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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StatSmack Provides Legitimate Breakthrough in Sports Social Media
January 17, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
StatSheet has launched something simple, and simply ingenious, to the sports social media public. Called StatSmack, and available online, through App Store and Android Market, the service allows sports fans to select their favorite team and an opponent from drop-down boxes, and access statistics that will make their tweets more relevant, edgier, and cutting. Why StatSmack is a Big Deal This Read More>>

Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Samsung’s Note a Tablet-Smartphone Hybrid
January 16, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Microsoft Windows will soon have an app that enables Skype, hardly a stunner since Microsoft purchased the company last year. Still this will be good news for users of the popular VoIP technology, even if it is a bit later than originally promised, according to the Verge. According to the report the first version will not be deeply integrated with the rest of the Windows Phone software but that Read More>>

Bookeen Seeks to Break Into U.S. E-Reader Market
January 16, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
French E-Book developer Bookeen seeks to break into US market with its Cybook Odyssey, a reader that incorporates the company’s high speed interface that it claims will help differentiate its platform from rivals. The reader features a 6-inch E Ink Pearl with 800 x 600 pixel touch display. It is powered by an 800MHz Texas Instruments Cortex 8A OMAP3611 processor with 128MB of memory. The Wi-Fi Read More>>

Can CBSSports.com Become the iTunes for Fantasy Sports?
January 16, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
In a move expected to be announced at this week's Fantasy Sports Conference in Las Vegas, CBSSports.com is going to open up its fantasy sports game infrastructure to independent developers, in an effort to perhaps become the iTunes of fantasy sports. Reported by the Sports Business Journal Daily, CBSSports.com's move is a bold one in the largely secular world of fantasy sports, where almost Read More>>

Sunday Sermon: Dialing Back on Negative Tweets
January 15, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
It took me all of two weeks to break my New Year's resolution of "being less negative" and I didn't even realize that I was doing it -- all I was doing was sending out a Tweet, taking an easy pot-shot at the second-tier announcing team from Fox for Saturday's Niners-Saints game, the crew of Kenny Albert, Tony Siragusa and Daryl Johnston. They were distracting at best, with Johnston in particular Read More>>

Friday Grab Bag: Bud is Back!
January 13, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Selig has two year extension in the works-I assume it is guaranteed The Good people at HardballTalk, among others, are reporting that MLB Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig will sign a two year extension to remain at the helm of the sports. The deal is expected to be announced at the owners meeting taking place in Az. this week. It comes as no surprise that he is staying there, who wants Read More>>

4iiii Delivers Feedback System for Bikers and Runners
January 13, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
A new product from startup 4iiii Innovations could prove to be a boon for every jogger that has run into someone looking down to check their time or for every bicyclist that has hit a pot hole checking their heart rate monitor. The company has debuted Sportiiiis (pronounced Sport-Eyes) it is a display technology that attaches to glasses to enable an athlete to check monitors for instant Read More>>

Incentient Uses iPads, Wi-Fi for Suite Services at ‘The Q’
January 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
For those lucky enough to sit in the luxury suites at the Quicken Loans Arena (The Q) in Cleveland, home to the Cavaliers and the AHL Lake Erie Monsters, ordering from the concierge just got a whole lot easier due to a collaboration between the arena and Aramark, the sports facilities food and beverage provider. The Q has introduced a Wireless Concierge service that uses SmartTouch Technology Read More>>