Mat Smith / Engadget:
Belle update arrives for compatible Nokia Symbian phones (video)  —  The latest reformation of Symbian has started to appear for compatible handsets — and it's arrived a few days earlier than planned.  MyNokiaBlog has already began the upgrade process on its N8, through the Nokia Suite software.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
MeetingBurner Debuts Sleek, Webinar Platform To Rival WebEx  —  Because I live in Chicago, I tend to conduct a lot of demos and meetings with startups and companies over webinar products like GoToMeeting or WebEx.  While they get the job done for the most part, the UI is clunky and slow.

Jonathan Allen / Search Engine Watch:
Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday Marks First Google Doodle as Promotional Vehicle  —  Google's latest Doodle marks the 200th Birthday of british novelist Charles Dickens but also marks the first time that the company has used their logo change to specifically promote a product or service.

Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 demoed, Bridge 2.0 gives remote control  —  RIM has demoed some of the updates coming to PlayBook 2.0, which is scheduled to arrive on your PlayBook in February, at the BlackBerry DevCon Europe event in Amsterdam.  —  Along with headline features like Runtime for Android …

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Picture Dims for Japanese Electronics  —  Over a span of three days last week, a trifecta of Japan's most-celebrated electronics companies—Sony Corp., Sharp Corp. and Panasonic Corp.—gave up hope for an annual profit, projecting combined losses of nearly $17 billion for the March-ending fiscal year.

Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook may release its core C++ library this year  —  Summary: Facebook is looking to open source some of its core C++ library code, according to one of the company's research engineers.  Other than sometime in 2012, exact timing is unknown.  —  Facebook is considering open sourcing at least some of its C++ libraries.

Lynn La / CNET:
Samsung reduces its LTE chip cost by half  —  For every new iteration of mobile phones, it's easy to assume that products are getting pricier because the insides are getting just as expensive.  —  A sample picture of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' baseband chip.

Christopher MacManus / CNET:
PlayStation Network renamed Sony Entertainment Network  —  Starting tomorrow, PS3 and Vita owners will sign into a rebranded online service. more  —  News Christopher MacManus 32 minutes ago  — Netflix gets competition with Verizon-Redbox deal  —  Watch out, Netflix.

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer  —  Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Canonical after the upcoming 12.04 release.

Jacob Schulman / The Verge:
Adobe Creative Cloud to be priced at $49.99 monthly, includes Creative Suite 6 and Lightroom 4  —  Later in the first half of 2012, Adobe will introduce Creative Cloud, an end-to-end service offering that will grant users access to its upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps and provide ancillary services starting …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple in early discussions to open stores inside of Sam's Club locations  —  Apple and Walmart subsidiary Sam's Club are in early discussions to widen their already existing partnership.  Sam's Club currently sells Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod lines within its large retail chain …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal  —  Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from — exactly when ads are most effective.  That's why I find today's VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawal titled “Yelp advertising …

Tom Kaneshige / PC World:
IPad 3: Predictions and Challenges From iFixit  —  Kyle Wiens of iFixit, a Web site that provides free repair manuals and advice forums, has been a reliable prognosticator of everything Apple.  With the next iPad expected to come out in March, Wiens recently gazed into his crystal ball.

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month  —  The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month.  The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch is set to complete on February 20.

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Those Millions On Facebook?  They Actually Visit, And It's Not A Huge Deal Anyway.  —  Traffic numbers provided by companies should always be questioned — I mean, of course each company is going to try to present the data in a way that makes them look as good as possible.