase Week 2-The Sylvania 300
September 21, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
What a difference a week makes, I imagine that once the drivers are behind the wheel a race is a race, aside from the various differences in the track that they will be running on that day. However in the last week before the Chase, Jeff Gordon needed a very good finish to make it and Kyle Busch needed a solid race to keep Gordon out and stay in the Chase himself. It did not work out for Read More>>






