Displaying items by tag: Sport

Suggesting its cheaper to fly to the UK to watch a single Premier League game than it is to subscribe to the Optus EPL 24-month bundle, Choice says Optus puts football fans offside.

Digital connectivity is becoming an increasingly important part of the live sport experience, and the Gold Coast's Metricon Stadium is the first fully-connected smart stadium in Queensland.

SMG Technologies will sponsor the Queensland Reds Super Rugby team for the next two years.

Telstra TV is now serving up Seven’s 7Tennis app with up to 16 courts ‘live and free’ from the Australian Open available on Telstra TV from today.

A three-year sponsorship agreement between Optus and Cricket Australia (CA) makes the telco CA's official mobile multimedia partner.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to the merger of Foxtel and the Ten Network, ruling that the deal is unlikely to substantially lessen competition in the media market.

Telstra will provide exclusive live streaming of all Australian Football League (AFL) matches to mobile devices from 2017 following the signing of a six year mobile and digital rights agreement with the league.

Network connectivity data centre facilities services provider Nextgen has established a partnership with Sydney Teleport Services (STS) which allows STS to offer more advanced capabilities and interconnectivity with major cloud platforms to support growing OTT services for its new and existing client base.

The CSIRO has released a science masterplan aimed at improving Australia’s record in innovation and which it says will help the country respond to global changes and digital disruption. The plan has been advanced by the CSIRO against the background of Australia’s lowly ranking of 81st in the world ‘innovation efficiency’ stakes.

Football clubs Manchester City, Melbourne City, New York City and Yokohama F Marinos are set to use SAP's cloud applications following a deal between City Football Group and the Germany-based software giant.

The wearables market in Australia is still in its infancy, but the release of the Apple watch in April, and innovation from other players in the market, is expected to drive up revenues to $1 billion by 2018.

The Internet of Things will change many things, even the game of cricket. By identifying problems early, injury can be prevented later.

The AFL season kicks off tonight, so the announcement of a five year sponsorship deal between ICT vendor Huawei and the Gold Coast Suns is well timed.

Etihad Stadium (Melbourne) and Allianz Stadium (Sydney) are the first venues to implement StadiumVision 4.0, the new release of Cisco's IPTV system for sport and entertainment venues.

For the next four years, Telstra will continue being Netball Australia’s ‘Official Telecommunications and Digital Partner’ with the live streaming app a flagship of the partnership.

There has been debate over whether the regular or Sport version of the Apple Watch would retail for US$349, and now we know.

Wi-Fi traffic at last month's Australian Open tennis tournament was up sixfold on 2014.

Fox Sports Pulse has deployed a solution from Business Intelligence and Anaytics vendor Qlik to analyse customer registration and purchase data to improve sales performance.

Microsoft has joined European football powerhouse Real Madrid as its strategic technology partner.

Cricket Australia has undertaken a major overhaul of its digital offerings with the launch of redeveloped websites and new apps which it says will bring cricket fans closer to the game this summer.