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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CrowdOptic Gets Super Bowl Beta for Focus-Based Fan App
The folks at CrowdOptic are reporting a successful Super Bowl beta test of a prototype point-and-join social media sports application, based on the company's unique ability to "triangulate" the most important things people may be pointing their phones at during an event. As we've reported before, the San Francisco-based CrowdOptic is developing technologies to provide analytics and real-time Read More>>
PGA’s ShotTracker: A Pretty Good Live TV Substitute
Once again, golf fans are faced with a half-hour gap in live TV coverage Sunday, this time from the Northern Trust Open at Riviera in Los Angeles. We tweeted the Northern Trust's Twitter feed and got back the suggestion to check out the PGA Tour's ShotTracker page, which we did. It's pretty cool. It's not live TV, but you can "follow" the action shot by Read More>>
How Should Sports Sites Make Money? A Great Post and a Great Line
Since Mobile Sports Report ran a story and picture of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition this week (after all, it is a big story that the issue is available online), the whole discussion about how to drive traffic to sports sites and how online news sites make money off advertising got moved to a new level with this post from Outkick the Coverage. Read it if you are in the sports marketing Read More>>
Major Apps Designed to Data Harvest Apple iOS Users
Are iPhone apps stealing data off your smartphone? In a general sense it looks like the answer is yes, even if you as an individual are unaffected. A series of studies has shown that it looks like the market as a whole has not been immune to this problem but it is running rampart and is lead by some of the leading app developers. While to some it might seem that harvesting data such as Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Digitized Swimsuit Issue-Where do I sign up?
Ford to show at Mobile World Congress At the Mobile World Congress there will no doubt be an array of interesting products and technologies introduced, and there will be at list one show first- Ford plans to launch a car at the show. The B-MAX to be exact. Ford has one of the keynote speeches at the show and it has been revealed that it will take the wraps off of the car that has what it Read More>>
TaylorMade has Twitter-based Contest — Also on Saturday and Sunday
Editor's note: TaylorMade extended its contest to Saturday and Sunday, via text not Twitter. Rules are here. Good Luck! If you are watching the Golf Channel at this moment you could easily enter the TaylorMade Driver Love Contest but you will have to hurry- it runs from Thursday, Feb 16th starting at 12 AM Pacific Time and ends the following day at 11:59:59 PM. The contest, touted as a Read More>>
Google/Motorola deal now awaits Chinese Approval
While it looks like a certainty that the Google/Motorola $12.5 billion deal is going through after getting approval from the appropriate regulatory bodies in both the United States and Europe there is still one major hurdle to overcome. The wildcard is China, which is also taking a look at the deal and wants to have its say in the matter, and when the world’s largest market wants a say it will Read More>>
Apple Patents MacBook Air look- Lawsuits to Follow?
Apple has just been awarded 19 patents in the last week and one of them has the potential to stir up trouble, if the company decides that it can enforce that patent against rival notebook manufacturers. The patent in question is No. D654,072 and it has to do with the the design of light, thin laptops. While the patent in question does not mention Apple’s MacBook Air specifically it does have a Read More>>
