Photos: The World Cup runs on tech

Eight years ago, the more sophisticated World Cup coverage featured an email every time a goal was scored. Now sites give almost live play-by-play and analysis. Some of the more involved include broadcasters ITV Sport and BBC Sport, which provides live TV coverage in the UK only, the irreverent Football365, German coverage from DW-world.de and the official FIFA site. Plus there are many, many more.

Here's a screen shot of the BBC's live coverage of the first match. The Yahoo/FIFA live Match Data site was experiencing technical difficulties for the first match.

Credit: BBC.co.uk

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