To unleash the vuvuzela sound, you can either continuously tap the vuvuzela icon or shake your phone. Doing this gets tiresome, though, and this vuvuzela sounds more like an air horn than the real ...

Despite what it may sound like, teams in the 2010 World Cup have not been competing inside a giant bee hive. That buzzing comes from a South African horn called the vuvuzela, and its constant ...

Roughly three feet long, the vuvuzela sounds like the elephant trunk it resembles when blown solo. But when blown en masse, as is custom wherever soccer is played in South Africa, it's like a ...

Beloved in South Africa, the noise-making horn, which sounds a bit like the drone of wasps, has been an issue of contention among international teams since last year's Confederations Cup.

Soccer fans may be sick of hearing the sound of the vuvuzela, but a small business in Birmingham, Ala., is cashing in on the popularity of the noisemaker. Last year they predicted the horns would ...

About time too some might argue after the raucous cacophony of the vuvuzela – the long, plastic horn trumpeted on the terraces during the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa.

While the vuvuzela was not exactly a grassroots phenomenon— despite arguments over the horn’s invention, a single company popularized it in 2002—it was at least in widespread use in the ...

The vuvuzela, a plastic horn based on a traditional South African instrument, makes a loud, raucous buzzing sound and became a symbol of South African football after fans adopted it as an ...

Nothing represents the sheer exuberance of South African soccer fans better than the "vuvuzela," the trombone-length plastic horn that will be heard in force starting Friday at the World Cup.

The vuvuzela, a plastic horn based on a traditional South African instrument, makes a loud, raucous buzzing sound and became a symbol of South African football after fans adopted it as an ...

Many World Cup fans might despise South Africa's noisy vuvuzelas, but two German entrepreneurs with the resale rights for Europe hope the plastic fan horns will become the sound of success.