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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Pac-12 Digital Network Ready for Primetime with help from Ooyala
June 8, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
The Pac-12 has finally taken the wraps of its pending network effort in time for the advent of the 2012-2013 BCS football season with the revelation of the Pac-12 Digital Network that it created in partnership with Ooyala. We reported on the early plans of the Pac-12 at the start of the start of the year as the conference started filling out its management team for the Pac-12 Enterprises, the Read More>>

NASCAR Tackles the Tricky Triangle-Poconos here We Come
June 8, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Jimmie Johnson did what he does best in Dover, he won, for the seventh time to be exact. Leading for more than half the 400 laps he is in some pretty august company as driver Richard Petty and Bobby Allison also have seven. It looked as if Jeff Gordon was going to fight him to the finish line but a loose tire killed any real chance he had because after the pit stop he was mired in traffic. The Read More>>

Friday Grab Bag: Replacement Refs, Sports Conspiracy and Windows 8 Coming
June 8, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
NFL’s contract talks with refs breaks down The week started off with some bad news as it appears that the NFL and its referee's union have not been able to come to a meeting of the minds in regards to the next contract for the refs. The most current one expired on May 31. The two sides apparently met with a mediator to try and reach an agreement but that has not panned out and according to Read More>>

The Euro 2012 Tournament Starts this Weekend-ESPN Will be there for all of the Matches
June 7, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship aka the Euro 2012 starts today to see which national soccer team will emerge victorious in the 14th European Championship which sees 16 nations vying for the title. In the next championship, in 2016, the field will expand to 24 teams. Aside from bragging rights the winner gets something much more substantial, an automatic entry into the 2013 FIFA Read More>>

Intel Predicts a Wave of Windows 8 Tablets with Intel Inside
June 7, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Intel started talking about a potential major move in the tablet space at January’s Consumer Electronics Show when CEO Paul Otellini took the stage for his keynote, but most of the hype that day was centered around its ultrabook slim form notebooks. Now fast forward several months and a half a world away and the company is making some bold pronouncements in the tablet space at the Computex show Read More>>

Watching Golf this Week: The FedEx St. Jude Classic, aka The Last U.S. Open Tune-Up
June 7, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Normally a tourney like the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis would be a B-list field, but because it's the week before the U.S. Open, there's a lot of big guns looking to get their games back on track before the next major. So step right up, Rory McIlroy, he of the missed cuts. Can the defending U.S. Open champ get his groove shakin' in Memphis? If so he'll need to get by some other big names Read More>>

Google Snaps up another Startup-This time QuickOffice
June 6, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Google has once again used its pocketbook as an extension of its research and development division and has now purchased QuickOffice, a developer of technology that enables the interoperability of popular file formats and other productivity software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it marks the second purchase in as many days by Google, this one following its deal to buy Meebo Read More>>

AP: Phil Texted Commissioner About… Too Many Cell Phones on the Course
June 6, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
The Associated Press is reporting today that Phil Mickelson sent PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem a text during last Thursday's opening round of the Memorial, complaining about the fans' unruly use of digital devices. From the AP story: According to four people with direct knowledge, Mickelson sent a text message to PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem from the sixth fairway at Muirfield Village Read More>>






