Zynga Seeks to Match Up Players for Online Games
By DAVID STREITFELD SAN FRANCISCO — There is an old saying that if you have two real friends, you should count yourself lucky. No doubt. But you are going to have a hard time playing…
Family & Kids
Lin’s New Challenge: Media Onslaught at All-Star Weekend
By HOWARD BECK ORLANDO, Fla. — The profound changes in Jeremy Lin’s life can now be measured in microphones and cameras and the square footage needed to accommodate the growing legion of scribes hanging on…
Food Network in the Kitchen: A delicious app
By Marc Saltzma If you spend a lot of time with Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay on TV, why not take these chefs into your kitchen via your iPad? The new and improved…
Where the iPad 2 lets you down: Top 12 complaints
The iPad 2 is the best tablet available, but it brings its own share of frustrations. By Galen Gruman I really like the iPad 2. I use mine every day for work and personal purposes,…
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
By CHARLES DUHIGG Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted…
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
By Kashmir Hill Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you…
Apple’s GarageBand And iTunes Have Some New Competition
By Kym McNicholas The former head of Virgin Records, Matt Serletic, is hoping to give Apple‘s GargeBand and iTune’s a little competition. The Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter has started his own music making business, Music Mastermind,…
Hip Hop Mogul to Unveil Plan for Music Cable Channel
By BRIAN STELTER Like Oprah Winfrey and Ryan Seacrest before him, the music mogul Sean Combs wants a spot on the cable channel lineup. Mr. Combs will unveil on Tuesday his plans for a music-oriented…
How Exercise Fuels the Brain
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Moving the body demands a lot from the brain. Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, rapid-fire messages from the nervous system, coordinating muscle contractions, vision, balance, organ function…
Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover
By Adrianne Jeffries Flickr’s head of product is about to push big changes after a year on the job. Markus Spiering has, as they say, a good eye. Most of his resume was in mobile…
Trampoline parks face scrutiny over safety
The death of a 30-year-old man who broke his neck in a fall at a Phoenix trampoline park highlights the safety issues and lack of regulations covering these popular indoor venues. More than a half-dozen…
Young, Obese and in Surgery
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Though Shani Gofman had been teased for being fat since the fourth grade, she had learned to deal with it. She was a B student and in the drama club at school….
How to Start a Trampoline Center
If you are considering opening a trampoline center, trampoline park or trampoline arena, step one is being sure to avoid the mistakes that other entrepreneurs learned the hard way. Thinking about opening a trampoline center?…
Google TV Honeycomb Update Rolling Out to Logitech Revue
Logitech said Wednesday that its Google TV device, the Logitech Revue, will be upgraded to Honeycomb this week, providing access to the Android Market. Android 3.1 will be delivered via a software update, Ashish Arora,…
Google TV will Dominate, Android Will Win Devs in 2012
Google finally upgrades When Google TV first came out we had high hopes that Google Inc. (GOOG) would deliver a dynamic product like Android. Instead, the project imploded leading one partner to ditch the fledgling…
Trampoline jumping: Safe for kids?
My 7-year-old is begging for a backyard trampoline, but I’m worried that she could hurt herself while jumping. Am I worried for nothing? Answer from Jay L. Hoecker, M.D. Your worries about trampoline jumping are…
Trampoline Safety Alert
Consumer Product Safety Alert FROM THE U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20207 Trampoline Safety Alert The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants you and your family to be safe when using…
REDLINE SPORTS comes to South Florida
REDLINE SPORTS comes to Fort Lauderdale in January 2013 REDLINE SPORTS REDLINE SPORTS Family Entertainment Centers, Fun Centers, Amusement Parks and Children’s Entertainment Centers – the resources you are looking for to design, build, open…
Who discovered Gravity?
Gravity was discovered 3 centuries ago by a mathematician and physicist named Sir Isaac Newton. He discovered that there is a specific force,which we call gravity, that is required to change the speed or direction…
Lazer Tag Equipment
In the amusement and family entertainment center business there are a few key activities : Laser Tag, Go-Karts, Indoor Playgrounds, Amusement Rides, Coin Operated Games and Miniature Golf being the most prominent. For the successful…
How Much Does It Cost to Start Your Own Laser Tag Business?
According to Entrepreneur, the costs to start up a laser tag business can be as low as $10,000 or higher than $50,000. Setting up a venue so that a unique game playing area is offered…
Start a Laser Tag Business
If you are looking to start a laser tag business you will need the best tools to succeed. The laser tag market is a highly lucrative business when done right. It is really in its…
Business Idea Center: Laser Tag
Laser Tag Startup Costs: $10,000 – $50,000 Franchises Available? No Online Operation? No Business Overview Indoor laser tag is quickly becoming as popular as paint ball games, and starting a laser tag recreation center may…
How to Start a Laser Tag Business
By Shanika Chapman Laser tag is a fun, family-friendly recreational activity popular among youth and adults for team-building events, birthdays, youth group events and more. Compete with other fun centers in your area by designing…
Smartphone Apps Send Holiday Greetings
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
Voice Messaging Services Aimed at the Masses
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP SINGAPORE — Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest movie stars, writes a blog and is widely followed on social media. The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008…
What’s in a Name? Ask Google
By ALLEN SALKIN KALIA is a stripper name, but Kaleya is not, her parents-to-be concluded. No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting…
Retailers Enliven Catalog Offerings Through Apps
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When you browse Anthropologie’s stores, you feel as if you’re wandering through an artsy home, where there are sure to be closets full of eclectic outfits, bedrooms with bohemian quilts and…
Patent Office Highlights Jobs’s Innovations
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
Costco Urges Stricter Safety Measures on Cantaloupes
By WILLIAM NEUMAN As the death toll rose this week in a devastating listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes, a national food retailer said that cantaloupe farmers and shippers must confront a history of food safety problems and…
Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some
By NICK BILTON It finally makes sense to me. On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about…
Amazon’s Tablet Leads to Its Store
By JENNA WORTHAM and DAVID STREITFELD With a glossy 7-inch color touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon on Wednesday, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
Schools Restore Fresh Cooking to the Cafeteria
By KIRK JOHNSON GREELEY, Colo. — The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many parts of the nation in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with…
Buffalo Grove weighs trampoline park safety
Buffalo Grove is asking the operator of a proposed trampoline club to address safety concerns as it weighs whether to approve the park owner’s application for a special-use permit, officials said. Xtreme Trampolines, which already…
2012 Transformers Special Edition Camaro Coupe Revealed
With the third Transformers film hitting theaters this week, it’s no surprise that Chevrolet would release a 2012 Transformers Special Edition Camaro Coupe to mark the release of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. As astute…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ defines summer moviemaking
With “Transformers,” the third time is apparently the charm. Not that there’s much that’s actually charming about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” It is the same sort of deafening mayhem celebration as its two absolutely…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets Director: Michael Bay Writer: Ehren Kruger Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley…
Wal-Mart Shifts Strategy to Promote Healthy Foods
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: January 20, 2011 WASHINGTON — Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, will announce a five-year plan on Thursday to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in unhealthy salts, fats and…
10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
Top 10 Android Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
Mac App Store Opens for Business
By NICK BILTON The Mac App Store officially opened for business on Thursday, with Apple offering customers a new way to instantly purchase and download software for their Mac computers and laptops. Steven P. Jobs,…
Great Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
by Alton Brown Ingredients: 1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey For the brine: 1 cup kosher salt 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1 gallon vegetable stock 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 1 1/2 teaspoons…
Facebook to Start an E-Mail Service
By MIGUEL HELFT Facebook has more than 500 million users around the world. And Americans spend more of their time online with Facebook than with any other Internet company, including Google and Yahoo. Now the…
While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales
By MICHAEL MOSS Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from…
Calories Burned From Jumping on a Trampoline
By Clint Hale People attempt to burn calories in a number of ways. Some prefer standard forms of exercise such as weightlifting, jogging and aerobics, while others have gotten into alternative forms, such as Pilates…
The Trampoline – Sports Science
The trampoline is a gymnastics device, constructed from a very strong, tightly stretched material, attached with springs to a frame. The trampoline was invented by American George Nissen in the period after 1930, when as…
Trampoline Exercise Routines
What’s a trampoline for if not to have fun on? Sure enough, trampoline exercise routines are good for people who avoid gyms like the plague and are bored by normal, mundane routines. A trampoline is easy…
What are Some Trampoline Exercise Ideas?
Trampoline exercise is a great way to stay fit. It is much easier on the joints than walking or jogging on a hard surface. Additionally, most trampolineexercises can be done on a backyard trampoline or a mini trampoline, making…