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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Can ‘Gridiron Grunts’ Grow? App That Lets Players Talk to Fans Getting Pictures, Videos for 2nd Season
After a self-proclaimed successful rookie year, the team behind the "Gridiron Grunts" app -- which lets NFL players and fans talk to each other via recorded voice messages -- is beefing up for its second season with plans to add picture- and video-sharing capabilities. According to ex-NFL lineman Jeb Terry Jr., who is co-founder and CEO of Grunts parent company Gridion Ventures Inc., adding Read More>>
Toshiba Delivers Excite 10 LE Tablet as Market prepares for War
Today marks the official start of the ‘Is it an iPad killer’ season, spring edition. Toshiba has the honor of kicking off this event with the release today of its Excite 10 LE tablet, beating Apple’s latest iPad announcement by a day. Now I do not believe that a tablet has to be an iPad killer, look at the success of both the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Amazon Kindle. Now some might argue that Read More>>
ESPN to Broadcast UEFA European Football Championship 2012
Good news for football fans ESPN will have games in June. Sorry I did not mean to get you excited if you misunderstood, it is not American football but the European style, when it broadcasts the UEFA European Football Championship 2012. The network is staying true to its word about expanding and deepening its coverage of the sport in the US and it will be doing so with all of the tools at its Read More>>
Bloomberg Sports Delivers Front Office 2012 for Fantasy Baseball Fans
Almost all fantasy baseball players that I know employ a wide range of tools to help them make the selection that will propel them to the winning position in their league and guarantee a full off season of bragging rights. Or at least that is the hope. Bloomberg Sports, one of the more recent players in the field of fantasy baseball analytics, has just released its third season of “Front Read More>>
ESPN Answers CBS With API Push to Developers
Could mobile applications be the next big "network" for sports content? Nobody knows yet, but Monday's news about ESPN opening up its programming application interfaces to independent developers is another sign that the current content kings want to make sure they've got their hooks into any possible innovation that might dethrone them. In non-geek terms, what ESPN announced today was a way for Read More>>
Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: The Almost iPad III Edition
Apple is expected to deliver its heavily anticipated next generation iPad later this week. Rather than print all of the massive amount of rumors we are just noting at this point and will fill in the gaps when the company takes the wraps off its latest product. It is likely that this week will mark the start of a number of tablet releases within the next month or so including a Toshiba offering Read More>>
The Big Ten Network expands to Mobile Devices with BTN2Go
Fans of Big Ten sports who are on the road can now take a piece of the conference with them, a sporting piece as the conference has expanded its Big Ten Network (BTN) presence to cover both mobile users as well as expanding its footprint on the Internet. The BTN2Go features the live sports feed of the programming that fills BTN, it is simply made available to users of smartphones, tablets or Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: ESPN3 and Facebook Team for Hoops Tournaments
Facebook and ESPN Team on Conference Tournaments For much of the next two weeks ESPN3 and Facebook will combine to show coverage of all of the myriad college conference basketball games in both the men’s and women’s brackets. This means that users will have access to all 225 live broadcasts. ESPN3 has indicated that while this is its first partnering with Facebook it will not be its last as it Read More>>
