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Player-Tracking Chips In NFL Shoulder Pads Win Technology Award

Zebra Technologies, was recently selected for exhibiting the best new radio frequency identification (RFID) product or service at RFID Journal LIVE!. Their tracking system, known as the Zebra Sports Solution, identified the location, motion, and direction of NFL players in real-time last season. It does this by leveraging the same real-time tracking and location technology […]

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The World’s Greatest Soccer Players Are Investing In Technology

Christiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Michael Owen and Louis Saha are a few of the high profile names to enter the technology scene. Real Madrid forward Christiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest players in soccer history, has invested an undisclosed amount of money into Mobbito. Mobbito is a Portugese app that allows users to create teams […]

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Virtual Reality And The Elephant In The Stadium

It’s 6pm Pacific Standard Time. You just sat down courtside with three of your closest friends from college. One of them was your roommate freshman year at the University of Arizona. The same one that wore the same pair of dorm basketball shorts for what seemed like an entire semester, and somehow managed to verifiably […]

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Virtual Reality Company Gains Serious Sports Tech Advisory Board Members

NextVR, a California-based technology company, has announced its launch of a new Advisory Board consisting of three inaugural members who will assist in strategizing the company’s future growth.  The board’s members include Doug Perlman, Founder and CEO of Sports Media Advisors, Scott Teissler, formerly of Turner Broadcasting, and the Chair, Peter Guber, Founder and CEO […]

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How The Kentucky Derby Delivered Connectivity At Churchill Downs To Avoid One Giant Cellular Dead Zone

Last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs broke a new single-sporting event wireless traffic record–of its own, at that–with over five Terabytes and upwards of 474 Gigabytes within AT&T’s network for the 290,000 fans in attendance–about 15.3 million social media posts and videos worth of mobile data consumption. Considering that the venue has been around […]

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