Will Google’s Calico initiative translate onto the playing field? (Time)
Last month, Google announced the creation of Calico, a company aimed at taking on aging and defying death. Google is clearly no longer just a search engine, and its latest endeavor could have some major ramifications on athletics and sports medicine.
Calico, short for the California Life Company, will research people and other subjects that are aging in an effort to identify a way to fight it. An independent company from Google, rather than a subsidiary branch, Calico will most likely research diseases associated with aging and body deterioration such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease.
(Thuuz)
Thuuz Sports has always been on the cutting edge for sports applications and their latest announcement clearly displays them as such. The award-winning mobile and connected television service has been revolutionizing how sports fan discovering and eventually connect to their preferred sports programming.
Thursday afternoon, the company announced the Glassware release of its popular Thuuz sports app. Thuuz now becomes one of the first Glassware to be available on Google Glass. The new service has been designed to alert Glass owners about trending games regarding their favorite sports as well as provide them with score updates for their favorite teams.
It wasn’t long ago that internet users were waiting for their modems to dial in through their phone lines. The dreaded dial-up sound will forever haunt a particular generation. As for parents, they won’t soon forget yelling at their kids to get off the internet so they call aunt Susan. Cable has possibly come even […]
Is Google Glass the key to solving the NHL’s TV problem? (chicagonow.com)
With Google’s announcement in April of 2012 of their latest and greatest product, Google Glass, one can only wonder how long it will take for it to be utilized all throughout the different sectors of American society. The sports world, which is becoming more and more tech-savvy by the second, seems to be keen on implementing Google Glass very soon, or at least the fans are, considering the type of interactive environment it would create that fans thoroughly enjoy.
(www.droid-life.com)
“Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.”
― Douglas B. Reeves
When news breaks that two industry giants are having discussions, there is never a quiet ripple effect. The explosion of coverage surrounding Google and the NFL illustrates the latest example.
