Network keeps World Cup data flowing
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Tom Porter and Doug Gardner intensely watch the green numbers scrolling quickly down a 42-inch plasma monitor, making sure information flowing over the World Cup&#039;s computer networks moves as smoothly as Brazil&#039;s offense.
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Among professional sports leagues, high definition video is a permanent fixture, both inside the new stadiums where fans congregate and on HDTVs that fans are watching. But there's confusion there today, it seems, over wireless technologies.
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Six years after launching a legal battle over unauthorised use of its World Cup trademark FIFA, soccer&#39;s world governing body, has won its case against a Spanish and Portuguese language US internet network.
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Networks of low-res cameras and sensors could monitor urban environments for diverse data -- traffic flow, pollutants, structural integrity -- online. By the Associated Press.
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CONSUMER: Viagogo, an online exchange for live-event tickets, is using Freud Communications for the launch of its Premiership football-match service, having brokered deals with Manchester United and Chelsea.  (c) 2006 PR Week. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Only soccer has drawn a larger global TV audience among single-sport events than this year's rugby World Cup has
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Football Federation Australia says it is conducting a major audit of national infrastructure in its efforts to launch a formal bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, reports said Sunday.
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NBC Sports and Web broadcaster   MediaZone will announce on Wednesday a joint Internet sports   channel offering viewers of a broader array of sports events   worldwide, from rugby to big-wave surfing.
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Three of the seven World Cup teams playing warmup matches Wednesday came away with wins &amp;#151; France, Iran and Paraguay.
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There&#039;s only one more off day the World Cup resumes. Next up are the quarterfinals with Germany facing Argentina and Italy taking on Ukraine on Friday. Saturday&#039;s games are England vs. Portugal and Brazil against France.
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Finally, fans in Zaire or New Zealand might be able to go online to see real-time game stats, radio calls or even Webcasts of, say, the Savannah (Ga.) Sand Gnats or Jupiter (Fla.) Hammerheads.
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All the major incidents from the World Cup qualifier.
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FIFA is adopting a new world soccer ranking system. It&#039;s easy to see why.
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The display offers information like a download and upload "speedometer" and network bandwidth usage.
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THERE is nothing new under the sun. Hereâs the scenario. Itâsa vital World Cup qualifier deep in the industrial heartlands of Poland.
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By Paul Moran, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 4--"You can't really describe what it's like. Every phone is ringing. The network is running at capacity and it's that way all day long. Last year, we took more than 100,000 bets on Super Bowl Sunday, mostly over the Internet.
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The steps of Cologne&#039;s famous cathedral are a sight to behold, 31 stone stairs stretching almost the length of a football field at their longest point. On this workday, though, the scene on the steps is even more impressive. It&#039;s not even noon, and every spare inch is filled with boisterous World Cup fans dressed in their nation&#039;s colors. The Germans are standing and singing, the English are waving banners, the Swedes are clapping.