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Apps to feed the soccer addiction

Friday, June 27th, 2014

If you still don’t know there’s a World Cup soccer tournament running in Brazil, I suspect you’re hibernating somewhere on the outskirts of Mongolia.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is the 20th FIFA World Cup tournament and (obviously!) an international tournament for men’s soccer. This year the tournament kicked off on 12 June with a group phase and it will come to an end on 13 July when the final will be played.

It’s the second time Brazil hosts this spectacular event – the first was way back in 1950. It’s also the first time since 1978, when it was held in Argentina, that it’s held in South America.

The national teams of 31 countries qualified for this year’s World Cup. Unfortunately South Africa isn’t one of them, so you’ll have to pick another team. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 cities across Brazil.

If you’ve been bitten by the soccer bug, you’ll know how important it is to keep up to date of all the latest news and match information. With the help of www.techradar.com we selected ten handy (and free!) apps to ensure you don’t suffer from soccer FOMO.

1 Official FIFA application

Price: Free
Available at:  App Store | Google Play

FIFA’s official application not only covers the World Cup, but all soccer events worldwide. This app gives you access to match schedules, but also cool extra information like team profiles. You can even choose your favourite team and keep tabs on their progress.

2 ESPN FC Soccer & World Cup

Price: Free
Available at: App Store | Google Play

Another app addressing all soccer events – ideal for avid soccer supporters. In addition to the standard information, it also supplies videos and analysis of matches.

3 World Soccer Finals

Price: Free
Available at:  App Store | Google Play

A perfect solution for the obsessive soccer enthusiast with loads of information, including yellow and red card and player information. It can also send notifications directly to your phone.

 4 World Cup 2014 Brazil

Price: Free
Available at: Google Play

This Android app will be your choice if you’re a closet statistician. It also has information on referees, historical comparisons and news on future World Cups.

5 2014 Table

Price: Free
Available at: Google Play

The name says exactly what this app does. It displays results in an easy table format and is perfect for accessing information quickly.

6 LiveSoccer World Football Cup

Price: Free
Available at: Google Play

Watch live matches with customisable alerts of results as they happen. The app has an extensive interface, but still remains user friendly.

7 Sofascore

Price: Free
Available at: Windows Phone App Store

Ideal for a Windows phone with live updates.

8 Squawka

Price: Free
Available at: App Store

Another app for the soccer fan who likes to get his facts straight.  Squawka gives you all the statistics to back up an argument when you need to.

9 TeamStream

Price: Free
Available at: App Store

TeamStream is a news and information service by The Bleacher Report which collects any relevant soccer news from across the world.

10 BBC Sport

Price: Free
Available at: App Store | Google Play

The BBC Sport app gives live text commentary on all the matches and access to Radio 5 bulletins.

If you have a lot of data at your disposal, you might want to consider the Live Soccer TV App.

So, now you have no excuse to miss out on this huge event. The only problem is finding a team to back …

 

[SOURCES: www.techradar.com & www.wikipedia.com]

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Download the mobile Inetkey application

Friday, February 14th, 2014

With the growing amount of mobile applications used on a daily basis, a need arose for a simple, effective Inetkey application that can be used on all devices and platforms – including Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows.

After extensive testing on most available platforms, the official Inetkey app was launched on iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry. You can download the appropriate version by clicking on the links below.

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Non-official Inetkey mobile applications exist, but have been developed by independent individuals and are not supported or endorsed by Information Technology. Unofficial Inetkey apps carry the risk that they may intercept users’ credentials, which could be abused or stolen.  A user keys credentials into an app and does not know how or where they are stored or communicated, or even if it’s secured.

We can accept no responsibility if users download these apps and experience problems.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON INTERNET AND INETKEY, PLEASE CONSULT OUR SERVICE CATALOGUE

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Free YouTube?

Friday, November 1st, 2013

If you’ve been surfing YouTube the past week, whether for academic purposes or for your video fix, you might have noticed something interesting – Inetkey wasn’t always necesary to access videos. And you observation would be correct.

Good news for us, but we first we need to explain how it works so you won’t be caught off guard.

Stellenbosch University’s internet is routed through Tenet (The Tertiary Education and Research network), a network infrastructure aiming to provide the best possible internet infrastructure to academic institutions. For this reason Tenet’s server is open and accessible to SU staff at no cost and without Inetkey.

But how is this relevant to YouTube? Tenet is hosting a version of YouTube on it’s server cache to enable easier and faster access for their users.

To establish which network should be used for a request and to select the shortest route  for traffic to travel to follow, Google uses algorithms, also known as geo-tagging. In our case Google decides to direct your YouTube request to Tenet instead of one of their servers located overseas.

The risk in the current situation is that Google might decide to use another cache for optimal network capacity and free content will change to paid content once again.

All YouTube content isn’t necessarily part of the cache. Tenet caches the data according to demand. To ensure you don’t pay, keep’Inetkey closed when browsing YouTube.

However, until Google changes it’s route, you can play around on YouTube to your heart’s content. Just remember to keep your Inetkey closed, otherwise you’re in for a big surprise at the end of the month.

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