Simon Walker / AndroidSPIN:
HTC Scorpion Leaked.  Maybe 1.5Ghz Processor.  Android 2.2.  Is it real?  —  Is the HTC / Google Nexus one the king of the crop anymore?  —  Not if the following rumor has any validity.  —  More and more rumors appear everyday about new devices coming from HTC and this latest leaked build file looks …

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share  —  US mobile users are increasingly getting into text messaging, Internet browsing, and social networks as they continue to shift to more capable devices.  Additionally, Apple's and Google's share of the smartphone market is inching …

Zengestrom:
The Buzz is out  —  This morning Google switched on real time conversations on Gmail, mobile, and Google Profiles.  The product got the name Google Buzz.  —  As the former product manager and someone who made the decision to sell a startup and move his family halfway around the world to build said product …

Agence France Presse:
Baidu profit surges nearly 50 percent in fourth quarter  —  WASHINGTON — Chinese Web search giant Baidu, which stands to potentially benefit if Google pulls out of China, posted a nearly 50 percent increase in quarterly net profit on Tuesday on sharply higher revenue.

Russell Adams / Digits:
AP Stories Reappear on Google News  —  New articles from the Associated Press have quietly started rolling out on Google's news site in the past hour, ending a nearly seven-week absence stemming from contentious negotiations between the two parties. … The AP and Google have been negotiating …

Laurie Burkitt / Forbes:
Microsoft Seals Ad Deal With Interpublic  —  Madison Avenue deal adds fuel to Microsoft-Google rivalry.  —  Microsoft is getting cozier with Madison Avenue.  —  The software company is partnering with advertising holding company Interpublic Group in a deal that will make Microsoft …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz  —  “Busy people don't want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.  We've done that.  Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.”  - Microsoft statement on Google Buzz.

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Raiding the Android pantry: after Froyo comes ‘Gingerbread’  —  Anyone who's been following Google's codename saga for Android builds is probably 15 pounds heavier just from hearing the names themselves — Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, you get the idea.  Delectable dessert names …

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Yes, there's a Google Street View Snowmobile now  —  Iterating off the Street View car and the Street View “tricycle”, Google has built another contraption to record the physical world for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.  —  They'll be driving a Street View Snowmobile around the Games for maps.

Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo: We've Had Our Own Google Buzz For Over A Year (YHOO, GOOG)  —  Yahoo (YHOO) didn't wait for Google's (GOOG) press conference announc Google Buzz to end before sending us an email on Yahoo Updates — the Yahoo product that does almost exactly the same things, and has been around for over a year.

Louis Gray:
How Google Buzz Validates but Marginalizes FriendFeed  —  When FriendFeed debuted on the scene in late 2007, it was one of the simplest ways to aggregate all of my updates from the social outposts I have all over the Web, see friends' updates and have a discussion around their shared items.