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Tackling Tech: How the NFL and Bose Tackled Game Communications
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- Published on 20 August 2015
In the NFL, distance matters.
In Super Bowl 49, three feet was the distance between the Seattle Seahawks and the end zone and for the Lombardi Trophy.
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Powering up the NFL Game Experience
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- Published on 14 August 2015
Are NFL fans in the stands headed for a mobile device brownout or blackout?
That depends largely on whether stadium owners and their partners are tracking wireless device trends and planning accordingly to ensure that their venues have plenty of well-designed charging facilities for fans who are doing more with the smartphones they bring to the games.
DirecTV Launches 2015 No-Dish, NFL Sunday Ticket Online
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- Published on 06 August 2015
DirecTV has begun selling a new and improved version of the online-only version of its NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market live game package with more features, and wider accessibility, than the limited-availability offering from the 2014 pro football season.
Tackling Tech: Getting Inside the Heads of NFL Players Creates Challenges
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- Published on 31 July 2015
Facing the greatest challenge to America’s game as we know it today, the NFL has attracted some of the best and brightest research and development minds to create science and tech breakthroughs to help detect and lessen head injuries to players.
The league launched the multi-stage, $60 million Head Health Initiative in 2013. It spanned three challenges that result in participants receiving funding to advance their creations toward finished products. The NFL partnered with GE on the Head Health Challenge (HHC) journey.
Tackling Tech: Can Pro Sports in UHD Save U.S. TV?
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- Published on 23 July 2015
The NFL’s broadcast partners and TV service providers, as they say, are on the clock. It was just a matter of time before pro sports programming became available in the emerging 4K ultra HD (UHD) format. The only question now is when someone in the U.S. will follow the lead of UK’s BT, which has launched a sports UHD TV channel.
Tackling Tech: My NFL Now 2.0 Wish List: Right Here, Right Now
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- Published on 16 July 2015
In creating the 2015 version of its year-old NFL Now app, the builders are faced with an embarrassment of apps and video content riches from which to draw to offer fans greater functionality and access to both live and on-demand programming.