Tag Archives : World Cup

Octopus Paul, who became famous for “predicting” the outcome of several games of the World Cup, died late on Monday. Those responsible for aquarium Oberhausen (Germany), where the mollusk lived, confirmed the information this morning. The animal was about two years and nine months old, a little less than the average lifespan of an octopus [...]

Before starting the games of World Cup, the player Frank Lampard, a player of the England team, was named by a British company to sign a production of iPod Touch with back plates made of 24 carat gold. But with the failure of the Egland Team and its defeat at Germany Team, five thousand gadgets should be melted soon. IPods with the signing of Chelsea‘s [...]

Pre-candidate to host the World Cup in 2022, Japan proposed the display matches the World in 3D on 400 stadiums around the world. According to the Japanese project, called “Universal Fan Festival” would be invested six billion dollars to enable 360 million viewers in 208 countries-members of FIFA to monitor the games via video screens installed [...]

With world cup around the corner everybody has braced up to make the most of this monstrous sporting event! PostCarden is one of those companies which took this opportunity to put its best foot forward by unveiling its new World Cup inspired mini garden greeting card. PostCarden, in an effort to acknowledge the great influence of football in our lives, [...]

David Beckham is the poster boy of Yahoo! during the World Cup. The announcement was made today by the company. In addition to providing its image, Beckham will also comment the Cup on the site. The campaign, which opens tomorrow in 20 countries initiating the last step of a marketing strategy of Yahoo! Budgeted at 100 million dollars to fight competitors [...]

After the recent failures, which exposed the conversation via chat to their users, and reports of gaps in your privacy options, Facebook has found a new “friend” to put more fuel on the fire by Mark Zuckerberg. The site FacebookSearch allows any Internet user searching for what users are commenting on the most popular social network in [...]

After the YouTube of India live broadcast 60 games of the third season of cricket championship of the country, the Indian Premier League to 50 million viewers around the world (with the exception of the United States), Google search now possibilities of transmission other sports. When the transmission contract was signed in January this year, creating [...]

The fifth and final batch of tickets for the World Cup available to fans in South Africa no longer has entries for the final, the opening match and the two semi-finals, FIFA said on Friday. Tickets sold out just a day after being put on sale at official points of maximum authority of football and some banks. In total, 100 thousand tickets were sold, [...]

FIFA World Cup 2010 will soon happen much to the delight of all the football lovers. If you wish to show allegiance to your favourite country, you could buy the country’s flag or scream the name of your team till your throat goes dry and till your voice goes hoarse. If all that is not enough, and you would want to do something geeky, you could go [...]

Four selections of Europe conquered their vacancy on this Saturday, after the next to the last round of the preliminary rounds for the World Cup of 2010. Denmark, Serbia, Germany and Italy didn’t give chances to their opponents and stamped their respective passports. Of the nine groups, only two will still need to define which will be them classified [...]