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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail — Google says it may allow people to participate in Google Buzz without having it integrated within Gmail, in addition to offering a combined Gmail service. That may be a welcome move from users of both products, especially in light …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Responds To Blogger's Outrage With Product Tweaks (GOOG) — Google (GOOG) is rolling out two more privacy tweaks for Google Buzz in response to a post by an outraged blogger who claimed that Google Buzz had given her abusive ex-husband and his friends access to personal information.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google says VP's comments misconstrued, not taking Buzz out of Gmail — In an update to an earlier post, Google says vice president of product marketing Bradley Horowitz' comments were misconstrued by SearchEngineLand. He had told the blog that Google was considering separating its brand-new social networking service Buzz from Gmail.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Rumoured Microsoft Project Pink phone “Turtle” confirmed at FCC — Sharp has revealed pictures of the rumoured Microsoft “Project Pink” device ‘Turtle’ in an FCC filing this week. — Sharp manufactured the original Sidekick for Danger, a company Microsoft acquired in February 2008.
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Pokeyourheadoff / ZuneBoards:
Rumored Pink Phone “Turtle” Filed at FCC — Does this look familiar to you? Well it should: — Image Source: Gizmodo — Today, Sharp, who manufactured the Sidekick for Danger, filed with the FCC for a “CDMA Slide Phone with WLAN & BT,” a device that looks remarkably like the images …
Bloomberg:Microsoft Bets on Smartphone-Software Upgrade to Fight IPhone, BlackBerry
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Google pulls Vancouver luge crash video off YouTube, still up elsewhere — The horrific luge crash in Vancouver today won't get much play on YouTube: Google quickly removed uploaded film clips at the request of the International Olympic Committee, activating its copy-protection tools.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
A Guide To Following The 2010 Winter Olympics Online — The 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver tonight, and for those of you who can't be tied to your TV every night to watch the opening and closing ceremonies and competitions, here's a compilation of sites where you can not only …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple's top 10 issues: AT&T, the App Store, and ... computers? — John Gruber, author of popular Apple-focused blog Daring Fireball, just finished his presentation at the MacWorld conference in San Francisco, where he walked through what he sees as Apple's top 10 issues.
Daily Mobile:
Pictures: Samsung S8500 “Wave” - Leaked Photos — Here are some high quality pictures of the Samsung S8500 aka Wave, the first phone with the Bada operative system from Samsung. — Samsung Wave specs: — 3.3"amoled screen — 5mpix autofocus, flash — 720p video — 2gb internal memory
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Looking for a Date? A Site Suggests You Check the Data — Looking for love on an online dating service? — If you're a man, don't smile in your profile picture, and don't look into the camera. If you're a woman, skip photos that focus on your physical assets and pick one that shows …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Cyber attacks against Australia ‘will continue’ — An activist group that temporarily blocked access to key Australian government websites plans to continue its cyber attacks, the BBC has learned. — The group, known as Anonymous, was protesting against the Australian government's proposals …
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
eVouse concept mouse has nothing to do with Valentine's Day — We're not going to lie, it was a major let down when we found out that this glowing V-shaped mouse with faux Microsoft branding is nothing more than a splendiferous concept, but we're holding back the tears as best we can.
Chris Vallance / BBC:
Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’ — Wikileaks has provoked the dream of Iceland becoming a haven for whistle-blowing — Iceland could become a “journalism haven” if a proposal put forward by some Icelandic MPs aided by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks succeeds.
Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On Buzz — Reece asked me in the comments the other day what I thought about Buzz. I told him I hadn't had the time to turn it on and play with it. I did that later in the day and have been using Buzz for a couple days. So here goes Reece. — I'll state right up front …
Shelly Banjo / Digits:
Obama Is Hiring a Twitterer — Calling all job-seekers: President Barack Obama is looking for an official Twitterer. … The Democratic National Committee's “social networks manager” job description says the position entails maintaining the President's accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
