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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Will MLB’s New Deal Kill or Enhance Players’ Access to Social Media?
Just catching up on Major League Baseball’s off-season news prior to the hot stove league heating up with the arrival of the Winter Meetings and I came upon an interesting piece in Baseball Nation about a change in social media usage in baseball. It pointed out that there is a single line in the new collective bargaining agreement that says “All players will be subject to a policy governing the Read More>>
#HAILSTATE Eggs on Mississippi State Tweeters
Mississippi State used a Twitter hashtag in its end zone during its annual Egg Bowl game versus Ole Miss on Saturday, and the results were as good as its 31-3 victory over its cross state rivals. The use of the #Hailstate hash tag, placed in the north end zone at the game, spurred continued Twitter activity through Nov. 28, with some fans suggesting use of #Hailstate on helmets and uniforms in Read More>>
Mobile Sports Reports Monday TechWatch: An Android Rebuttal
Social Games Developer gets $12.5 million investment SNS Plus, a 3-year-old developer of games that run on social media sites has just received an influx of funding amounting to $12.5 million from WI Harper, a Chinese VC, and Matrix Partners. SNS focuses on developing for Facebook with 60 games already available on that platform and an additional 15 games on a variety of others including Read More>>
Verizon’s Turkey Day Turkey: No Live Games as Promised on NFL Mobile
UPDATE: Verizon Wireless rep Debi Lewis (@VZWDebi) finally got back to us to let us know at noon Calif. time that only the Thursday evening game (Niners-Ravens) would be on NFL Mobile live. To those of you who believed the Verizon tweets from earlier in the morning, hope you enjoyed those NFL Network canned shows instead of live NFL action. Verizon was promotiong its NFL Mobile app pretty Read More>>
CBS Streaming Top Rated SEC Games this Weekend
Broadcaster seeks to grow success from LSU vs Alabama Game CBS Sports, coming off a very strong viewership of its live streaming broadcast of the LSU vs Alabama game several weeks ago is now touting its live streaming of the game between #3 Arkansas vs. #1 LSU as well as broadcasting the “Iron Bowl” between #2 Alabama and #24 Auburn. The event will follow a familiar format for viewers that Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: Pre Black Friday Issue
Site takes you on Stadium Journey Every year or so you see a story about some intrepid fans that are going to travel around the US and visit all of the ball parks during baseball season. A bit rarer but you also see people that try to hit all of the minor league fields on occasion. Well if you are just an armchair traveler, or looking to do research about a sporting venue prior to leaving home Read More>>
PlayUp pushes to China
PlayUp plans to launch in China in January, according to a China Daily report. PlayUp is rapidly establishing itself as a global leader in sports social media applications for mobile devices. Launched in the United States in October, PlayUp has already downloaded 75,000 applications worldwide, according to an earlier MobileSportsReport article. By pushing into China, PlayUp establishes a Read More>>
ESPN ‘Morally Criminal’ in Bernie Fine Coverage, Whitlock says
Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock has published commentary saying ESPN broke its story of sexual abuse allegations against Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine "morally criminal," and says the network decided to report the story only because of the Penn State football sex abuse scandal. In the column, titled "A Fine mess ESPN has created," Whitlock says ESPN reporter Mark Schwarz Read More>>
