Four years ago, the vuvuzela was having a moment. An “instrument of torture” alone, a “swarm of angry bees” in a pack, the South African plastic horn droned endlessly in the background of World Cup ...

It's a sad state of affairs when a cheap plastic horn is the talk of the World Cup - perhaps it's because the football so far has been pretty dismal - but, undeniably, the vuvuzela has so far been the ...

Do you hear that? The hideous, piercing dirge of a B-flat drone that is the unfortunate backdrop to every single World Cup match? It's the vuvuzela, a stupid plastic trumpet that has infested the ...

At the 2010 World Cup Games in South Africa, it was vuvuzelas — long, yellow plastic horns that sounded like geese honking through megaphones. They filled stadiums with a menacing buzz which disrupted ...

After the South African World Cup draws to a close Sunday, the nation will surely quiet down. International crowds will clear out, returning to their homes. The FIFA radius around stadiums will fold, ...

The controversial noise-maker's incessant drone almost got it officially banned. JOHANNESBURG, June 4, 2010 -- Millions of soccer fans will be watching the World Cup in South Africa starting next week ...

Vuvuzelas, the yard-long plastic horns deafening fans in South Africa’s World Cup soccer stadiums, have become one of the country’s fastest-selling sports items, leaving manufacturers struggling to ...

Hartford, Connecticut (CNN)-- If you have a TV you have heard, or heard of, vuvuzelas. They're the cheap plastic horns played by tens of thousands of spectators in World Cup soccer stadiums in South ...

The Vuvuzela has become the unofficial symbol of the 2010 World Cup - and seems to be loved and hated in equal measure. Here are 10 things you might not know about the tuneless horn. It is plastic ...

Secure messaging systems are vulnerable to generic traffic analysis attacks. In a time of „Five Eyes“ network monitoring almost everywhere, researchers are looking for solutions. „Vuvuzela“ tries to ...