Posted October 30, 2014 by The DiJulius Group This list was composed by one of the leading experts in world class customer service. 1. “No problem” – The biggest street-slang terms used in every business today are the responses “no problem” or “not a problem.” By saying “no problem” the message is that what the […]

Businesses are thanking veterans today, Veterans Day 2014, with deals and freebies for everything from wings to drinks and desserts. Before you try to redeem these deals, it’s a good idea to call ahead and note limitations and restrictions. Some of these deals are reserved for those who have served in the American military and […]

By VIVIAN YEENOV. 9, 2014 Fulton Center, a Subway Complex, Reopens in Lower Manhattan The glass-and-steel prism called Fulton Center began life as a public-transit labyrinth, a spaghetti-bowl tangle of dimly-lit corridors, narrow switchbacks and baffling signage cobbled together out of five subway stations built in the early 1900s. A century later, and more than […]

(CNN) — In the new movie “Interstellar,” Earth is on the brink of becoming uninhabitable and the future of human life rests in the hands of Matthew McConaughey. Or rather, it rests in the hands of the farmer and former NASA pilot McConaughey plays in “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan’s latest epic that is pretty much guaranteed […]

New York (AFP) – It’s a $95-million view from the tallest residential tower in the Americas. But the newest addition to Manhattan’s iconic skyline has attracted a cloud of controversy. Still under construction and with US flags pinned patriotically to its shell, 432 Park Avenue soars above Midtown, casting a shadow over Central Park and […]

Spam seems to arrive in every single email account we use, no matter how careful we are. How are spammers getting all our email addresses? And can we do anything to hide our email address from spammers? Unfortunately, there’s not a lot you can do to prevent spammers from bombarding you with emails. There are […]

By Kate Morris Every four years, on the Tuesday after November’s first Monday, American citizens will walk, drive, bus, train to their designated voting polls across the nation. Perhaps they’ll buy a cupcake from a nearby bake sale, some will leave with various congratulatory buttons and stickers, and, somewhere along the way these eligible voters […]

In 1991, the visionary computer scientist Marc Weiser declared that “the most profound technologies are those that disappear.” Weiser is considered by many to be the father of ubiquitous computing, what we now call (for better or worse) the Internet of Things. What Weiser imagined in the early ’90s has mostly come to pass: connected […]

By Hellion Of all the holidays, Halloween stands out as the best example of the quintessential American “melting pot,” that is, a melange of beliefs, rituals, or traditions, both religious or pagan, that stem from all cultures living in America. October 31 marks the observation of Halloween or Hallowe’en, a short variation of All-hallow-even, the […]