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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Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Mobile World Congress is Coming!
LG is touting a new phone that it will debut at the Mobile World Congress as a "revolutionary smartphone." According to Pocketnow there should be some very interesting features in the phone starting with the LG X3 which will be its flagship Android smartphone. Another offering expected at the show from LG is the LG CX2, a follow-up product to its Optimus 3D. This phone is expected to feature a Read More>>
More AT&T Golf Failure: Sunday’s Half-Hour TV Blackout
In this day and age of always-on coverage it seems incredulous that the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has such a backwards coverage plan. In addition to our already-noted lack of any online streaming coverage, the TV broadcast on Sunday started with live coverage on the Golf Channel -- and then just as things started heating up, there was a half-hour blackout. Unbelieveable. Though I Read More>>
AT&T, Golf Channel Missing the ‘Tiger’ Opp With No Online Video for Pebble Beach
For the second day in a row, we are incredibly frustrated at the lack of any online video opportunity to watch Tiger Woods in his PGA season debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Though the Golf Channel has live coverage today and yesterday, the unique three-course setup for the Pebble Beach Pro-Am means no Tiger TV Thursday or Friday since there are apparently only camera crews at the Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Microsoft talks Windows 8 Tablet
The top Windows exec at Microsoft, Steve Sinofsky, has published a huge blog entry that details Microsoft’s plans for Windows 8 on low-powered platforms driven by processors built around the ARM processor technology. Since that is the primary chip technology driving most tablets, this blog entry shows how the company sees the space and what it believes it can bring to the market that its Read More>>
Does Cisco Have the Inside Sponsor Track for Niners’ New Stadium?
Fair warning: This is all conjecture, and not based on any interviews or inside information. But based on some cognizant observations as well as just sheer geography, it is our guess that networking giant Cisco might have the inside sponsorship track for the new football stadium being considered for the San Francisco 49ers. Now with $200 million in NFL money in hand, it appears that the Niners' Read More>>
Is YouTube the New SportsCenter? ESPN Thinks So
Remember those old days, grampa Internet, when you used to have to watch SportsCenter on ESPN to see video highlights of the day's best plays? Remember them slightly newer days, daddio, when you could go online and maybe see some sketchy vid-clips of broadcast games before they were taken down? No? Me neither. I've completely forgotten those days of 2011 and now just rely on Twitter and YouTube Read More>>
AT&T Brings Wi-Fi to Pebble Beach Golf Tourney
Since they are the title sponsor it's perhaps no surprise that AT&T is making Wi-Fi available to spectators (patrons?) at this weekend's PGA Tour stop on the Monterey Peninsula, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. What's interesting is that while smartphones and tablets are becoming an integral part of what fans bring to other sporting events, for golf encouraging mobile-device use is a Read More>>
Super Bowl Online: 2.1 Million Uniques, Lots of Room for Improvement
The stats are in and as expected, the live Internet streaming of Sunday's Super Bowl game was by far the biggest online audience ever for a sporting event with 2.1 million unique viewers, according to a press release from the NFL. Broadcast both on the NBC Sports website as well as to smartphones via Verizon Wireless's NFL Mobile app, the online showing of Super Bowl XLVI racked up some Read More>>
