Siri, the virtual personal assistant, is now a sports fan. Apple’s voice-activated knowledge navigator (Apple’s term, not ours) is receiving an update in iOS 6 that allows it to report sports scores in real time, inform a user on when their favorite team is playing next, and can even report on individual player stats. Recently, […]
When American Andy Roddick lost to Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro at the US Open yesterday, his defeat ended his career as a tennis player but did not diminish the public’s fascination with him. The match sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy–and analysis of the results reveals some surprising truths about social media. According to IBM’s […]
If you are a gamer, you may have noticed the considerable effort for sports games to showcase some of the games greatest in today’s video games.
Some of the worlds most popular sports gaming franchises have enabled modes for fans to play as some of the sports greatest legend athletes. After all, a lot of this generation’s sports fans and video game players don’t know much about past players except for hearing their name. Now video games give players opportunities to relive some of the greatest players of the past with the current players.
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Imagine the coach of your NFL team failing to relay the play call to the quarterback on the field because his outdated analog headset is picking up the random signal of nearby airplane pilots.
Seems a little farfetched for America’s largest sport to have simple communication problems right? But just ask San Francisco 49ers Offensive Coordinator, Greg Roman, about trying to communicate with his quarterback, Alex Smith, last year.
According to Roman, “There was one time when I was doing it and it happened to be on the same frequency as an airline in a certain city and it was a critical situation in the game and all you hear is Southwest pilots talking.”
The Stanford football team has said goodbye and good riddance to their paper-bound playbook days. In an effort to minimize its carbon footprint and to maximize availability to critical information, “The Cardinal purchased more than 100 iPads outfitted by PlayerLync, a Denver-based sports technology company that has several NFL clients,” according to reporter John Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News.
