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  • How big a market is sports technology?

    How big a market is sports technology? Technology has brought a sea change in the sports world. Though earlier its use was originally seen as a deterring factor, wherein as people called its presence as something which mars the spirit of sports, however, things like fair game display and good sportsmanship surfaced with the use…

  • Fifty Thousand Sports Techie Tweets

    Fifty Thousand Sports Techie Tweets. That is right, 50,000 tweets as THE Sports Techie at @sportstechieNET on Twitter. I decided to write this blog about what the future might hold for Sports Techie at tweets number 100K, 500K and 1 Million. First, a recap of what getting to 50K was like from here in Seattle.…

  • Techie is the new Geek at Global Sports Forum Barcelona

    Techie is the new Geek at the Global Sports Forum Barcelona. The two trending Sports Techie topics at GSFB 2012 were Social Media and the Olympics Games, with a third, Techie, the other focus of this blog. The following are sports business experts: Seb Coe, Mark Tatum and Eric Cantona. Many Americans and Internationals might…

  • GSFB sessions to be streamed LIVE right now!

    The GSFB has just been launched and this year it has once again broken new ground in terms of speakers and program. In order not to miss this fourth edition, join us at the following address to watch live, the main sessions of the event: http://www.globalsportsforum.org/live/ If you want to ask your questions during the…

  • Sports Techie is an official blogger at GSFB 2012

    Sports Techie will be an official blogger at the Global Sports Forum Barcelona (GSFB) 2012 in Spain from March 7-9. Many thanks go to the GSFB, the world’s leading exchange platform for sport, and the City of Barcelona, for selecting me to write daily blogs and live tweet from any Programs that I attend while…

  • Hail to the Sports Techie NFL

    Hail to the Sports Techie NFL. They had instant replay challenge technology and rules integrated into the game of Professional football in order to assist their officials in getting the call right during the 2012 New York Giants vs. San Francisco 49ers, NFC Championship game played at Candlestick Park stadium. Picture via FoxSports replay: At…

  • Ultimate Digital Sports Awards 2011 won by RugbyWorldCup.com

    The Ultimate Digital Sports Awards 2011 was recently won by RugbyWorldCup.com. The International Rugby Board (IRB) web site won this exciting sports technology award given by SportsBusiness with the sportsbiz help of Rugby New Zealand 2011, deltatre and IMG. http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/mediazone/news/newsid=2060758.html#rugbyworldcup+wins+award. Fans clicked on over 350 million pages and viewed 17 million video views on the…

  • Deltatre and Opta layer Heineken Cup Rugby video and data for Sky Sports

    It is awesome when the moving pieces of separate sports technology companies’ like Deltatre and Opta Sports work together to create new tech above and beyond their previous versions. Such is the case for Sky Sports subscribers who are now able to navigate their way through important moments of a Heineken Cup rugby game accompanied…

  • Real Madrid upgrading to Cisco Connected Stadium Solutions

    Real Madrid is upgrading to the Cisco Connected Stadium Solutions. Real is in the Ultra Sports Techie category for upgrading Santiago Bernabéu Stadium with a new Centrally Managed Digital Media System created by Cisco®. What makes this partnership historical is that Real is the first football club in Europe that will deploy the Connected Stadium…

  • The NFL needs goal line technology worse than FIFA

    The NFL needs goal line technology worse than FIFA, Sports Techie. As much as I love the NFL, they must be called out for not having goal line technology in place at a bare minimum in order to assist the officials in getting touchdown calls correct. Yes, the argument that if you implement it at…