Sports Technology & Communications News from Around the World

Brazilian Airport Infrastructure Co. Selects Telvent for World Cup Preparations
February 16, 2011 - Telvent, a global provider of IT solutions and business information services, announced that it has been awarded a contract by Infraero, the Brazilian Company for Airport Infrastructures.

Finalists of Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2010 Released
November 4, 2010 - World Cup (IWC), which focuses on applications for the sports and fitness, healthcare, home automation and control markets. Developers, entrepreneurs and students submitted concepts for applications that make use of the new Bluetooth low energy wireless technology. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group organized this second edition of competition after the great success in the first edition during the year 2009.

Al Jazeera TV Interference: And the Winner Is… Static
October 7, 2010 - Al Jazeera Sports Channel relied on the technical knowhow of Integral Systems to identify and locate a significant satellite interference event that disrupted broadcasts of FIFA World Cup football matches this summer.

Vodacom South Africa Garners Support at Football World Cup for Convergys Upgrade
September 30, 2010 - Thanks to the successful upgrade to Convergys Rating and Billing Manager, the subscribers of Vodacom South Africa were rewarded with unprecedented support at the recent Football World Cup held in South Africa by Convergys Corporation.

Inlet's Spinnaker Leveraged for Broadcast-Quality Live Sports Streaming
September 13, 2010 - Inlet Technologies, a provider of solutions for digital media preparation, unveiled that its Spinnaker family of encoding solutions are chosen by deltatre, a sports media services company headquartered in Torino, Italy, to generate broadcast-quality streaming outputs of some of the most prominent and high-profile events in the sports world.

BBC's Simulcast Sports Tech Expansion Plans Powered by Inlet Technologies
August 18, 2010 - Inlet Technologies, a dealer in online video experience, has claimed that their Spinnaker family of live streaming appliances will be powering BBC's simulcast expansion plans for a number of channels and also premier sporting events, including FIFA World Cup 2010, Wimbledon and F1 Grand Prix.

MobiTV, Inc. Confirms that Bigger the Size, Better the Viewership
August 16, 2010 - During the FIFA 2010 World Cup, MobiTV, Inc.'s technology platform was able to deliver over 100 million minutes of coverage from ESPN Mobile TV, with 100 percent uptime. MobiTV had an in-depth analysis into a number of viewing trends and behaviors from mobile video users in the U.S.

Soccer-Related Mobile Search Tripled During World Cup: Study
July 29, 2010 - The recent World Cup brought a captivated audience to mobile - a trend that is growing with the globalization of media and culture and is magnified by the accessibility of the mobile Web, says Ground Truth, a mobile media measurement firm.In a recent study conducted on the popularity of soccer-related mobile Web content during the World Cup, Ground Truth found that traffic to soccer sites tripled during the tournament.