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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Smartphones and a lotta’ Luck
It is one of the most compelling stories in the history of college football. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, a mortal lock for the No. 1 pick in the 2011 NFL draft, instead decides to complete his senior year as the Cardinal signal caller. He is considered by some primed to have one of the 10 greatest seasons in the history of alma mater gridiron, and is the first really phenomenol story since Read More>>
Three College Football Tweets U Don’t Want to See
College football fans often use Mobile Sports Report to improve game experiences by setting up their smart phones with the twitter accounts of recommended athletes, announcers and other information sources in advance of a game. The live updates you can get from Mobile Sports Report’s top Twitter follows bring fans closer to the game-day preparations and on-field experience than ever before. But Read More>>
The Friday Fanfare
I always love how I am always told that sports help bring people together, omitting that filling a building with two groups of fans that may hate each other seems to put the lie to the statement. While riots at soccer matches now seem passé, try wearing a Cowboy jersey to an Eagles home game. The international scene is just as bad- look at the “friendly” match between the Georgetown Hoyas and Read More>>
HP First to Fail in Tablet Space
Hewlett-Packard has indicated that it is departing the PC business and it looks to jettison its TouchPad tablet device as well. The company said that it will focus on its strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government market. One of the early pioneers in the PC space this move is probably a sign, much like IBM’s departure from this Read More>>
Could Twitter + Mobile Phones Kill ESPN?
Seeing the news today about ESPN teaming up with Foursquare to provide a platform for fans at events is evidence that The Mother Ship of sports is doing all it can to keep astride of the latest trends. But as our purposely provacative headline asks, is there a new "broadcast" paradigm emerging that could allow Twitter and fans on mobile phones to become the dominant method of disseminating sports Read More>>
ESPN Takes Shot at Creating NFL QB Rating Stat
ESPN has developed a new statistic called the Total Quarterback Rating that it claims will provide an accurate assessment of a NFL quarterbacks’ performance and will factor in a range of variables including strength of opposition. The QBR program will use a scale of 0-100 with 50 being league average and will have a weighted scale to determine how well important and difficult a pass was in a Read More>>
ESPN kicks up Xbox service in time for College Kickoff
ESPN plans to launch a revamped version of its ESPN360.com live sports service in time for users to for the start of the college football season. The latest version is designed to give viewers enhanced customization so that they can fine tune their broadcast watching experience. Slated for release on Aug. 25, which not so coincidentally is just a week before the Sept 1 start of the NCAA Read More>>
Weekly Fishwrap
Patent wars break out between Google and, well, everybody else While you can’t keep a good man down, so the saying goes, you can try and keep a good program down via a judicial use of patents. Google is crying foul over the efforts of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle who it claims are running an organized campaign against Google’s Android, a campaign that Google labels as based on bogus patents. The Read More>>
