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NFL's Super Bowl IT team gets ready for game day

The NFL is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game.

| Feature | Networking | Virtualization | 01/31/09 at 8:30 pm |


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Cell phone apps for football fans

Will you be able to catch the big game on Thanksgiving without sneaking away to the living room? Yes! Or, maybe. Here are some tips for navigating the convoluted realities of the mobile content market.



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Sprint Broadcasts NFL Games on Cell Phones

Now, you can watch the punts from the pews: Sprint will be broadcasting NFL games on phones that support the carrier's TV service.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Personal tech | 11/06/08 at 2:12 pm |


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NFL schedule, potential TV ratings optimized by software

The NFL is known for its meticulous, hands-on approach to everything -- and for years that included doing its scheduling by hand, starting the day after the Super Bowl, with a peg board and little tags. But that all changed several years ago, when the NFL realized it could use technology to automate the process -- making it more efficient and its schedules better -- and a Canadian manufacturing engineer named Rick Stone came knocking on the NFL's door.

| Feature | Software | 09/08/08 at 2:05 pm |


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