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If you have the FB app on your "Smart Phone", Facebook is allowing all of your numbers that are stored in your phone (not just your facebook contacts) to be accessible online for any and everybody to see!

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook's marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached Facebook requires all members to use their real names and email addresses when joining the social network

Via Coolthings.com: Summer is hellish hot. And when your whole country is trying to conserve energy, as they are doing in Japan, people need to find alternatives to turning up the AC. The Cool Foam is one of these new solutions. Packaged in 220 ml. aerosol cans similar to silly strings (or the Turbo Tango), […]

Today Facebook announced the addition of Skype video-chatting services to the ever popular social networking site. Facebook at present is the biggest social networking site in the world, having over 500 million active users. Skype had 663 million registered users as of 2010– with the two internet powerhouses joining together, the possibilities are endless. Read […]

Apple has gotten a lot of attention recently for the unveiling of its iCloud, but in the video-game sphere, two companies already in the “cloud” — delivering complex games via the Net to smaller, simpler devices than consoles and PCs — unveiled new advances. Many games will be able to be adapted for touchscreen control […]

The "Wii U" is Nintendo's follow-up to its popular Wii console

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Nintendo is taking the idea of the "second screen" to a new level. For example, in a video demo of the system, which Nintendo showed off during a press conference at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, a player puts his finger on a throwing star on the remote control's screen. With a swipe, the player throws this weapon at the TV screen across the room, and the object shows up there immediately -- as if it really flew through the air.

Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

Savvy marketers have one surefire way to get smartphone-toting customers in the door: let them book appointments through an appDroid- and iPhone-