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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ESPN Sees Strong Online Soccer Viewership Ahead of Euro 2012
We have been tracking ESPN’s growing focus on soccer with interest and now the company has put forth some numbers showing that it is getting solid feedback from its efforts, and that could pay off even greater in the next few weeks. The network said that this season’s Barclays Premier League 2011-2012 season had the highest numbers in the three years that it has carried the league. Of course if Read More>>
Will the UFL Morph into USFL?
I mentioned the apparent resurrection of the USFL to a friend a few days ago and he said “Well they played last year, didn’t they?” It took me a second to realize that he was referring to the United Football League (UFL), and what did happen to that league. I have to admit that I did not follow the UFL, and was only vaguely aware of it when I would see the odd score posted someone and have to Read More>>
Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Facebook buys Karma
Lost amid all of the noise about Facebook’s huge IPO was the fact that the company is continuing to address a shortcoming in the mobile app space. It has purchased a company called Karma that has developed an e-commerce platform as part of its overall presence. The management team at Karma has already developed one successful app and the current focus, on gifting, seems to be a good match since Read More>>
MLB’s Latest Playoff Move a Head Scratcher
Major League Baseball has announced its playoff broadcast partners for the year 2012 and 2013, and normally that would seem to be a rather innocuous announcement, until you notice that it will be broadcasting two of the games itself. Rather the MLB Network, which is a property of MLB, will get two of the games, and not the Wild Card games that have been added to the schedule but two of the more Read More>>
The All-Star Race is Here. NASCAR Starts its Engines in Charlotte
Last weekend in Darlington was a bit of surprise for both races, calm at the start and then havoc later on. Ok now that I think of it that is not too surprising. Anyway in the Sprint Cup Bojangle’s Southern 500 Jimmie Johnson came through for Hendrick Sports, winning its 200th race. Johnson benefited from the late yellow flags to help him overcome fuel issues late in the race and I would like Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Tons of Tablet Tidbits
So how many apps are too many? A recent report from Neilsen called the” State of the Appnation” has some very interesting insights into how many apps users of smartphones have on their devices. With 88% of all smartphones running either Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android operating system the report mainly speaks to this market. The average owner has 32 apps while over half have at least ten Read More>>
Sean Weide Travels the Globe on Cycling Beat For Team BMC Racing
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Sean Weide has worked in communications for nearly three decades — newspaper reporter to publisher, corporate public relations to television producer. His current position as a press officer for the BMC Racing Team is his "dream job." Weide travels the world providing updates on the team as it races throughout the year on the international circuit's top level. The BMC team Read More>>
Neva-The Talking Ski Poles may be coming to Your Slopes
There is another interesting item over at Kickstarter that is seeking funding and I think one of the things that the project highlights is how increasingly easy it is becoming to network everything, even items that you might not have considered such as ski poles. A company out of Salt Lake City called SlopeScience is touting Neva, which it calls the evolution of the ski pole by adding wireless Read More>>
