Olympics

Editor's desk: Mainstream geniuses, Olympic rights, and streaming wrongs

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jul 29, 2012 a 5:07 pm

I spent most of last week laughing it up in Winnipeg with my fellow fuzzball's from Mobile Nations -- that'd be Phil Nickinson of Android Central, Daniel Rubino of WPCentral, and Kevin Michaluk from CrackBerry.com, in order. We spent a few days figuring out where the network was, and most importantly, where we're going through the rest of 2012 and into 2013. You'll be hearings -- and seeing -- a lot about that soon.

How to follow the London 2012 Summer Olympics on your iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Jul 28, 2012 a 4:24 am

The London 2012 Summer Olympics have begun and with all the different events going on, it's no easy task to keep track of all the results -- if you don't have an iPhone or iPad, that is! We've rounded up some of the best apps to keep track of this world event, including some that let you keep up with the results, watch live events, view beautiful photography, and even a game that lets you experience being an Olympian.

Watch the Olympics live on your iPhone with free, UK-only, BBC Olympics app

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Jul 13, 2012 a 5:56 am

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has launched a new, free, UK-only app called BBC Olympics that will provide up to 24 live event streams, schedules, results pages, and all the latest news from the Olympics 2012.

Quick App: NBC Olympics Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch

By Jeremy, Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 a 1:19 pm

The 2010 Winter Olympics officially began yesterday and if you want to keep up with your country to see how well they are performing, the NBC Olympics Mobile app [iTunes Link - Free] for iPhone and iPod touch is a great companion piece that offers a ton of great features.

News, results and medal counts are all updated live.
Video on-demand: Those of you in the U.S. can watch NBC Olympics video clips and highlights. Sorry Canada!
Favorites: Save athletes, sports and nations as favorites
Push Notifications: Have results for your favorite sports pushed directly to your iPhone.
TV Coverage Schedule: View NBC's TV and online coverage schedule and set program reminders.
Athlete Bios and Sports Information: You can read up on all of the sports rules and get the full details about nations and teams.
Social networking: Share Olympic Games content with your friends directly on your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts.

Why Canadian users would be omitted from viewing video is beyond us, especially since they are hosting all of the events. Surely some sort of deal could have been made for those of you in Canada? Now if you throw that major fail aside, you have a great app to give you your daily dose of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Screenshots after the break!

Lenovo Olympics App -- Brought to you by Microsoft (sort of, not really)

By Dieter Bohn, Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 a 1:54 pm

If you're interested in following the Olympics on your iPhone, you could do worse than the free Lenovo Summer Olympics 2008 (App store link) application.

A classy Olympics app is postworthy, sure, but what makes this app very interesting is that it's been developed by Zumobi -- note the tell-tale 'Z' in the screenshot, note also that, ah, Zumobi is the developer. Why is this significant? Zumobi is a company that specializes in creating a neat 'tiled content' app for Windows Mobile. Ok, so?