We’ve had quite a bit of 3D news to share this year, with the Yankees-Mariners games during the summer and the Giants-Patriots game back in September.  Today we’re announcing even more 3D programming with ten 3D movies on FiOS TV Video on Demand.

Starting Nov. 16 with the premiere of “Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore,” we’ll feature eight 3D films in November and two more in December.

On the heels of outperforming our East Coast competitors for the third year in a row for video services as cited by J.D. Power and Associates, our broadband Internet services have scooped up additional recognition from J.D. Power.

Verizon’s consumer broadband services – FiOS Internet and High Speed Internet (HSI) –outperformed all our competitors when it comes to overall customer satisfaction in the South region, according to the J.D. Power and Associates’ “2010 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study^SM” released Thursday.

Verizon landline operations in Florida and Texas are considered part of the J.D. Power South region, and our broadband services outscored 12 other providers -- including our chief Florida competitor Bright House-- in overall satisfaction and two critical factors: performance and reliability, and offerings and promotions.

With October and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) coming to an end, we hope you’ve seen some of the online safety tips we’ve provided on Twitter as well as here at the Verizon at Home blog, NCSAM is a national public awareness campaign promoted by National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) that encourages all digital citizens to be safer online.

But being responsible online doesn’t end on Oct. 31.

If you’re a broadband customer – and most of us are – we live in exciting times.  We’re using more bandwidth-hungry apps like HD video streaming, and providers are pushing more speed through their networks to meet our demands.

Whether you’re a Verizon customer or not, your provider may be offering you higher broadband speeds than it did a year or two ago. Cable has upped the ante with DOCSIS 3.0, particularly in areas where they’re seeing competition, and the Fiber to the Home Council reports that smaller wireline carriers are following Verizon’s lead and building all-fiber networks.

But what happens next? Some experts say bandwidth demands are growing tenfold every six years. Some say the rate of change is even greater. Will your provider be able to offer ultra-fast speeds when you’re ready for them?

We love talking Social TV on the blog, so when we have a new FiOS TV app or enhancements to existing ones, we want to tell our At Home followers about it first.  Today, we have some news about updates to the Twitter Widget on FiOS TV.

When we launched the Twitter Widget last year, we asked our At Home readers and Twitter followers for feedback since we’re always look for ways to make the customer experience even better.  Your biggest advice was to make the Twitter Widget more like Twitter itself, and that’s exactly what we’ve done.

Available this week, the new features let customers RT (ReTweet) other posts to their followers, send a DM (Direct Message), view their profile, view global trending topics and local trending topics.  Want to add more than one Twitter account to your FiOS TV?  You can do that too; in fact, customers can add up to four accounts.

Remember when cell phones were used for just talking?  My how the world has changed.  Today’s mobile devices are steadily turning into texting and video-messaging machines and portable video viewers.

With this change in the way people communicate, we think it’s increasingly important to offer value-rich bundles that provide consumers the flexibility to mix and match wireless and wireline services, plus reward them with financial incentives.

Our latest offer does just that as we combine our highly regarded broadband services -- Verizon FiOS and High Speed Internet service -- with a Verizon Visa^® prepaid card worth up to $200 toward the purchase of a new DROID smartphone of the  customer’s choice.

As more consumers use multiple devices for entertainment, we believe we’re enhancing the overall value of Verizon’s bundles by adding another screen to our customers’ viewing options with our DROID smartphone offer.

With our latest bundle offer, FiOS customers can now relish their favorite movies and photos on their TV, laptop, home computer and DROID screen.  In terms of quality, our customers are in good hands because they will be able to watch content that travels over our fiber-to-the-home network and the largest, most reliable wireless 3G network.

Have you ever asked a friend or neighbor to help you set up a TV, home entertainment system or wireless network?  Do you wish you knew of an easy way to organize photos from multiple SD cards?  

Well, there’s a great new resource available – the Verizon Community's online shared experience and tutorial site, Room To Learn.  It’s an easy way to get started and to learn to manage your digital content.  In addition to self-paced tutorials on home networking and entertainment, there are weekly features like “Synchronize Your Family” by long-time PC World contributor Alfred Poor.

If you haven’t heard already, Verizon Wireless announced on Thursday they will begin selling Apple’s iPad in stores starting October 28. This is great news for consumers, but it doesn’t stop there if you’re a FiOS TV customer.

Today, we’re letting customers know the iPhone and iPod are now compatible with FiOS Mobile Remote, an application that lets FiOS TV HD customers use select mobile phones as remote controls.  The addition of these two Apple products makes the app available on more than 40 devices, including every device running Android software v.2.1 or higher. If you want to see if your device is compatible with Mobile Remote, check out the complete list here.

You already know that FiOS is the place for football, with everything from our widgets to our amazing HD picture and sound quality.  And now we’re making our football offering a little sweeter, with $10 off the NFL RedZone channel. 

If you’re not already familiar with the channel, found on channel 835 in HD and 335 in SD, it takes viewers around the league every Sunday.

In today’s guest blog post, Verizon Games Product Manager Jason Henderson talks about the popularity of PC gaming and the newest feature of the Verizon Games library – the ability to purchase favorite game titles.

Verizon set out a couple of years ago to offer as broad a selection of games as we could manage through the online PC platform. Today, Verizon Games boasts the world’s largest online games library, with more than 1,800 games representing every genre -- from kids’ games like “Clifford the Big Red Dog” and “Jumpstart” to casual games like “Poppit! To Go” and “Luxor” to hardcore games like the “Tomb Raider” series.

These aren’t demos or limited versions.  We stock our library with the full title, the kind that you’d purchase in a store or by downloading. If you subscribe, you get every game in the library and can play as long as you remain a member.

As she enjoys coffee at the local Starbucks, a Verizon customer remembers she needs to pay her Verizon bill today. Her cell phone is all she needs to access her account. 

Twenty blocks away, another Verizon customer realizes he forgot to program his FiOS DVR for tonight’s “Glee” – so he schedules the recording with his trusty DROID Smartphone.

In the next state, yet another customer is at work anxiously awaiting an important email from her daughter on her Verizon.net account. Once again, she works through her cell phone’s browser to stay on top of things.

Today's guest blogger is Monica Vila, founder and Chief Technology Mom at TheOnlineMom.com. Monica is passionate about empowering families to make good decisions about the use of technology and is an advocate of parents embracing technology by understanding both its benefits and risks. Monica’s website, TheOnlineMom.com, provides parents with a wealth of information on how they can harness the power of technology while keeping their families safe in the digital age.  Disclosure: Monica Vila and The Online Mom are paid partners of Verizon Communications.

The Internet is a great resource for family entertainment and education. But barely a week goes by without hearing about a brand new virus that is attacking computers and networks all around the world, or the latest phishing scam that has defrauded thousands of unsuspecting individuals.

Since FiOS TV's inception in 2005, we have worked to develop the product in close collaboration with our customers.  It has always been my goal as the product director to spend as little time as possible on the white board and in the labs in favor of getting our teams into the real world with each of you.  While we aren’t perfect, I am confident that we’ve made major strides in the last five years, and we aren’t done yet. 

Today, we’re formally introducing our latest tool, the Verizon Idea Exchange, but first a little history...

We’ve done it again. For the third consecutive year, J.D. Power and Associates has found that FiOS TV outperforms our competition in the East.

FiOS TV service has been ranked “Highest in Residential Television Service Satisfaction in the East Region” in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Residential Television Service Satisfaction Study^SM.

Does fiber-optic technology really matter to consumers? Verizon’s Link Hoewing asks this question in a new post at the Verizon PolicyBlog.  For a long time, Link says, he’s believed that consumers understand that fiber makes a big difference in terms of quality, reliability, capability and performance.  Now, there’s research from the Fiber to the Home Council to support his theory. 

Link describes the research and explains why consumers believe fiber is a better technology.  Read the rest of Link's post to see why.

We love free stuff around here, and we’re always excited to tell our At Home blog readers about free programming for FiOS customers.  Starting today, we have three freebies coming up on FiOS TV that will give you a chance to sample some of our international programming.

From today through next Friday, we’re offering a free preview of one of our German channels, Deutsche Welle.  Found on channel 1787, Deutsche Welle – or DW-TV – offers a German perspective on European news.  Programs cover business, sports, culture, documentaries, lifestyle and entertainment, science, news and politics.  If you like what you see, you can subscribe to DW-TV for $9.99 per month or as part of the German package, which includes ProSeibenSat.1 Welt, for $14.99 per month.

Later this month we’ll offer a look at another international channel.  From Oct. 20-26, FiOS TV customers can check out TV Japan on channel 1770.  TV Japan offers 24-hour broadcasting featuring the latest news about Japan and the world.  You’ll find movies, documentaries, news and sports as well as lifestyle, music and children’s programming.  If you decide to subscribe to TV Japan, it’s available for $25/month.