All posts in Tag "app"

An expert view on the FIBA World Championships… #OviFIBA

Sep
5

13:22 pm

As you probably know by now, WOMWorld/Nokia is living it up out in Turkey right now for the FIBA World Basketball Championships.

We'll level with you... our knowledge of basketball before the tournament was a tad patchy, so we brought a few basketball loving pals out with us. They are: Mark at A Stern Warning Marcus at Vampyr.se Pinar at Pinar Ilik Yesterday we filmed a quick video outside the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul where the bigs games are happening to get some of their thoughts on how the tournament has gone so far – and also the Ovi BBall app that the guys are blogging on… Untitled from WOMWorld/Nokia on Vimeo. [...]

Gearing up for THE BIG ONE…

Aug
30

22:16 pm

Basketball is the second biggest sport in the world, I’ve discovered this week, and it’s easy to see why…

An unbelievable amount of games at the FIBA World Championships are going right down to the buzzer.

As a relative newbie to the game, I’ve realised it’s not just a happy co-incidence, it’s just what happens in basketball. Yesterday, unfancied Australia came within millimetres of an unlikely last gasp win against Argentina. Two points behind with literally split seconds to play, a three pointer attempt from Joe Ingles looked all set to provide a classic ‘dunny role’ (Aussie terminology) winner. [...]