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>>

Pocket TV Seeks to Turn your TV into a Giant Android Device

June 6, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

A new crowdfunding effort has caught my eye this week with a project to turn your television into an Android tablet. It does seem a bit counterproductive at first since I can buy quite a few tablets for the cost of my TV but on looking at the details it seems that if it is priced right it could make a very solid tool for people on the go, work wise and for vacation. However the Pocket TV is an Read More>>

Another day, another MLB Contest

June 6, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

I was watching a ball game the other day and on came an ad that featured Cal Ripken Jr. I was in a local watering hole and so could not hear what he was saying as he snagged foul ball after foul ball as a spectator in the stands (and he is still wearing his jersey) Then it flashed up that this was a new contest from Major League Baseball called “Stay in the Game Sweepstakes.” This is the kind Read More>>

Casey Martin Swings and Drives Way Back to the U.S. Open

June 5, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

It's often tough to give the TV guys props. But the Golf Channel got it right. The U.S. Open sectional qualifiers all added up magnificently to the motto "Longest Day In Golf." But beyond the desire to tell viewers how hard they were working, halfway through the day one or more of the announcers could have had a little fun. The catch phrase of the day could have changed to "Best Day In Read More>>

Ericsson Study Shows Mobile Will Rule Internet

June 5, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

People always say that it’s a small world, and with the Internet it seems smaller as everyone appears to be connected in one manner or another. Now Ericsson has taken the time to quantify how well connected everybody is in a recent report. The company has just released its second annual “ Traffic and Market Report-On the Pulse of the Networked Society” that shows how connected the world is now Read More>>

Timeout Tuesday: GoPro Signs ‘Kelly F*cking Slater’ — Many More Hours of Video Consumption Ahead

June 5, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Over the last year or so, we've noticed that when we're out skiing it's not uncommon to see more and more people with the little boxy GoPro camera mounted on their helmets. But news from last week of GoPro signing 11-time surfing champion Kelly Slater to its team of athletes speaks to a bigger agenda for the cool-cam company: Hell, it's already on its way to becoming a new media powerhouse of its Read More>>

Google Buys Social Chat Developer Meebo

June 5, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

Google has moved to enhance its Google+ social media site with the purchase of Meebo, an instant messaging and communications company that will bring a host of tools and capabilities and users to Google. The terms of the deal have so far not been announced although numbers in the $100 million range have been bandied about by TechCrunch and others. Meebo, a seven year old company has raised $70 Read More>>

Nike and Microsoft Team for Fitness App on Xbox

June 5, 2012 By Paul Kapustka

The connected athlete just got a bit more connected today as Nike has entered into a partnership with Microsoft that will see the development of games for the Microsoft Xbox that uses the Nike+ technology. The alliance was announced at the E3 show in Hollywood and the first program to be developed will be called Nike+ Kinect Training and the target date for release will be this year’s holiday Read More>>