Samsung and VisitBritain expect 2012 Olympics tourists will be walking around London toting Galaxy Tabs. They have partnered to ship a VisitBritain widget with the devices in what the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games says is a marketing exercise.

The data is starting to roll in for the full Vancouver Olympics. NBC (NYSE: GE) hasn’t been to provide some of the stats we’ve asked for—the number of video streams served the night the first USA-CAN hockey match aired on MSNBC against ice dancing, among them. But the numbers we…

Through some quirks of scheduling, I got my first taste of Olympics action on a laptop through in-flight wireless—not the big screen in our living room—and watched the winning ski jump late at night on demand using the NBC Olympics iPhone app. The 2010 Winter Olympics may not be the…

—Telefonica: The mobile operator has signed a deal with Genasys to develop value-added location-based services for its 130 million subscribers in Latin America. As part of this, it will be rolling out the Gypsii location-based social network service to customers. Gypsii, which has been marketing itself primarily in developing countries…

After being blown away by the amount of mobile web traffic NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) received during the Beijing Olympics, it is investing even more heavily in mobile for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. In the summer of 2008, the Olympics were considered one of the largest digital events to date,…

Big league advertisers and agencies are banking on the football World Cup in South Africa next summer—and the Olympics in 2012—to give a welcome boost to revenues. But increasingly brands are using social networking sites and one-to-one fan engagement, instead of big TV and billboard campaigns, to get their message…

The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting media - but will eschew “bleeding-edge” mobile content for mass appeal. Alex Balfour, new media head for the Games’ organising committee told Mobile Entertainment Market ‘09 Vancouver 2010 will trial Samsung’s…