Hey, football fans! The National Football League has been developing software that will allow users to stream live NFL games on your mobile tablet (iPad, etc.). So now, the executives over at the NFL are in talks with Verizon Wireless to get this development in motion.

As of this moment, some users can stream live games to their mobile phones, but contracts don’t cover tablets yet (iPad, BlackBerry, Samsung, etc.), so negotiations are taking place to try to finalize rules, licenses, and contract agreements surrounding tablet devices. In March 2010, Verizon announced a sponsorship agreement with the NFL that will span four years, so that Verizon is the sole provider of NFL games streaming to mobile phones. Now they’re looking to have exclusive rights to tablets as well.

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Really? Really? This is what our news is coming to?  I find myself coming to the defense of Starbucks (though I never actually go there) and its employee on this one, however.  Plus I thought it was funny, so why not discuss it?

Apparently, this professor (who boasted about her PhD from Columbia University) “claims she was ejected from an Upper West Side Starbucks by cops for refusing to order according to the coffee chain’s rules.” Okay, fine.  Please explain yourself, Professor.

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Sports Illustrated has teamed up with software creators Kabam to make the uber-popular football tradition, Fantasy Football, into a mobile reality.  Users will be able to interact with other Fantasy Football players during the season.  They’ll be able to update their teams swiftly and efficiently on this mobile, interactive platform.

According to fiercemobilecontent, these fans can “manage their team and interact with friends directly through Facebook, through SI.com and from any mobile device.”  VP of Sports Illustrated added that the software was made to be more of a convenience to these users who are already, most likely, using their mobile devices to get information regarding their Fantasy Football teams and scores.

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Google Earth has been sort of 3D for a little while now, with accurate topography and elevation, etc. But now the engineers over at Google have come up with the next level of Google Earth awesomeness: now, users who have the application can check on rain and snow in real-time, and they can also see what the conditions actually look like.

This isn’t your average weatherman green-screen that just shows little clip art graphics of rain, snow, and clouds.  This is high-tech. To see the conditions, users will enable a “cloud layer” on the map, which shows you exactly what the clouds look like in a given area.  Then the user can zoom in and see the rain and snow levels in that particular spot.

As of right now, this feature is only available in certain parts of North America and Europe, but I’m sure that Google is working hard to make sure this is a global feature.  But, to make it simple for North American and European residents, there is a radar layer that shows precisely where one can view the rainy and snowy weather patterns.

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I read from Paste Magazine that Anne Frank’s Diaries are set to be turned into graphic novels, with permission from the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam.

The museum “has commissioned author Sid Jacobson and artist Ernie Colón to turn Frank’s legendary diary into a graphic novel” so that a vaster audience can know and experience the struggles of Anne Frank during the Holocaust.

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