In contrast, during the World Cup in 2006, only 48-million unique users visited Fifa.com over the four weeks of the tournament's duration. The single day record was set on June 22 when Italy played the Czech Republic and generated 250-million unique views.
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Contact Lens Giant Alcon Licenses Google Smart Lens Tech - 2 views
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The Google X project is now officially in lock step with healthcare giant Novartis, the parent of Alcon, which produces some of the most-widely used contact lens products on the market, including Air Optix, FreshLook and Dailies. Novartis will work on turning Google's lab project into smart contact lenses for people around the world.
Nissan Introduces a Smart Watch. Seriously. - 0 views
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Consumer electronics companies and chipmakers aren't the only players entering the wearable tech space. Nissan is joining the fray too, with what it alleges is the first smart watch to connect the car and driver. Nissan will be showing off the device - dubbed the Nissan Nismo Watch - at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It's Nissan's first entry into the world of wearable tech.
Record traffic for websites during World Cup - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart ne... - 0 views
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In 2006, social networking was just hitting the big time: MySpace was still big, and Facebook had opened its doors to anyone in the world. YouTube was also rising in popularity. Bluetooth and 3G internet were slowly beginning to be incorporated into lower-end phones. The Motorola RAZR was the most popular phone of the year.
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seven million visits per minute -- during the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany when the United States lost to Ghana
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Google Eyes the Future With Augmented Reality Glasses - 1 views
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Google has created a pair of AR glasses that would allow you to interact with your world just like a smart phone-but instead of holding it in your hand, you wear it on your face.
The Machines Are Talking a Lot - Technology Review - 0 views
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But you might be surprised by the second-leading source of the expected surge in traffic. It won't come from people, but from machine-to-machine communications, or "M2M." Think of sensors in cars and in appliances, surveillance cameras, smart electric meters, and devices still to come, monitoring the world and reporting to each other and to centralized computers what they're detecting. The chart below, reprinted from the Cisco report, shows just how extreme the jump in machine-to-machine communications could be. It is expected to grow, on average, 86 percent a year, and by 2016 it is expected to reach 508 petabytes a month, or half a billion gigabytes.
