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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CBSSports.Com Rolls Outs Fantasy Football Developer Challenge
CBSSports.Com has tossed the gauntlet to app developers focused on fantasy football as well as just app developers in general in an effort to create a contest aimed at delivering top apps for the fantasy football space with the introduction of its Fantasy Football Developers Challenge. The winners of the effort will not just get a laurel and hearty handshake but will receive cash prizes as well Read More>>
Early Thursday U.S. Open Coverage of Tiger-Phil-Bubba Group Only Available Online
Getting psyched to watch the incredible first-round pairing of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson Thursday at the U.S. Open? If so you better have an Internet connection or a smartphone with a good cell signal, because the first 90 minutes of that group's play will only be available online or through the USGA's mobile app. Though there's going to be a ton of regular TV coverage of the Read More>>
Fancru Takes up the Sports Fan Chat Challenge
Fans like to talk with fans, at least ones that share similar allegiances, and Fancru is seeking to exploit that with its sports app that will enable groups of like minded fans to chat as well as allowing you to reach out to your friends. If this sounds a bit familiar it is. There are several other apps that are seeking to establish themselves as platform for fan interaction and FanCru realizes Read More>>
USGA Considering Allowing Cell Phones on Course — But Not This Week
It looks like the USGA was ready for questions about its cell phone policy, as executives from the country's governing body of golf were all on message Monday saying generally positive things about considering allowing cell phone use during tournament days in the future -- while keeping its ban in place for this year's U.S. Open in San Francisco. "We're comfortable with the current policy [of Read More>>
U.S. Open Gets Twitter-Crazy During Day 1
Even though Mobile Sports Report is covering the U.S. Open live and in person, we almost didn't need to be at the Olympic Club to get a feeling for what was going on, thanks to the multitude of tweets resonating Monday around golf's biggest event. With no cell-phone ban yet in place (that doesn't happen until competition starts on Thursday) there were plenty of certified folks with mobile Read More>>
Apple Details New iOS 6: Releases Mountain Lion and New Notebooks
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference began this week in San Francisco, and a good example of the excitement it generates among the faithful is the fact that the 5,000 tickets that went on sale for $1,599 sold out in less than two hours, according to the Wall Street Journal. Reports are that some are now being scalped in front of the Moscone Center. The joy of this event to me is that Read More>>
New Windows 8 Tablets from Acer and Asus Just the Start
Windows 8 got a boost at the Computex trade show last week in Taipei when it was talked up by a number of hardware developers ranging from tablet developers to microprocessor purveyors, creating some momentum prior to the release of the operating system. As we noted last week Intel took the bull by the horns and talked about how 20 of its OEMs have tablets in development using its Atom Z2760 Read More>>
Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Judge Kills Patent Suit- Wave of the Future?
One of the many patent lawsuits from around the globe has been canceled by the presiding judge, although this may not end the case. In an Apple/Google lawsuit Judge Richard Posner has entered a tentative order dismissing the case because he believes that neither party can establish relief. According to Foss Patents, which had previously speculated that this might occur, this is more likely a Read More>>
