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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Panasonic, LiveU Team Up for Mobile Cellular TV Cams
Panasonic announced Sunday that is is teaming up with cellular-modem camera pioneer LiveU to build a pro TV camera with a cellular connectivity unit bolted to the back of the camera, to make live mobile broadcasting easier and cheaper. As we said last week we here at MSR think that cellular-equipped broadcast cams are a big thing going forward. For professional broadcasters and networks they Read More>>
Sony’s SmartWatch allows Sports Viewing on the sly
Have you ever been stuck in a meeting when an important, or even not so important, game was on and you were missing all of the action? Well Sony may have a solution for that with its SmartWatch, a Internet linked wristwatch. Much like a generation of school kids once hid transistor radios to listen to baseball games now they can actually watch them. The beauty is in its simplicity. No need for Read More>>
Marathon Monday: Where to Watch the Boston Marathon Online
In case you're at your desk Monday doing a virtual marathon of meetings and emails instead of running 26.2 miles, you can share the agony and ecstasy by running your browser over to the Universal Sports website, where the Boston Marathon will be shown live for free. According to a couple other stories we have read the race may also be shown online via a link at the Boston Athletic Association's Read More>>
The Nook Comes in From the Dark
Credit Barnes & Noble with understanding an issue that plagues a host of readers, particularly ones that read in bed; it’s hard to get the lighting right on the page without straining a reader's eyes or without annoying a partner in bed. But no more as the company has added a backlight feature to its latest Nook e-reader tablet, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. The GlowLight automatically Read More>>
NASCAR Under the Lights at Samsung Mobile 500 in Texas
LAST RACE The results were either interesting or disappointing from Martinsville’s Goody’s Fast Relief 500 two weeks ago, depending on who you are rooting for and what you look for in a race. The race had its fill of last minute screw ups including last lap stalling, crashes and over time. When the dust and smoke had settled, but probably not the tempers, Ryan Newman was the victor. The Top 5 Read More>>
Grabfan Looks to Build Fan-Against-Fan Betting ‘Challenge’ Network
Don't call it betting! That's the legal mantra but in reality what the new sports social media app Grabfan wants to do is make fan-against-fan betting more relevant and fun by rewarding correct predictions. That's "predictions," otherwise known as "bets." But don't call it betting! At least not for now. Set to launch (hopefully) with the San Francisco Giants' home opener later this week, Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Who gets Hard Knocks and Tablet Sales Soaring
Nike’s push to establish its FuelBand, a rubber wrist band that it is seeking to establish as a standard piece of wearable sports technology continues to move forward as the APIs for the device have been given to developers, according to an article in PSFK. The FuelBandAPI will enable developers to create a range of applications that reach from a user’s iPhone out to the FuelBand and back, not Read More>>
