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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Watching Golf this Week: The Open Championship, aka The British Open
Are you ready for the third major of the year? It all kicks off Thursday morning at one of the stranger-named courses, Royal Lytham & St. Annes (not St. Anne's), which its own website describes as "It is not a conventionally beautiful golf course, surrounded as it is by suburban housing and flanked by a railway line, but it has a charm all of its own." Never you mind. This is the British Open, aka Read More>>
Spartan Races heads to London for some Pre-Olympics Competition
Top athletes are lining up for some grueling sports this weekend in London, and they are not here for something as easy as the Olympics, but rather the latest in this season’s Spartan Races as the event heads over seas. The event is Sunday July 22 and will actually take place in Surrey and will be held by Priority Events Ltd. The distance will be 5k and the start time will be 10 am for the Read More>>
Tour de France Nears Paris Finale But Monster Final Mountain Stage Remains
The final mountain stage and traditional penultimate time trial stage two days later will highlight beginning Thursday the final four days of the 99th Tour de France and its unique current overall title competition. Not since the mid-1980s, when cycling icons Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond battled for supremacy, has the Tour de France featured teammates in the top two spots. Bradley Wiggins Read More>>
Augmented Sports App Helps Celebrate Start of French Soccer Season
GoldRun and Front Row Marketing Services have teamed with The Ligue de Football Professionnel to create an app that enables fans to create uploadable images of themselves and the Trophee Des Champions that is awarded to the winner of an annual grudge match. The Trophee Des Champions is the award given to the winner of the annual match between the Ligue 1 champion and the winner of the Copue de Read More>>
Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers: Niners-Brocade News, Coming Soon
Welcome to "Wednesday Wi-Fi Whispers," our clever title for a new rumors and news snippets column debuting... right about now. The idea here is to keep this a bit more informal than our regular, solid news coverage, to give a home to those whispers of things we hear that might be happening in the world of stadium Wi-Fi. First up is the yet-to-come formal announcement of the stadium-technology Read More>>
Ooyala, R&A Team up for British Open App — But You Still Need a Cable Contract to Watch Live Golf
Though we originally got excited here at MSR when we heard that the British Open's app might feature another way to get live video of the event, as we expected, there is no getting around the need for a qualifying ESPN cable contract to watch the British Open via a mobile platform. As we said earlier today, this is ESPN's baby and they are not going to let someone else end-run their mobile video Read More>>
Autodesk Snaps Up Socialcam for a Cool $60 Million
3D design powerhouse Autodesk has purchased startup Socialcam for $60 million in a deal that is expected to close in the third quarter that ends Oct. 31, 2012, according to a release from Autodesk. Socialcam has only been on the scene since last year, but its technology that provides mobile social video capture, editing and sharing app and service has proven to be very popular with users. It Read More>>
Velocomp’s iBike Powerhouse System Hits Market
Velocomp has delivered its iBike Powerhouse to the market just in time to train another generation of Tour de France hopefuls along with the much more likely crowd of weekend riders looking to step up their game. The iBike Powerhouse is a portable computerized cycling fitness system that runs on either an iPod Touch or an iPhone and is designed to adjust automatically to an individual user’s Read More>>
