The Nashua Mobile Future Stars initiative, which gives young sporting stars from disadvantaged backgrounds a boost in their careers, is helping new sports talents such as Wandile Mjekevu to rise to prominence.

Lexmark has announced two new News & Sports SmartSolutions, ESPN and BBC, which will ensure global sports fans and “news junkies” remain informed.

At this year’s Wimbledon Championships, IBM (NYSE:IBM) will allow tennis fans to ‘see through walls’ at the tournament, ensuring they never miss a big point again.

With the World Cup underway, Wapple has lent its skills to the 1Goal education charity campaign to develop a mobile web site that will promote the importance of education for all in the fight against world poverty.

SMSStreamer.mobi, a mobile information service from Cole Solutions, is offering a new match alert service that will help mobile phone users to stay on top of the match fixtures for the Fifa World Cup 2010.

For those looking to prove their team is the ultimate soccer powerhouse, QlikTech, a software company known for visual, interactive data dashboards, has created a free application that allows fans access to statistics about the upcoming international soccer tournament.

While the 2010 soccer world cup is predicted to bring a massive surge in activity to South Africa’s entertainment, travel and tourism sectors, the steps many organisations have had to take in order to become ‘FIFA compliant’ are onerous to say the least.

Payroll can be a complex area within any business, but the sports arena boasts an added level of intricacy with variables that do not feature on any corporate payroll. 

With preparations for the soccer World Cup in 2010 due to get underway in earnest this year, broadcasters and production houses are being urged to go with proven solutions.