Category: Sport

  • IBM develops mobile apps for Wimbledon

    If you’re a Wimbledon fan and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, and you want to keep up with what’s happening at this year’s tennis championship no matter where you happen to be, there’s a treat in store for…

  • Gearing up for London 2012

    Whatever you think of it, this symbol is one we’ll be seeing a great deal of in the coming weeks as London starts to gear up as host city of the 2012 Olympic Games in four years’ time. When the…

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • Baseball for dummies

    A definite highlight of my trip to Chicago last week was a visit to Wrigley Field to see a baseball game. My first ever such visit took me to the home of the Chicago Cubs to see them play the…

  • The saviour for English football

    I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday. I’m a bit outside the target demographic :) But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that…