10 posts and columns on NCAA

More Free Web TV Disappears: Some March Madness Games Will Go Behind Paywall

in Media on February 16 at 10:11 am PT

Last year you could even watch the games on an iPad app without paying a penny. That’s all over now.
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Can This Broken Robot Help Save Cisco Systems?

in News on January 22 at 9:00 pm PT

A new advertising campaign aims to help Cisco Systems reintroduce itself to its customers, and remind them what it does best.
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CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

in News on November 20, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.
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Early Adopter: LateralSports.com–Kayak for College Sports Online

in Media on May 6, 2011 at 9:29 am PT

There are about 6,500 NCAA Division One sports teams in the U.S. So, how do you find that obscure, out-of-conference, pre-season lacrosse match-up this weekend? LateralSports.com wants to aggregate you an answer.

For the iPad, Apps With Their Own Wow Factor

in The Mossberg Solution on April 6, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

The iPad is spawning a new type of tablet-specific app designed to make the most of the large touch screen.
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NCAA March Madness Brings in More Viewers Online

in News on March 19, 2010 at 3:32 pm PT

The NCAA basketball tournament, with its array of games played at conflicting times during the workday, has long been discussed as an ideal sporting event for online coverage. And based on numbers out today from CBSSports.com, more people are indeed watching games on streaming video this year.

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CBS Releases Online March Madness Stats

in News on April 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm PT

The NCAA basketball tournament is over, but CBS Sports is basking in the glow of its March Madness-related traffic surge. CBSSports.com reports that its March Madness on Demand video player had about 7.5 million unique visitors by the end of the tournament, a 58 percent increase from 4.8 million users over the same period last year. The first four days of the tournament saw more unique visits–5.6 million–than last year’s total traffic.

Weekend Update, 3.21.09–March Madness Edition

in News on March 21, 2009 at 5:10 pm PT

Technically, the term refers to the frenzied flow of games and the intensity of the contenders for the NCAA Championship crown. But the NCAA doesn’t have a corner on “March Madness”–those descriptors work well in other instances, too. To wit:
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Hackers Target Basketball Fans With March Madness Malware

in News on March 20, 2009 at 8:39 am PT

Basketball fans, beware. Hackers are taking advantage of bracket-related Web surfing and initiating some madness of their own, with tactics as sneaky as spreading malicious software through March Madness blog posts. Online security company Websense discovered two March Madness-related malware scams earlier this week, one in the form of URLs posted in blog comments that took users to a phony antivirus scanning site, and another as a search-engine-optimization scam that infected basketball-related terms and pushed them to the top in Google.

Cull Web Content With Alerts

in The Mossberg Solution on September 30, 2008 at 5:28 pm PT

It can be hard to find just what you want in the 24-hour news cycle that constantly churns content out online. One way to find the information you want is by setting up computer-generated alerts. These electronic notifications are relatively simple to use and offer a range of helpful services, from a virtual heads-up when [...]
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