With days left before the opening ceremonies at the 2012 London Olympics, NBC and Adobe has made their Olympics Android apps available to a wider (but still not universal) audience. You might want to hold off on celebrating, though. The predictable basics (schedules, results, breaking updates) are present, but past that, both the main NBC […]
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Olympics Reaction To Light Up The London Eye
Here’s a pretty cool experiment in social media data gathering. Every day through the end of the Olympics, Great Britain’s EDF Energy will light up the London Eye based on sentiment toward the Games on Twitter. The Eye, known to the rest of the world as that giant Ferris wheel on the opening credits of […]
NBC Has Two Olympics Apps For Android That You Probably Can’t Use
By Matt Algren on July 19, 2012 in Culture, Entertainment, Mac OS, Odds And Ends, Smartphones, Software, Tablets, TV/Film/Video
With just days left before the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in London, it’s time to get your mobile devices ready. NBC, which again has the exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the games, has partnered with Adobe to release two separate Android apps to augment its official coverage. The main app, NBC Olympics, […]