Soon, NFL players will have a better way to see what happened on the last play than tilting their heads back to check out the scoreboard. The National Football League announced a partnership with Microsoft, through which coaches and officials will use Microsoft’s Surface tablets on the sidelines, potentially replacing ...
iRobot Military Bots Will Patrol the 2014 World Cup
on 5.15.13
FIFA may be implementing goal-sensing technology in international soccer games, but the World Cup is getting even more high-tech with military robot security. iRobot announced today $7.2 million in contracts to provide Brazil with military PackBot robots for security at the 2014 World Cup. PackBots have been deployed to ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Final Four Smackdown
on 5.12.13
When Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit puts on its annual upfront event in New York Wednesday morning, they'll do so with one sure revenue draw they didn't expect to tout so soon... until last week. Their sure draw, in this case, subtracts one sure draw from CBS and its broadcast affiliates, whose mothership hits ...
Senator John McCain Pushes to End the Cable Bundle
on 5.10.13
Arizona senator John McCain, introduced legislation that would force cable operators and other TV providers to split up their so-called programming bundles and instead offer TV shows in smaller, more affordable packages and as a la carte channels. His legislation, called the Television Consumer Freedom Act, also would ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – April 12, 2013
on 4.12.13
If you’ve ever thought that going to the bathroom was just too boring and needed some kind of game to make things more interesting, you might want to take a trip to Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, a minor league baseball team of the Philadelphia Phillies, recently unveiled plans to bring a pee-controlled video ...
Apple and Yahoo Talking to Add Yahoo News, Sports to Siri
on 4.10.13
Apple and Yahoo are believed to be discussing a closer partnership for the iPhone, iPad and Siri that would open up more of Yahoo’s data, such as sports and news, The Wall Street Journal reports. While sources told the paper that the deal wasn’t imminent, they did note that talks were taking place. Apple’s iOS already ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – April 9, 2013
on 4.9.13
As the millions of Americans who watch NFL games every Sunday know, one the biggest issues facing the league right now is the rise of concussions and head trauma. Last season, the NFL brought in third-party neurological consultants to make sure that coaches don’t let concussed players re-enter the game too soon. Players ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – April 5, 2013
on 4.5.13
You know how sometimes you have a friend connect their laptop to your wireless network and the whole thing overloads and shuts down? Annoying, right? Imagine having 68,500 friends over and knowing they’d all be able to be online at once with no issue. That’s exactly what the San Francisco 49ers are planning to do when ...
MLB to Partner With Qualcomm to Improve Wireless Coverage in Ballparks
on 4.4.13
Major League Baseball is announcing on Thursday that it is working with Qualcomm to help its effort to improve wireless coverage within the league’s ballparks. Over the next two years, an engineering team from the San Diego-based tech company will help the league go stadium-by-stadium and assess the state of Wi-Fi and ...
Shelly Palmer Digital Leadership Podcast Episode #30 – Bob Bowman, President and CEO of MLB Advanced Media
on 4.1.13
Play ball! It's Opening Day, so Shelly Palmer talked to Bob Bowman, the President and CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The two talk about the best app on the planet, MLB At Bat, and why it works so well. They also talk about MLB.tv and the realm of streaming video and television blackouts. They also take a look ...
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