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It took half a year, but Twitter managed to get the tweets per second record broken. The previous one was set during New Year's Day in Japan. The new record is also related to a world event and, obviously, to Japan, which loves Twitter.
The final of the Women's World Cup, between Japan and the US, which... |
18 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Any event that captures the attention of a lot of people is going to make a big splash on Twitter. The World Cup last year got people so worked up that Twitter had a hard time staying online and available for everyone. It also marked the period with the biggest number of tweets coming in each second. But it didn'... |
10 February 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty Ltd, as the publisher, and Sidhe, as the developer, have announced that they are working together to create a new rugby simulation video game which will be called Rugby Challenge and is set to be launched on both the PC and home gaming consoles at some point during the third quarter o... |
17 November 2010
13:41 GMT |
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A while ago, Enrique Iglesias made a promise meant to send the hearts of all his female fans racing: if Spain won the World Cup, he’d water-ski sans his clothes. Even though authorities warned him not to go through with his plan or he’d face arrest, it would appear that Enrique did not forget ab... |
6 August 2010
06:47 GMT |
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The World Cup is over and Twitter can breathe a sigh of relief managing to survive the onslaught of tweets that were bringing the site to its knees. While there were issues throughout the tournament with availability, Twitter also managed to break quite a few activity records. And now that it’s all over it can ... |
17 July 2010
07:19 GMT |
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The World Cup has just been wrapped up with Spain’s victory over Holland in the final. It will be four year’s time until the world is taken over by the football craze again. Google couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to showcase one final World Cup-themed doodle. In fact, it ran two different doodl... |
12 July 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Panda Security is offering twenty free licence keys for the PRO edition of its Cloud Antivirus product if Spain wins the World Cup 2010. The Spanish antivirus vendor is hoping to get more people to support Spain's soccer team in the upcoming final game.The FIFA World Cup is already the most widely watched sporti... |
9 July 2010
04:52 GMT |
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Facebook’s reach is universal and, while there are still some countries where the site doesn’t dominate, it’s safe to say that it’s a global phenomenon. So the fact that Nigerian president was persuaded in reversing the ban on the country’s football team by his Facebook followers shouldn... |
6 July 2010
11:52 GMT |
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Twitter has been having a lot of trouble staying up during the World Cup and things are not about to get any better. The Fail Whale has been a regular occurrence and the site has been down hours at a time. In order to cope with the increased traffic and strain it puts on the infrastructure, Twitter has now slashed th... |
30 June 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that with all the FIFA World Cup fever going on, crybercrooks can use related YouTube videos to direct visitors to scam websites. One such video, promoting a fake Facebook account hacking tool ended up embedded in a Daily Mail article.Even if you are not a soccer fan, you are likely to have ... |
28 June 2010
11:28 GMT |
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With the World Cup well underway there have been a lot of memorable and some not so memorable moments for football fans. As always, they’ve turned to the web to satisfy their curiosity of all things World Cup and, at least for the time being, the tool of choice is still Google. The company’s search engine... |
28 June 2010
06:12 GMT |
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YouTube has been trying to be more like TV in hopes of making people stay for longer and hopefully bring in some of the big money advertisers spend on the traditional medium. But this latest move to make watching YouTube videos feel more like watching TV may have gone a bit too far. If there’s one thing that th... |
24 June 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Twitter has been struggling for the past week or so and, even though there were technical issues as well, a large part of that was because of the influx of traffic mostly related to the World Cup. It turns out that Twitter broke its own record for activity several times this week and, while it was mostly due to the W... |
19 June 2010
05:09 GMT |
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With so little time left until the start of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, fans all over the world are gathering to the southern continent to support their country in this great event that takes place once every four years. Even the supporters that don't have the possibility to view this even... |
11 June 2010
05:43 GMT |
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If you’re a football fan, there’s probably just one place you’d like to be for the coming month, South Africa. With the world’s best teams fighting for the title of world champion, the action doesn’t get any hotter than this. Of course, if you’re like most fans, you’ll be wat... |
8 June 2010
10:39 GMT |
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With the 2010 World Cup literally kicking off in a few days, Google is getting the football fever just like the rest of the world. While Googlers don’t seem to be the biggest football fans, the scale of the event couldn’t be ignored. Plenty of its products are getting World Cup-themed features, including ... |
8 June 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Football fans know this already, the 2010 World Cup is just around the corner. The excitement around the greatest sporting event on Earth is building up, but, as usual with so many matches, it will be hard to keep up with all the action. Fortunately, the people at Yahoo have though about the ones stuck at work or at ... |
12 May 2010
08:14 GMT |
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Arguably the most massive sports competition after The Olympic Games, the FIFA world cup always catches the attention of hundreds of thousands of sports fans, whether they make it to the stadium or they just stay in front of a TV or even an Internet feed. IT enterprises, however, might see more opportunities in such ... |
7 December 2009
06:41 GMT |
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At this time, YouTube is surely the single service that is continuously present in the court because Google is really assaulted with a huge number of copyright complaints. Today, new accusations for copyright infringement are launched against the video service after YouTube published numerous videos from the Cricket ... |
27 March 2007
09:30 GMT |
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A few days ago, Google launched a new web page and even if the company didn't present the site, it was obvious it was created to celebrate the upcoming cricket event. As I said at that time, the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup will take place in the West Indies from March 13 to April 28 and will introduce 51 matches ... |
14 March 2007
04:42 GMT |
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