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Have 2 Minutes? Check Out Who Has Access to Your Social Media AccountsThere are more than 130 Facebook app developers with access to my profile. Sixty-eight apps have permission to post to my Twitter feed, eight of them can access my LinkedIn data and another eight are connected to my Gmail account. You don’t have to be an online privacy expert to understand ... U.S. Customs Denies iPad Passport Scan Got Canadian Across BorderYou may have read about a Canadian man who got into the U.S.A. with no passport and only a scan of it on his iPad to show that he had one. After reviewing the situation for a few minutes, the border guard let him through and wished the man happy holidays. So you can now get into the country with ... Mimbo the iPhone Robot Mimics Your EmotionsInterested in robotics, but building a robot seems too complex and you can’t afford an Asimo? The folks at Instructables have a solution: Mimbo, a simple, iPhone-based robot in a cardboard body that mimics your facial expressions. At first glance, Mimbo isn’t really all that interest... Warning: Scam Baits Facebook Timeline Haters [VIDEO]Don’t like the new Facebook Timeline? Well, don’t fall for links or apps that claim to revert back to the old Facebook. New scams that promise just that are popping up on Facebook and targeting users who want to remove their Timelines. Check out the video above to learn more... 10 Things You Can Fit Into Your 63,206-Character Facebook StatusFollowing a slew of other major updates, Facebook announced in November that its users would be able to share status updates up to 63,206 characters long. That’s a little harder to visualize than Twitter’s 140-character limit. So, we measured 10 other textual things to determine wheth... Shorty Awards Opens Voting, Adds ‘Best Presidential Candidate’ CategoryThe Shorty Awards, an annual crowdsourced contest that honors social media professionals, agencies and brands, launched its nomination phase Wednesday with improved campaign tools and new categories. Among the new categories Shorty Awards producer Sawhorse Media added this year is “Best Pre... Verizon: CEO CES Keynote Cancellation Unrelated to Recent TravailsIt’s been a tumultuous couple weeks for Verizon, and now company CEO Lowell McAdam has canceled his scheduled keynote appearance at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show. Verizon said this week that a “schedule change” prevented McAdam from following through on h... Facebook Warning: App Profile Pages Set For DeletionFacebook App Profile Page managers have begun receiving notifications that their Profile Pages will be eliminated Feb. 1. Administrators can transfer Likes to their new Facebook Pages, if they take action in advance. “In December we announced to developers that we’ll remove App Profi... Dear Rick Santorum: 6 Ways to Fix Your Google ProblemRick Santorum, you’ve had a “Google problem” for years. A search for your last name reveals not your own website or Wikipedia page, but a website that associates your name with an explicit term describing the after-effects of certain type of sexual activity. The website was put ... Kodak Set to Declare Bankruptcy [REPORT]Eastman Kodak will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over coming weeks unless it can sell its collection of digital patents, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter,” reports Kodak is in talks with lenders about $1 billion in fun... |