Technology Facts

• 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. 
• Spam generates 33 billion KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 
• 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. 
• Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit). 
• A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers. 
• There are some 1 billion computers in use. 
• There are some 2 billion TV sets in use. 
• There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day. 
• The first known cell phone virus, Cabir, appeared in 2004. 
• Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs. 
• Amazon sells more e-books than printed books. 
• Facebook has 500 million registered users, about 100 million less than QQ. 
• About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. 
• Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet). 
• One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle. 
• Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day. 
• The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year. 
• Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels. 
• The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper. 
• The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Kroloppand weighed 2 pounds. 
• About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related. 
• 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube. 
• People view 15 billion videos online every month. 
• On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each. 
• Flickr hosts some 3 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 10 billion.

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