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Americans crave football and appreciate a positive customer service experience. They pay, on average, about $100 a year for sports programming. Seventy-three percent of U.S. males and 55 percent of females watch football. How do they get their football fix? Sixty percent watch NFL football on television sets, and eight percent catch games on their computers. Twenty-seven percent of Americans watch between six and ten hours of football per week during the NFL season. The cable industry is thriving—it raked in 97.6 billion in revenue last year alone. So, how do consumers feel about the customer…

Iron Man 3 opens the 2013 summer blockbuster season on May 3rd. This season (as with a few in the past decade) appears to be loaded with geek-favoring titles that should keep the trend of Hollywood success going strong this summer, but one does not have to wait four months to get their geeky fix in at the cinema. Here are 12 movies due out over the next few months to keep us occupied until summer.   Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters January 25 Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton play the grown up variations of the child heroes. They got their taste of witch blood early. Now they’ve taken their skills to a…

Enjoy the thrills and the rush of a Formula One car without the fear of colliding into anything at 200mph. This life size simulator is not only designed to look like a true race car and through the use of high-end technology the driver will feel as though they were behind the wheel of a race car on a race track without ever moving. As the driver, you will be in full control and will require you to take all the actions as if you were truly in the driver’s seat of a race car; you will need to hit the gas pedal to accelerate and hit the brakes when needed, not to mention the force you will feel within the steering wheel…

Any Jedi knows that when killing a Wampa you must use all of its parts and what better use of a Wampa arm than to use it as a windshield scraper? Defeat the ice and snow this winter with a warm ice scraper you cover over your hand and forearm with the power of feeling like you defeated a Wampa of your very own. …

It’s getting more difficult all the time to blow the minds of kids today. They’re more computer literate before hitting junior high than most of their parents. Toddlers can work an iPad before they can tie their shoe. The graphics on video games and movies are real enough to fool the eye (something we tested recently with Skyrim and Facebook). 3D was big for a few minutes in 2010, then faded into obscurity. The technology was the big thing at CES 2010 and was barely represented at all at this year’s CES. In 1953, St. John Pubications released something that blew the minds of kids and adults alike. 3D had…

Our friendly felines love to have freedom to roam and the last thing we ever want to do is yell at kitty to get down from spots he or she is not supposed to jump up on, but kitty will be kitty and jumping they will do. Most of us have cats that own us and for the most part we surrender, however it is hard to explain to dinner guests why the turkey got eaten or finding time to constantly brush the couch (you know you swear by your schticky). Therefore a solution to keep both you and your cat happy has been created. …

It doesn’t matter whether you like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga. The fact that the #1 and #2 most followed accounts on Twitter are about to flip positions is important for the sustained success of Twitter. The key to understanding why is in the audience. Today’s kids are tomorrow’s adults. One of the biggest reasons that MySpace was beaten out so easily by Facebook a few years ago was because MySpace did not grow its base up and down. It had a niche, the people who were in or just out of high school in the mid 2000s, and did not do enough to appeal to the next generation of young people nor the older people who…

We are well aware of trolls and spammers and know when to spot one and opt-out of engaging in their foolishness or awful sites. However, many of us are not familiar with the more discreet type of social media hazard, the social media user. …

We all anxiously awaited our return to the Shire and into Middle Earth’s fantasy concocted by J.R.R Tolkien and Peter Jackson and now that we have had another taste of precious magic, we surely cannot wait to watch it again when it comes out on Blu-Ray. But why wait? When you can have a Hobbit hole of your very own, whether it is as a shed, sauna, chicken coop or cottage, a Hobbit hole waits for you to take home. …

Some of you may have caught the Golden Globes last night on television and perhaps enjoyed the hosts more than the nominations or winners even. One of the nominations was for the well-known musical turned movie Les Miserable. As with any traditional media having the ability to change a mistake once printed is a lot harder than it would be to correct an online image or a tweet. The movie critics fair this movie well but let’s hope they get it better than this newspaper did. …