Monday, November 17, 2008

Statistics that will blow your mind

Apple’s 2008 Fiscal Q4 was one of the best quarters in Apple’s history posting revenue of $7.9 billion and net profit of $1.14 billion. A total of 6,892,000 iPhones and 11,052,000 iPods were sold during the quarter…which is more iPhones than every previous quarter combined (6.1 million) and the most iPods ever sold in a non-holiday quarter.
www.technologyexpert.blogspot.com

August 26, 2008 Mark Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook announced they had hit a huge milestone: 100,000,000 people around the world are now using Facebook. www.facebook.com

Blogs allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it. There are over 175,000 new blogs every day and bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day…or over 18 updates a second. www.technoratimedia.com

A web server survey for October 2008 indicates that there are 182,226,259 websites online, which reflects growth of 948,000 over September 2008. www.newsnetcraft.com

Q. How many emails are transmitted daily around the world?
A. About 1.2 billion are sent from non-spam sources. If you count the spam/phishing ones, it’s about 75% more…or 2.1 billion daily. www.wikianswers.com

It is estimated that YouTube consumed as much bandwidth last year as the entire Internet in 2000; and that over 13 hours of video are uploaded every minute. In March of this year, bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately $1 million a day. In April of this year, there were more than 83 million videos on YouTube. www.wikipedia.org