Gunmen prowled the town for up to eight hours, pulling people from their homes, hotels and venues screening World Cup football matches.
Fans - about three million attending the games and possibly four billion watching on TV - will be viewing, chatting, voting and betting simultaneously on a variety of digital devices, making it a truly multi-screen World Cup.
The large-screen, suction-cup-mounted GPS units feature touchscreens and real-time traffic updates, as well as voice-to-text interaction.
The radio station is a mess of mixing desks and screens, and cups of coffee growing cold as presenters fade up the microphones, with only a fraction of a second to spare.
The FA's need is more pressing because of their own dire economic situation following the collapse of Setanta, who had a joint £425m deal with ITV to screen the FA Cup and England's home internationals.
The project to build a headquarters for football development has been mothballed and appears unlikely to be resurrected while the FA are looking for a broadcaster to replace Setanta, who screened the FA Cup matches and England's away qualifiers.
Short of a total ban on alcohol at street festivals, New York City could put other restrictions into effect: limit the number of drinks per consumer; limit the size of drink cups; screen out under-age attendees; or separate drinking areas from family-friendly zones.
One of the products that struck me as most inventive was the Fling, a pair of sliding buttons that affix to the iPad screen with suction cups and act as virtual joysticks, allowing you to control games as you would on a portable game machine.
But take away the advantage of television - Mexico 70 was the first World Cup screened all over the globe - and their predecessors from 12 years earlier have a much better claim.
Antimicrobial activity of ethanol, methanol and acetone extract of in vitro and ex vitro plants of B. monnieri were screened by agar cup method against five MDR-UTI bacteria, four MDR-RTI bacteria and three microbial type culture collection (MTCC) bacteria and two fungi.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks on two different World Cup screening venues in the capital on July 11 , 2010that left nearly 80 people dead.
