Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever
This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro.
This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro.
Internet
Jun 10, 2014
0
0
Thirty years after failing to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big U.S. media companies are back and now trying to rein in another technological innovation they say threatens their ...
Telecom
Apr 21, 2014
2
0
Watch what you tweet, sports fans.
Security
Mar 27, 2014
0
0
Academics have, for the first time, found firm evidence of a link between domestic violence and 'Old Firm' football matches.
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2013
1
0
Facebook on Monday began feeding select news outlets real-time social network chatter about hot topics to weave into story coverage, wading deeper into Twitter territory.
Internet
Sep 9, 2013
0
0
If everyone in the crowd at a sports event or concert or even the players had wireless heart monitors fitted, commentators and those behind the sound desk could get a real measure of the sense of the collective excitement ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 18, 2013
0
0
From Gran Turismo to WWE Smackdown, sports-based video games represent a wide variety of pursuits. When it comes to the people who actually play those games, however, little is known. How do sports video game players fit ...
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2012
0
0
Dr Neil Thurman and Anna Walters, from City University London's Journalism School, have just published a study into liveblogging, which is becoming the default format for covering major breaking news stories, sports events, ...
Internet
Nov 26, 2012
0
0
(AP) -- The first live stream of the Super Bowl drew 2.1 million unique viewers, NBC said Thursday.
Internet
Feb 8, 2012
1
0
(AP) -- A federal court is upholding a recent decision by government regulators to close a loophole that had allowed cable TV operators to withhold sporting events and other popular programming from satellite TV providers ...
Telecom
Jun 10, 2011
0
0