PC World - The online video market continued to grow in December, as nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched 33.2 billion videos in the month alone, said comScore last week. When broken down, the numbers mean that 86.5 percent of total U.S. Internet users watched online videos and averaged 187 videos per user. The average length video watched was 4.1 minutes, up from 3.5 minutes in a report from last March.
PC World - Is Apple’s banning iPhone applications that would use location data for displaying advertising not as onerous as anything Microsoft tried–and mostly didn’t get away with?
AFP - US online payments company PayPal has temporarily suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local Indian banks.
AP - The chief executive of German software company SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, has resigned after his contract was not renewed and will be succeeded by two co-CEOs, the company said Sunday.
AP - The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week.
AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.
Reuters - When the Mexican Navy gunned down notorious Mexican drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva in December, tribute videos started popping up on YouTube almost immediately. They showed pictures of Beltran Leyva, aka “el Jefe de Jefes” (the Chief of Chiefs), with stacks of money, guns and bags of cocaine as the backdrop to catchy corridos (narrative ballads) exalting his life and times.
AP - Shares of Leap Wireless International Inc. took a hit Friday after a JPMorgan analyst downgraded the prepaid wireless service provider, saying a sale of the company would be “very challenging.”
NewsFactor - Location-finding applications that give iPhone users information about weather, restaurants or traffic are fine. But if they give information to third parties for targeted advertising, the deal is off.
PC World - Adobe Flash has become the overwhelming leader for online video streaming, but Apple’s recent announcement of the iPad has cast a shadow over Adobe’s technology and led many to wonder whether Flash is on its last legs. PCWorld editors Ed Albro, Jason Cross, Robert Strohmeyer, and Nick Mediati take a look at the facts surrounding Flash and HTML5. Is HTML5 almost ready for prime time, or is this just more posturing from Apple?