There was a lot of news this past week. Here are some stories that caught our eyes. This Mascot’s Sweet Surprise for a Deaf Fan at the Ballpark was a Grand Slam of Awesomeness —The Huffington Post Hunter Samworth, 7, is deaf and a huge fan of Heater, the mascot for the Day

Two of our member venues have received Google Glass to experiment with in order to learn about the pros and cons of the technology when using it in a facility. We’ll be following their progress on the blog here and in FM magazine. This first blog post is written by Ruth Fajardo

It’s becoming a Google world, and we’re just living in it. Take, for example, its new endeavor called Project Tango. According to its website, “Project Tango is an attempt to create a mobile device unlike like any other, a mobile device that shares our sense of space

Does your venue have the bandwidth it needs to stay competitive? Wi-Fi traffic in the U.S. is growing at 68 percent per year. Consumers rely on Wi-Fi for fast and convenient connections to the Internet as part of their home, school, and work lives, and are increasingly looking for way

One of our members, Michael Marion, passed along some information from Ticketmaster. It’s about scalping and a way to help stop it. It’s good info, so we thought we’d share it with you, too. “There are a number of ways resellers trick fans into thinking they