Here’s more fun with Super Bowl online statistics, this time courtesy of Yahoo, which reports receiving 50 percent more search requests for New England Patriots than for New York Giants.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has come up with more statistics for fans to argue about on Sunday while watching Super Bowl XLVI. It has determined that those rooting for the Patriots are more mobile savvy, but there are many factors worth betting a beer or two over.

As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare to do battle in Sunday's Super Bowl, new figures released by Nielsen and NM Incite indicate the two teams are in a virtual dead heat in terms of Internet buzz.

New research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that half of appropriately capable smartphone owners had scanned a QR code, and a fifth of those had gone on to make a purchase. It also pinpointed ways to improve those numbers.

Venture-backed companies in the U.S. netted more capital despite fewer exits during 2011, according to new figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. The year marked a 14 percent drop in deal activity but a 26 percent increase in capital raised, compared with 2010 figures.

BlueStacks is joining in the year-end retrospectives by defining the average Android user based on a light-hearted analysis of Nielsen data and poll results. The company obviously has a vested interest, since it enables Android applications to run on consumer and enterprise Windows machines, but it still turned up some useful information.

Any South Korean under 16 is now prohibited from playing online games between midnight and 6 a.m. The controversial Youth Protection Revision bill makes South Korea, the country with the fifth-highest penetration of broadband in the world, the first country to implement such a law.

Updating research from 18 months ago, PopCap Games found that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week, 71 percent more than the previous report. Out of everyone online in the U.S. and the U.K., 41 percent of them have played a social game during the previous three months.

Usenet still exists. It's underneath most people's radar, but that doesn't stop it from getting sued. In fact, News Service Europe, one of the world’s largest wholesale Usenet providers, has ceased operation last week following a court ruling that it knowingly facilitated copyright infringement.

Despite a slowdown in the primary mature markets, International Data Corp. reports that the worldwide smartphone market grew 42.6 percent in the third quarter of 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010, with Samsung now out in front as market leader.