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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Friday Grab Bag: People buy Kindles to read Books, Who Knew?
How do people use Kindle- let me count the ways With all of the great sales news for Amazon’s Kindle platform in recent weeks one might wonder what all of these customers are using the tablets for. Well wonder no more as a survey by RBC Capital, as reported in Business Insider, comes away with a number of details on users needs Not a huge surprise is that its primary use is as an ebook Read More>>
Apple Makes Big iPad Education Push — Sports, Social Media, Hardware Developers to Benefit
Apple is returning to its roots with its new education push announced today, only this time there will be no floppy drive or large beige computers on students desks with a tangle of wires connecting everything, but rather tablets and wireless communications. While this will most likely mean great news for education content developers as well as students, it will also be a boon for other markets Read More>>
Bleacher Report Adds iPad Version of ‘Team Stream’ App to Address Growing Mobile Reader Base
To better address the nearly 40 percent of its viewers who access its content via a mobile connection, Bleacher Report is launching an iPad version of its "Team Stream" app today, giving fans a better mobile viewing experience for the "stream" of news, Tweets, story links and other info that Team Stream helps them create. Having a version of the app available for the Apple iPad will give Team Read More>>
Super Cellular Battle: Verizon Adds DAS, Sprint Calls on the COWs
In addition to the football game, there's a cellular supremacy battle going on in advance of the NFL's Super Bowl on Feb. 5, as wireless providers are bringing in extra technology to make sure all their customers' calls go through on the big day in Indianapolis. The cellular conundrum facing sporting events is old hat to readers of Mobile Sports Report, who know about the bandwidth challenges Read More>>
Australian Open 2012 Embraces Social Media
Do you miss the days of Evonne Goolagong and wooden rackets? Do you have no idea what the first sentence meant but like watching tennis and regret that the Australian Open is half a world away and so difficult to catch much of the action live? Well the 2012 edition of the famed tournament has stepped up in the digital and social media space and presents a number of methods in which a fan can Read More>>
Lexus Partners with NBC on NFL Hashtag Twitter Game
Count Lexus as one of the first major brands to dive into the sports social media gaming space, as the luxury auto maker has partnered with NBC Sports to produce a game that allows sports fans interact with sports trivia and win prizes during the NFL Playoffs. Called TweetDrive Engineered by Lexus, the promotion is essentially a "social media activation tool," according to an AutoGuide report. Read More>>
Recon Instruments Lands $10 M in Venture Funding
Start-up sports analytic display company Recon Instruments recent product launch has helped it close a $10 million investment round that should help the company expand both in the sports field but also pioneer new markets. The latest round features two investment firms, Vanedege Capital and Kopin Corp. that jointly funded the $10 million. Recon said that the money will help continue its Read More>>
Garmin Connects Athletes with Ant +
Looking at the growing number of fitness devices available there is a thread that is increasingly running through all of them, they feature a low powered wireless technology called Ant + from Ant Wireless, that enables the athletes and others to get real time feedback from sensors such as heart rate monitors. It is no real surprise that the technology has caught on in the market; it was Read More>>
