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 game Continue Reading →
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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 Continue Reading →
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 are tested Continue Reading →
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 Continue Reading →
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 cellular coverage and Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
A new kind of streaming technology is set to make quite the splash in Allentown, Pa. Minor league baseball’s Lehigh Valley IronPigs announced on Tuesday plans to bring a pee-controlled urinal video game system to their home field when the season begins next month. Yes, that’s right: a pee-controlled urinal video game system. The technology, Continue Reading →
For a sport that’s been around over 100 years, Major League Baseball is on top of its digital game. After a pilot program last September, the league announced that 13 stadiums will accept mobile tickets through Apple’s Passbook App this season. The Mets, Giants and Royals, three of last year’s test teams, will be joined Continue Reading →
When the San Francisco 49ers’ new stadium opens for the 2014 NFL season, it is quite likely to have the best publicly accessible Wi-Fi network a sports facility in this country has ever known. The 49ers are defending NFC champions, so 68,500 fans will inevitably walk into the stadium for each game. And every single Continue Reading →
Sports nuts — they’re everywhere. And now they can be even more attuned to the comings and goings and winnings and losings of their beloved teams. A partnership between the Web app configuring service IFTTT and ESPN will allow people to get emails, push notifications, calls, instant messages and more to alert them to news Continue Reading →