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>>
All MSR Blog Posts
Friday Grab Bag: Samsung News, New World Cup Mascot, Windows 8 Tablet Tidbits
Oddly I never think of an armadillo when I think of Brazil, yet in just a few years fans will be flocking to the country to watch the 2014 World Cup and no doubt will be inundated with images of the new World Cup mascot, an armadillo. FIFA unveiled the mascot, which it has not yet completely ruined by giving it some cute name, Monday with the assistance of Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo. Read More>>
Major League Baseball jumps on Apple’s Passbook Ticket Technology
Major League Baseball has long been a fan of Apple and its technologies, rolling out its very popular sports apps on the iOS platform first and so it is no surprise that it has quickly adopted Passbook, the mobile ticket option available as part of its iOS 6 operating system. With the operating system just being released this week MLB already has four clubs set up to support the technology, the Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: TOUR Championship, aka the $10 Million Tourney
If you decided to watch golf instead of football two weekends ago, you may have caught the star-studded leaderboard (Tiger! Rory! Phil!) at the BMW Championship, which ended with POY top candidate Rory McIlroy winning his second straight tourney, and third of the last four. Going into this week's TOUR Championship in Atlanta, Rory the lad is the favorite to walk away with the big playoff prize, Read More>>
ESPN Intros SportsCenter Feed, a Twitter and Team Stream Competitor
Here at MSR we have praised Bleacher Report's Team Stream app for doing a great job of aggregating content we care about, namely that about the teams we like. What we like a lot about Team Stream is its embrace of content from all sources, not just Bleacher Report, to give as full a range of news and opinions as possible. Now from the other side of the coin we have the Worldwide Leader, which Read More>>
Twitter and Sports: The Game Has Already Changed
If you saw my tweet earlier this morning you already know how I feel about the "sports week" promotion going on with Twitter. I think it's a bit superflous since Twitter has already changed sports in a big way, for sports media, teams and athletes, sports marketing and sports fans. Having a "sports week" for @twitter is like having an "email week" for business. Don't need to hype if you already Read More>>
The World Baseball Classic starts this Week
While Major League Baseball has not yet reached the wild card round of play, the World Baseball Classic is preparing for its first round of qualifiers with games being played in Jupiter Florida and Regensburg, Germany. For teams that are going to Family Survival Courserely on filling out their rosters with current MLB players, well you are just going to have to wait apparently, something that Read More>>
Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: Panthers (and Fans) Love Their New Wi-Fi Network
When it comes to in-stadium wireless networks, most NFL teams and their fans are still looking to the future as to when high-speed Internet access will be available. Not so the Carolina Panthers, whose stadium sports what is arguably one of the NFL's best Wi-Fi networks, with more than 460 access points providing free wireless access to every seat in Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium. Mobile Read More>>
YouTube and Gillette Team up for Soccer Channel
YouTube continues to become an alternate source of sports programming for fans and its latest effort is in partnership with Gillette to create the Gillette Football Club, a channel that will focus exclusively on soccer and its fans. The sports channel will deliver on demand high definition video to soccer fans and is designed to enable fans to register to follow their favorite teams and Read More>>
