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Tech and the World Cup

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Devoted football fan and freelance technology writer Ian Harvey spent much of the prelude to this year’s World Cup preparing a story package around how technology is taking the tournament to new heights.

Cars drive under a giant advertising billboard picturing a man blowing a vuvuzela on May 31, 2010 in Polokwane, South Africa.

World Cup 2010 a feast of technology and tribalism

This will be the first time a worldwide live event delivers content in 3D, HD, and streaming video

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A trader uses a phone during a soccer broadcast.

If you can’t beat ‘em, set up a TV in the cafeteria

Bosses should think twice about clamping down on employees who want to watch the game

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A man takes a picture with a mobile phone inside Green Point stadium ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup start in Cape Town June 8, 2010. Fans in Canada can watch live games on their mobiles through a Rogers service or through a TV-top device such as Slingbox.

Have mobile, will watch World Cup

If you can’t catch games on TV, it’s not the end of the world

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Uruguay's players take part in a training session at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town on June 10, 2010 ahead of the 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa.

Grand 3D vision for World Cup flatlines in Canada

Although local broadcasters will offer a pair of 3D games, few viewers will enjoy them unless cinema deal is worked out

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A screenshot of team England from EA's 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

England wins World Cup!

In several unbiased simulations of 2010 FIFA World Cup’s tournament mode for the PS3, the Three Lions win every time

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