One of the biggest matches of the year is tomorrow and with the UEFA Champions League Final being held in Munchen, Germany and both finalist being official partners adidas has gone ‘all in’ at many key sites in the Bravarian capital! In addition to launching a micro site they produced an amazing 3D video at the famous Fashion House Hirmer

The Smartphone is becoming more prevelant in daily life even during workouts.  Somewhat related to a recent post, Lab42 put together this infographic showing how smartphones are being used during workouts, around fitness and how the gamification of social status/rewards are creeping into the mobile workout space

Mobile payment hasn’t become the de facto method of financial transactions just yet, but it is projected to overtake those archaic credit cards, checkbooks and bank notes you’ve been lugging around.  The ability to make payments from your mobile device will make it your preferential PPD (Personal Purchasing Device).  SapientNitro put together this amazing infographic on the topic

Everyone loves the dream of writing some code and watching 50M people download it like Angry Birds, but the reality is the super hit franchises don’t happen easily.  Most take a lot of work to break even let alone make money.  You need a strategic marketing advantage or you had better be willing to work to push the marketing for

The boys at adidas have been teasing this boot for a few weeks and finally its here!  adidas launched the Predator® Lethal Zones boot; the new boot was unleashed at a unique event pitting some of the best players in the World against each other in five deadly challenges designed to test every aspect of a player’s ability. The launch

OK, so from a percentage of growth the South had a lot of head room which is making some movement, but Silicon Valley still leads nearly everyone else cumulatively by dollars.  Still good to see in the infographic by Venture51 that the South is growing on startup funding

KT Tape, the company that produces those cool tape patterns you see on athletes, put tother another insight into social media in sport.  Sport is the force multiplier of so many things, but social media seems to be somewhat exponential.  Here’s the infographic

Sport coverage (and news as a whole) has changed.  By the time you see it in print its ancient history.  By the time you see it on TV unless a LIVE event its proabably old too.  Radio is seldom used by most, but those that do may catch the news faster.  The Internet is the modern day news source, but

Since the 90′s I have been using Windows CE, Mobile and Phone devices.  So, for over about 15 years or so I have been from the initial Windows CE device with Everex which required a modem to dial out to check email which wasn’t the easiest while travelling internationally to the current Windows Phone that is about as easy as

Windows 8 is largely targeted toward tablets, but the pricing on Windows tablets has been north of $1,000 USD for some time.  Right now, you can a Windows 8 experience on your iPad, albeit in WiFi proximity to a desktop running Windows 8, via Spalshtop.  See the video below and you can see the $25 (on sale) app here