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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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yap.tv to bring immersive television experience to USA Network
In a deal that could bump up the social media for US Open Tennis and WWE Raw, start-up yap.tv will deliver a branded social TV guide application for NBCUniversal's USA Network. Initially, the deal will focus on such USA Network television shows as "Burn Notice," "White Collar," "Suits" and other original programming, but US Open Tennis and WWE Raw are among USA Network's sports offerings, and Read More>>
Monday’s Tech Tidbits: Apple iPhone Edition
Samsung and Apple still claiming patent violations Samsung has quickly struck at Apple’s new iPhone 4S, a product that sold 4 million units since last Friday, by asking for an embargo in Australia and Japan on the product, claiming patent violations. Apple and Samsung are both claiming that the other is violating its patents. Apple to unlock iPhone? In other iPhone news the report is that Read More>>
Twitter Scores KO of ESPN in Harbaugh/Schwartz Tiff
It was get-our-pumpkins day here at the MSR main household so I pretty much missed the NFL in real time Sunday, leaving me with a lot of catch-up viewing as I settled in to watch the Bears dismantle the Vikings. With all the headlines screaming not about the Niners' upset win over the Lions but some apparent scuffle between the head coaches, I went default and hit the ESPN recap of the Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag-How is your QB rated?
Apple stays hot The demand for the new iPhone 4S is so great that even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had to stand in line to get one, and not just in line, but over night! That might show the popularity of the latest phone offering from Apple, but reports from AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel is that they all sold out of the phone during the preorder period. A visit to their web sites Read More>>
Monday’s Tech Tidbits ( day late version)
Online ad growth targets tablets From the Forbes newsletter files: Efficient Frontier, which manages about $1 billion in search, display, and social advertising for agencies and advertisers reported that tablets captured 77% of retail mobile ad spending last month. The overall mobile ad spending space has been growing and is expected to hit $1 billion for the first time in 2011. Currently the ads Read More>>
Fans, Teams Win With AT&T Stadium Wi-Fi Push
Fans and teams may be the big early winners in the cellular industry's nationwide push to bring better phone reception to crowded places, an effort currently led by AT&T's aggressive plan to build localized Wi-Fi networks inside major sporting venues like San Francisco's AT&T Park and Chase Field in Phoenix. To alleviate the bandwidth crush caused by the relatively new phenomenon of fans who Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: No More MRIs on Twitter for Arian Foster
Just a quick roundup of some Mobile Sports-related topics today, including Arian Foster telling Jim Rome that he probably isn't going to put any more MRI photos on Twitter anytime soon. AT&T Adds Wi-Fi to Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota: While we will have a longer feature coming up soon about AT&T's push to bring Wi-Fi to more stadiums we didn't want to pass up the news of Ma Bell adding Read More>>
Fanatic Fans: An Insider’s Look at Mobile Applications for Live Events
If you ever wanted a good look into the infancy of sports social media, you could get it by taking a look at Calibrus Inc. Fanatic Fans application. Fanatic Fans debuted at Arizona State University home games last month, and today fewer than a thousand people have it on their smartphone or other mobile device. Yet that’s enough momentum to convince the 26-year-old developer of the application, Read More>>
