Hello friends....
Today i am here with some true and interesting facts about WEB and TECHNOLOGY...
Have a look at this...
1. Email and Spam facts :
- Do you know 60 billions emails are sent everyday in which 97% of are Spam.
- Out of every 1,000 computers, 9 computers are infected with Spam.
- Spammer get only 1 response to every 12 million emails he send (yet it still makes them a small profit).
2. About Social Media :
- There is a twitterer called “twillionaire” with a million or more followers.
- Facebook has 500 million registered users… and still about 100 million less than QQ (a Chinese social media portal)
- There are About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
- Every minute 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded on YouTube.
- Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.
3. Gadgets & Technology:
- The first public cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973.
- The first cell phone sold in US called Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.
- There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.
- In 2004 the first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A appeared .
4. Search Engines, Internet and Energy:
- Amazon now sells more e-books than printed books.
- About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
- Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.
- 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.
5. Information Technology:
- In 1981, IBM started the PC revolution with the introduction of the IBM 5150, a compact personal computer that smoked mainframe processing and came at a price tag of under $1,600.
- IBM invests $6 billion a year on research.
- Microsoft was originally named Micro-Soft. They dropped the dash in 1976.
- Microsoft total revenue in its 1st year: $16,000
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