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>>

PrePlay takes Aim at Major League Baseball with Latest App

September 13, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

PrePlay, one of the early app developers in the growing predictive sports space has returned with a new program entitled MLB PrePlay that is aimed at the fans of Major League Baseball and was launched in conjunction with MLB’s digital media arm Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The alignment with MLBAM is a coup of sorts for the developer because not only will it have the blessing of the Read More>>

As Expected Apple Unveils iPhone 5 in a More Mature Smartphone Market

September 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Almost a year after it delivered the iPhone 4S, Apple is back on stage with its next generation iPhone, the iPhone 5 and the question that many have is not how good will it be but rather how fast will it sell. That aside there are a lot of interesting features in the new phone and now we can finally separate the facts from the rumors, which have been bouncing around the Internet almost since Read More>>

Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: New Networks for Bobcats, Patriots and Vols

September 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Wi-Fi gear supplier Ruckus Wireless has racked up another stadium win, this time as the technology behind a new Wi-Fi network at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., home of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. The new network was live just in time to supply attendees at last week's Democratic convention with a signal much stronger than cellular. According to a report by John Cox in Network Read More>>

Station Casinos Readying Mobile Betting App… for Nevada

September 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Legalized sports gambling on mobile devices -- one of those Holy Grail ideas for the mobile sports business -- is going to get another lift soon when Station Casinos LLC brings its mobile betting app to full release later this fall. According to a report by Chris Sieroty in the Las Vegas Journal-Review Tuesday, Station Casinos is in field trials for its mobile betting app, called Sports Read More>>

Intel Talks Gesture and Facial Recognition, Low Powered Chips at Developer Forum

September 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

The Intel Developers Forum officially launched today, although its Labs group had a Day Zero event yesterday, and as expected the company rolled out low powered processors along with some other interesting technologies on stage. David Perlmutter, Intel’s head of its architectural group gave the opening keynote and showed quite an array of interesting technologies, not all of them home grown, Read More>>

Zynga makes a bet with RocketPlay’s virtual Sports Casino

September 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Once the darling of the online set with its Farmville and other mobile and online applications, Zynga has hit hard times of late as its stock has dropped 72 % since its IPO in December and recently its executives have been fleeing the building, with seven gone since August. The company is the largest maker of games for Facebook, and it is known for programs such as Mafia Wars, CastleVille, Read More>>

NBC’s Sunday Night Football Expands Social Media Presence

September 10, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

I was reading an old NBC Sports press release this morning and an interesting note caught my eye on its growing use of social media as a tool in reaching fans. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram all will feature much more prominently in the networks pro football efforts. The first thing I saw was that for what seems like a first you will be able to get live video updates from the sidelines of Read More>>