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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Friday Grab Bag: Dolphins with iPads, New NFL Game Times
The Miami Dolphins are the latest NFL team to jump on the iPad train as the team has adopted the tablets as an alternative to the huge binders that had been the traditional form of NFL playbooks. The team joins a growing number of NFL teams that have taken this approach including the Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Bucs and the Green Bay Packers. However the Dolphins are also apparently taking a hard Read More>>
Watching NASCAR this Week: The Quaker State 400
Clint Bowyer dominated the Sonoma racetrack at last weekend’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 in Sonoma yet still had to withstand a strong performance from Kurt Busch to earn the green flag. He led 71 of the 119 laps in a race that witnessed few cautions and 8 lead changes and which had an average speed of 86 mph, or as a friend said, lap car speeds. It was a near thing for Bowyer as he ran out of gas at Read More>>
Recon Instruments Seeks to Enlarge Heads-Up Display App Space with SDK
Recon Instruments has taken an important step in expanding the demand for its Heads up Display technology by opening it up for developers with the release of a software developers kit (SDK) for Android that will open up the platform to third party developers. Possibly lost amid all of the splash that Google provided at the opening of its Google I/O show yesterday Recon used the event, packed Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: It’s ‘Game On’ for Tiger at AT&T National
If Arnie has a tournament and so does Jack, why not Tiger? The one PGA Tour stop most closely associated with Woods -- the AT&T National, at Congressional outside D.C. -- has its charismatic host back playing this year, probably among the favorites to win so long as the U.S. Open weekend Tiger doesn't reappear. There's no getting away from El Tigre this week -- from the GAME ON pose in the AT&T Read More>>
ESPN’s Euro 2012 Broadcasts Drawing Strong Viewership
ESPN is continuing to draw strong viewership for its Euro 2012 soccer broadcast through last weekend’s quarterfinals, with the Italy versus England match last Sunday leading the way. The quarterfinal rounds witnessed a slight increase in viewership overall, compared to the opening round, 1.4 million versus 1.3 million, while the top match on Sunday drew an average of 2.96 million Read More>>
Google Delivers 7-inch tablet, the Nexus 7; Google Q Streaming Media CE device
Google has delivered a host of new features for its Android operating system as well as a co-developed 7-inch tablet and its first consumer electronics device that is designed to unify and play the data that you might have stored in the cloud. The tablet was developed along with partner Asus and is called the Nexus 7, a 7-inch tablet that will take on everything from products from rival’s Read More>>
The NBA Draft is Tomorrow but ESPN Starts Tonight
The NBA draft is upon us once again and in some ways it has not achieved the overall hype level that the NFL has achieved, but it also often makes for a much better viewing spectacle as there is often a host of wildcards. The official draft begins Thursday night at 7 pm ET and will be hosted, as it has for the last decade, by ESPN. A predraft show will be aired tonight at 7 pm ET for those of Read More>>
PGA Tour to Part Ways with Turner, Manage its Own Digital Properties
We've seen this movie before, when the NFL started taking control of its own content and starting the NFL Network. Now golf's big professional tour, the PGA Tour, has announced plans to completely take over production of its own digital properties, ending a relationship it had with Turner Sports since 2006. It's perhaps a small surprise that golf's biggest operator should want more control, Read More>>
