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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AppStori seeks to self fund App Developers-Microsoft delivers strict App guidelines
I have already said that I enjoy seeing developers apply for funding from Kickstarter, but it has seemed to me that the platform is pretty much device or material oriented. Now an emerging effort is coming on line that will provide a similar opportunity for mobile developers. Called AppStori, it is a platform that is designed to provide funding opportunities for startups that are developing Read More>>
Recapp Launches Simple But Powerful Sports News Reader App
Sometimes, innovation is all about taking what exists and making it easier to use. That's the key ingredient in Recapp, a simple but powerful sports news reading app that curates top sports content by team and sport and organizes it for easy-to-find consumption. Available free now for the iPhone, Recapp is the brainchild of David Chen, a self-proclaimed sports-obsessed fan who was frustrated by Read More>>
Research In Motion takes wraps off Next Generation BlackBerry Platform
As Research In Motion struggles to retain relevancy in the smartphone market that it helped pioneer the company has started delivering a prototype version of its Blackberry 10 smartphone and development tools to developers at its BlackBerry World conference. The company hopes that the device, along with the new tools for the development of apps for the platform will help revive its fortunes Read More>>
Startup seeks to turn iPhone into Sports Video Recording Device
I am slowly becoming addicted to Kickstarter, the funding platform that basically enables anybody to invest in small start up companies that need small infusions of cash to get going. We have already covered one such project here. While looking for something else I found a project that incorporate iPhones for (mostly) sports purposes. The simple device is called the ProtoSports Holster for Read More>>
ESPN turns the heat up on Soccer Coverage
ESPN has taken another solid step in its effort to provide full soccer coverage to fans worldwide with the introduction of ESPN FC, an effort that will provide umbrella branding for all of its diverse soccer media coverage. This appears to be the network’s biggest step yet and will include a multilingual, multi-nation push to expand and brand its coverage and will include television, print, Read More>>
The 2012 NFL Draft is in the Books-Did Your Team Win or Lose?
There is a nice piece in Sports Illustrated by Richard Deitsch that quite clearly shows the difference between ESPN and the NFL Network’s approach to covering last weekend’s NFL draft. It breaks down to one with a relatively minimalist approach (ESPN) and the other went with ‘kitchen sink” approach. Of course over the course of three days the cast of characters changed a bit and the dynamics of Read More>>
Tiger Woods Answers Fans’ Questions on Web Video
We wish this was embeddable, but it's easy enough to go over to the Tiger Woods website and check out the web video of Eldrick the king answering fan questions. While the one-man, one-camera production is a little spare I actually found myself liking this a lot more than some of the over-produced, SportsCenter-type music-ated highlight type films. What's interesting about this video segment is Read More>>
Barnes & Noble Partners with Microsoft to Create Subsidiary
Barnes & Noble has entered into a relationship with Microsoft that will create a Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will handle all of Barnes & Noble’s digital and college businesses in what may be the first step in spinning off the unit as a separate company. The new unit is as yet unnamed but goes by the temporary title of Newco and with Barnes & Noble throwing in its business units Microsoft Read More>>
