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Sport and Technology - July 2006 In association with the Sport and Technology Executive Club
(www.sportandtechnologyexecutiveclub.com) *************************************************************
Welcome to Sport and Technology, the monthly e-newsletter published by
consulting and research company ArkSports Limited (www.arksports.com),
delivering insight on the impact of technology on sport to 6,000 sports
executives every month. **********************Breaking News************************************* Sport and Technology Executive Networking Event - 3 August 2006, London The next Sport and Technology Executive Club (STEC) networking evening will be
held in London on the evening of Thursday 3 August, hosted by The Sports
Recruitment Company in the company's Covent Garden offices.
Join STEC now if you want to rub shoulders with members from a wide range of
sports rights owners and technology companies, and enjoy an evening of wine,
nibbles, poker and table-football!
See www.sportandtechnologyexecutiveclub.com for further details and joining
online.
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http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/ Q&A: Avaya and the 2006 FIFA World Cup - July 2006
S&T speaks to Jocelyne Attal, Avaya's chief marketing officer and Doug
Gardner, Avaya's FIFA World Cup Programme managing director about the
company's sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0387.html View From the Editor: Horse play and the FIFA World Cup - July 2006
S&T catches up with FIFA's head of information, Marius Schneider in Berlin and
also learns about a new way to play the beautiful game. "On a recent
afternoon, a 72-year-old woman, several 1,000-pound animals and one creative
trainer played soccer with a ball the size of a big-screen TV."
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For further information contact T: +44 (0) 20 7379 6080 or info@clintons.co.uk ************************************************************ Website Profile: Servecast and the Rugby Super League - July 2006
The Rugby Super League is a UK rugby tournament now considered to be one of
the top three sports in Great Britain under the Sport England assessment
criteria, writes Kathrina Gallogly, marketing and communications manager of
Servecast.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0389.html Feature: New technology scores well in soccer - July 2006
A new Future of Football [soccer] Survey conducted by mobile network operator
Orange has revealed how fans want to see the game embrace the prospect of
mobile technology and well as utilise technology to decide contentious issues.
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a table of contents. *********************************************************** Feature: Computerised gaming in casinos - July 2006
Computers with graphics and automated playing stations without human dealers
are starting to take over casinos in the US. S&T looks at this new gaming
phenomenon.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0391.html Feature: US Sports Biz - July 2006
S&T's US correspondent Mark J Jeffers, takes another look at the wild and
wacky world of the movers and shakers in sports across the other side of the
pond....
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0392.html Infostrada Sports' Databox - July 2006
More data from the archives at Infostrada Sports.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0393.html **********************Sponsor************************* Infostrada Sports - Sponsor of Sport and Technology's Databox "Sport and Technology gives us the opportunity to present ourselves directly
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Philip.hennemann@infostradasports.com *********************************************************** News
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/ Video referee not used in FIFA World Cup Final - July 2006
According to PA Sport, FIFA has insisted that video replays were not used to
send off France's Zinedine Zidane in the World Cup Final on 9 July.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#01 500m mobile TV subs by 2011 - July 2006
In 2011, mobile TV services will have 514m subscribers worldwide, up from only
6.4m at the end of 2005, a new ABI Research study claims.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#02 **********************Sponsor************************* Premium TV - Sponsor of Sport and Technology News PTV is Europe's leading broadband and mobile sports content company, owning
and operating a state-of-the-art broadband and mobile sports content
management system and internet platform. PTV helps sports and entertainment
rights owners maximise the value of their digital rights and capitalise on the
growth in the broadband and mobile content markets. It packages their content
into commercial offerings for broadband and mobile consumers and operators,
driving revenues from subscription, syndication, advertising, betting and e-
commerce, across the UK, Europe and Worldwide. PTV is the leading platform for
football content on broadband and mobile, packaging and exploiting digital
content for 86 British professional clubs, including 10 English Premier League
clubs including www.nufc.co.uk, four SPL clubs including www.rangers.co.uk and
the bulk of the English Football League, including the governing body
www.football-league.co.uk. PTV works across other sports including the World
Rally Championship www.wrc.com and many other entertainment genres.
For further details contact Bryan.winning@premiumtv.co.uk
Mobile: +44 07977 218763 - or take a look at http://www.premiumtv.co.uk *********************************************************** Red Bee expands Piero's reach - July 2006
Hot on the heels of Sky Italia, TV Globo in Brazil and Hong Kong Cable bought
Red Bee Media's (formerly BBC Broadcast) Piero system in time for the 2006
FIFA World Cup.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#03 World Cup joy for AFP - July 2006
France has had some success in the FIFA World Cup, despite losing to Italy in
the Final on penalties.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#04 **********************Sponsor********************* Empics - Digital Sports Photography - Sponsor of Sport and Technology Empics is an international sports photo marketing agency, making innovative
use of technology to provide customers with picture solutions. It offers
Picture Buyers a digitised sports photolibrary of over 650,000 images covering
moments and heroes from the world of sport from the 1860s to the present day -
the choice of newspapers, magazines, books, websites, sporting bodies and
marketing agencies, around the world, every day. EMPICS was acquired by the
Press Association in 2004 and has subsequently developed is its ground-
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images taken at events to fans on any digital platform within a matter of
seconds. ShootLive integrates live text and data from The Press Association to
create detailed "pictorial" event chronologies. ShootLive is now in production
across a range of high profile sports and entertainment events.
For further details about Empics, contact Phil O'Brien
(phil.obrien@empics.com) or visit http://www.empics.com
***************************************************** Mobile hoops deal - July 2006
Groupe Sporever has signed an exclusive agreement with FIBA to distribute the
FIBA World Basketball Championship's mobile rights internationally.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#05 New deals for Servecast - July 2006
Digital sportscaster Servecast has secured a three year deal with Ice Media
Productions, the UK company devoted to British Ice Hockey broadcasting, to
manage the live and archive broadband video service for the British Elite Ice
Hockey league.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#06 Italian soccer mobile rights granted - July 2006
Mobile content distributor Digital Orchid has been granted the rights to
deliver soccer content from the Premiere Series A Games of la Lega De Italia
across its wireless distribution networks in the Americas.
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Communications, e-mail: vitcomusa@earthlink.net ***************************************************** Globecast saddles up for Tour de France - July 2006
Globecast, a global provider of satellite broadcast and content management
services and a subsidiary of France Telecom, is to supply France Télévisions
and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with satellite coverage of the 2006
Tour de France.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#08 FISU launches streaming website - July 2006
FISU, the International University Sports Federation, has announced the
official launch of 'FISU Web TV', its internet television channel that will
showcase its Summer and Winter Universiades.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0394.html#9 Women flock to online bingo - July 2006
OnlineBingo.co.uk has found that 88% of online bingo players are female and
the average player is just over 45 years old.
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