Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
IDC says Apple finished 2011 on top of the Smartphone world, here are the numbers  —  Analytics firm IDC just released a report covering the top five smartphone vendors by shipments and market share for Q4 2011.  Apple not surprisingly takes the top position.

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors  —  An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the ARM architecture.

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures  —  The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV.

Globe and Mail:
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV  —  Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television.  —  Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking  —  Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.

Steven Musil / CNET:
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private  —  Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening.  —  An e-mail exchange revealing …

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Third-gen iPad's ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains  —  Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous “window of opportunity,” in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase …

Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Those Millions on Facebook?  Some May Not Actually Visit  —  On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people.  The social networking site arrives at an even more astounding number …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year  —  Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupman.

Nathan Hurst / Gadget Lab:
Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey  —  The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV.  Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com  —  News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it's hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service  —  On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services.  Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings  —  Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee.  According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots …

Dan Levine / Reuters:
Oracle seeks new trial against SAP over downloads  —  (Reuters) - Oracle Corp will head to a retrial against SAP AG over copyright infringement allegations after a U.S. judge slashed a previous monetary award against SAP by over $1 billion.  —  In a court filing on Monday …

The Official Google Blog:
What's your X?  Amplifying technology moonshots  —  Last week, we ran an experiment.  We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world.  The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world's greatest problems.

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Google+ launches a developer page for its yet-to-exist developer ecosystem  —  One of the things that I'm not too fond of when it comes to the launch of Google+ thus far is the lack of a proper API for developers to create cool tools and uses for Google's social network.

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Facebook's Mobility Challenge  —  Lots of people love their cellphones.  Facebook, so far, is not a big fan.  —  Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission.  Although more than half …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google loses app refund appeal in Taiwan, still not selling apps there  —  Last June, the city of Taipei in Taiwan issued a complaint to several companies contending that they weren't in compliance with a local law that entitles users to a seven-day trial period, during which a user could request a refund.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Nicira Pulls The Curtains Back On Disruptive Network Virtualization Platform  —  The enterprise is moving towards simplicity, and this extends to the data center.  Nicira, a stealthy virtualization startup with backing from big-name investors …

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show  —  Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart.  Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency …

@twitter:
In the final three minutes of the Super Bowl tonight, there were an average of 10,000 Tweets per second.