Google’s Gmail to try to challenge Facebook (USA Today)

Search giant Google is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook.

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iPad’s Best Innovation? No-Contract Wireless (PC World)

PC World – Apple’s iPad, while getting slammed for lack of innovation in some areas, does something no other device seems to have done before: Offer customers 3G service on a month-to-month, no-contract basis. It’s about time.

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Blogging down among teens; Twitter never was up (Detroit Free Press)

A new report paints a picture of how teens and young adults are using social media these days. Teens are eating up Facebook but are not so keen on Twitter, and they are not blogging as much as they used to, according to the Pew Internet Project’s report.

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Twins learnsof brother’s death on Facebook (New York Post)

When Angela and Maryanne Vourlis woke up Sunday, their 20th birthday, they logged on to Facebook expecting to read well wishes and greetings from friends. Horrifically, the twins were confronted with the devastating news their brother Bobby, 17, had been killed in a triple-fatal accident. He and two friends died…

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Super Bowl 44 LIVE: Colts vs. Saints Twitter Coverage (The Huffington Post)

Super Bowl 44 — Colts vs. Saints — is here! Follow the action LIVE with Twitter lists.

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Three in East Brunswick charged after cops link graffiti to MySpace pages (MyCentralJersey.com)

EAST BRUNSWICK — Two East Brunswick men and one juvenile were arrested for spray painting graffiti on two community buildings last month after detectives linked the images to postings on their MySpace pages, police said.
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Facebook gets more Bing (Straits Times)

SAN FRANCISCO – MICROSOFT said on Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook’s 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the social-networking service. Bing had previously powered online searches on US Facebook pages.

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Internet imposters have celebrities in a twitter (The New Zealand Herald)

Kiwi celebrities are being targeted by social networking frauds, who are forging Twitter and Facebook accounts in their names.

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Never Shout Never Myspace Premiere on Tuesday (antiMUSIC)

A top story from this week. Never Shout Never will premiere their brand-new video, “I Love You 5,” on MySpace on February 2nd, 2010.
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Facebook removes Microsoft banner ads from site (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world’s No. 1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business.

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