Apps

Amazon updated the iOS version of its Kindle reading app on Wednesday, adding features that leverage Apple's VoiceOver technology to make Kindle content more accessible to the visually impaired.

Like many avid sports fans, Shailo Rao, Sagar Savant and Vam Makam are well-familiar with how frustrating it can be to find quality, relevant sports content — especially on Twitter and other social media. Rao tells me over coffee that, as a PhD student at Stanford, he spent years trying to create and maintain a single realtime feed of content he actually cared about. Because no company or…

Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real Estate survey found that 36% of polled viewers said they would use a second screen to supplement the game-viewing experience. A Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup is catering to that trend with a new tablet app that aggregates real-time tweets from 1,000 media sources and 2,000 players.

I may be a bit late to the party, but I’m comforting myself with the fact that the first UEFA Champions League semifinal is still a few hours away from kick-off (Visca el Barça!)....

Forget badges, trivia and long-winded discussions: The soccer-centric second screen app Vubooo is all about a whole lot of virtual shouting.

Отличные новости для болельщиков и людей, неравнодушных к спорту! Не прошло и месяца с момента выхода крупного обновления приложения Sports.ru, в котором появился новый дизайн и новые функции, а разработчики уже выпустили новинку. Вчера в App Store и Google Play дебютировала третья версия приложения — очередное «мажорное» обновление.

How do you make sports gambling more addictive? Make it role playing game where you level up by completing quests of placing specific fake-money bets. And how does a sports community app like Hitpost build such a smart game? It hires lead producer Courtland Alves from games giant Crowdstar as its new CEO. After four years in sports, Hitpost is making a play for the social gaming big leagues.

Отличные новости для всех, кто неравнодушен к спорту! Футбол, хоккей, баскетбол, теннис, бокс, гонки — все это есть в лучшем российском спортивно–новостном приложении Sports.ru. Многим пользователям пришлось по душе крупное обновление до версии 2.0, о котором мы рассказывали в конце прошлого года, но разработчики решили не останавливаться на достигнутом. Вчера на просторах магазина приложений появилась новинка с порядковым номером 2.5.

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, March Madness is upon us, with the NCAA tournament officially kicking off tomorrow. Yes, March Madness brings April gladness, as the saying goes. In fact, difficult as it may be to fathom, but the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is turning 75-years-young in 2013.

ABC is reportedly planning an app that will let cable subscribers stream live network TV to a tablet or smartphone, the New York Times says....

If you haven’t filled out your bracket for the annual NCAA March Madness basketball extravaganza, you’ll want to check out the Simple Bracket iPhone app from Studio Neat....

By connecting its smartphone app with real-time ticket inventory, MLB will let baseball fans in four cities (at first) find better seats after arriving at a game.

Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that it will adding nine new locations to the roster of ballparks that accept digital tickets stored and presented through Apple's Passbook iOS app.

Apps are supposed to make your life easier, though they don't always live up to that. However, here are five that actually will, whether you're organizing your schedule, following baseball, or trying to find new music....

Major League Baseball is getting its mobile app into shape for the coming season, and video looks to hold down a key spot in the lineup....

Just in time for the return of baseball season, MLB has updated its line of mobile apps so you can listen to more games for less moolah....

This year’s mobile app for iOS and Android app can be used on both platforms and has a new deal bundling GameDay Audio subscriptions for free.

Way back in August last year, we reported that UK-based radio station TalkSport was to broadcast every English Premier League match globally from this season, via a Web-based portal that was also optimized for mobile devices. The one big caveat, however, was that due to rights-related reasons, TalkSport Live could only be offered outside of Europe, which was a major bummer for many....

Almost a month to the day since the BBC launched a native Sports app for iPhone and iPod touch, the British broadcaster’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has launched the app for international users....

The BBC on Wednesday launched its first mobile app for international audiences, looking to capitalize on the increasing tendency of sports fans to turn to their smartphones for analysis and information.

The UK’s BBC began to test the waters for BBC Sport apps globally last summer with the launch of a special app featuring content from the London Olympics, and today that game is entering its next quarter: BBC Worldwide today released a new BBC Sport app for iOS, the first that will be made available to consumers outside the UK. The BBC says that an Android version will also be coming soon.

In a quintessentially European move, fanatix, the iOS-based second screen app and wider ‘mobile-first’ social network for sports fans, has released a Portuguese-language version in partnership with Sportinveste Multimédia — a joint venture between Sportinveste and Portugal Telecom which owns the digital media rights to the Liga Portuguesa soccer league. The deal also comes hot on the heels of…

While some sofa sports-fans subscribe to every sports channel under the sun, others prefer to adopt a more selective strategy to ensure they get enough bang for their buck, without tying themselves into long-term contracts that leave their bank balance rather bare....

Подробный рассказ о том, как команда проекта AppStudio разрабатывала, совершенствовала и продвигала своё первое приложение в App Store - универсальный спортивный счётчик Sports Counter, который создан для учёта очков и ведения статистики в любых спортивных и настольных играх.

It’s almost 2013 and you’d think that at this point every NBA team has probably had its own official mobile app for a few years now, but that’s not exactly the case. The Portland Trail Blazers, for example, just launched their own official mobile app for iOS in late November. Earlier this month, I sat down with Dan Harbison, the team’s senior director of Interactive Media, to talk about how the…