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....
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…
Path meets Google Latitude for skiers‘ app Snowciety debuted at The Next Web Conference Europe’s Startup Rally earlier this year, winning the Best B2C App category. While things have been quiet from the Dutch team behind it since then, as the skiing season kicks into gear, they’re back with a more social approach and a brand new Android app....
In 2011, Brian York founded Enthuse as a way to give fans the ability to connect with their favorite sports teams via their mobile devices and get rewards for checking into games, snapping photos and sharing the love. On the flip side, Enthuse enables schools and sports franchises to integrate with their API and SDK to quickly deploy social loyalty programs in their own, branded apps. To help…
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- here's our app roundup.
Everyone knows Notre Dame’s record. Perfect season. 12-0. But what about their yards per game? Turnovers throughout the season? Attendance on road games? No one knows that stuff- no one but StatMilk. Atlanta-based StatMilk launched just before the 2012 college football season. The website a one-stop-shop for college football junkies. Seriously. The site offers a dead-simple portal to stats for…
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite...
This week’s roundup of iOS apps features a bit of the old ultraviolence, as well as innovative ways to make your teen hate you....
Entertainment Soccer players who commit major fouls at a pro soccer match in Mexico on Thursday night won't be flashed with the traditional red card referees use to mark major offenses....
With the NBA season now fully underway and our attention spans being continuously pushed to the max (not to mention Yahoo’s pissing off fantasy football fans), it seems like the perfect time to introduce you to The Chadwick Project. Nikolai Yakovenko, a former Google Search engineer and rabid basketball fan, founded Chadwick earlier this year to bring some machine learning and artificial…
Paul Mayne is founder and designer at Bloom Built, a Salt Lake City company that produces Day One, a journaling app for iOS and Mac. With Day One, Mayne has become known as one of the rare developers who can effortlessly create a powerful yet minimalist and refined user experience. Mayne took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about why we should journal, his first memory of the internet, and the app most important to his daily productivity. You can find him on Twitter at @paulmayne....
An ancient gambling tradition has found its way into the app store. Known colloquially as a “gentleman’s bet,” this wager is made f…
Apps are generally free or cheap, setting users back a few bucks here and there, a slight blip in the bank account. But amid the flurry of inexpensive games and photo...
It’s October and if you’re a sports fan, you’ll know that it’s playoff time for Major League Baseball. But how will you be watching your favorite matchup? Most likely in…
This week’s roundup of iOS apps is rocking it old-school. Old baseball, old music, old presidents, and more....
ESPN has released an update to its WatchESPN app for iOS that adds AirPlay support for all of its channels including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Previously, only ESPN3 was…
Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is an awesome new Twitter client that reminds me of the old (and awesome) Tweetie app — before Twitter bought it and ruined it. It’s accompanied by Camera+, which now supports the iPhone 5’s larger display, and comes to the iPad; an awesome new update to Mixel; and more.
iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out!...
Future, an international publisher whose titles include T3, Official Xbox Magazine and websites like GamesRadar, revealed in a new trading update today that it is building up a good incoming gross revenue stream from Apple Newsstand, which has driven over £5M (roughly $8M U.S) in total since Newsstand’s launch in October. Increases in digital revenues are offsetting the decline on the print side, CEO Mark Wood told me in an interview, and that trend is expected to continue.
Itching to get the most out of that new iPhone 5’s screen? While you can certainly run any iPhone app that’s currently available in the App Store on your iPhone 5, a few...
The new iPhone 5 and its bigger screen is here. And to take advantage of all 4-inches of that taller screen, you need apps that are updated, optimized and ready to look bigger and better than ever. We got 'em all listed for you right here....
MLB At Bat 2012, one of my favorite apps for the iPhone and iPad has been updated to support iOS 6 and Passbook ticketing. The update comes just a day…
Consumers haven’t yet weighed in on whether Nokia’s Lumia will become a viable competitor to the iPhone and top Android devices, but at…
