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• Airline bookings represent only about 9 percent of all online reservations

• Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation changed this on September 14th, 1995

• Teens spend only about 42% as much time online as adult

Do you know the difference between a computer worm, virus and trojan horse?

Click here to read an in-depth and educational article from www.webopedia.com

With football season upon us, here’s a fun fact:

• The average fantasy football player spends an average of 1.19 hours per week working on their team, while at work. Companies lose about $45.22 in wages each week, per employee.

Example: If there are 5 employees within your company and they spend an hour each week on their fantasy football teams, after 17 weeks of play (not including playoffs), it would cost your company approximately $3,843.70 each season.

There are services available to restrict internet usage during high-peak times; March Madness, playoffs. If you are interested in learning more, please contact a Now IT Works representative.

• 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year

• Only 11% of PCs are recycled; the percentage for televisions and mainframes recycled is lower

• The United States generates more e-waste than any other country

(Source: www.learningpartnership.org)

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• Paper consumption continues to double every four years and, even in the USA, 95% of all information remains as paper with just 1% stored electronically

• Information overload is a particular problem for those who know English since this one language accounts for:
  • 60% of all radio broadcasts
  • 70% of addressed mail
  • 80% of data transfers
  • 85% of international telephone calls
• The modern living room contains more computing power than was used to land Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969 but, unlike the Apollo 11, there is no co-ordination

(Source: Roger Darlington-UK)

It is estimated that 70 percent of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.

(Source: www.randomfacts.org)

• It took the radio 38 years and the television a relatively shorter 13 years to do what took the World Wide Web only 4 years – reaching 50 million users.

• Approximately 365 million people in the world have personal computers while half of the world’s 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone. Wow!

• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

(Source: www.pc.com)

• The estimated number of emails sent per day, for the year 2008, is around 210 billion.

• At 183 billion messages per day, that means more than 2 million emails are sent every second!

• About 70% – 72% of these are thought to be spam and viruses.

Source: (www.About.com)

“IBM’s ASCI white supercomputer; the fastest computer in the world, weighs as much as 17 elephants and can do in one second what a calculator would take 10 million years to do.”

(Source: www.einstenyear.org)

Something to think about…

• “From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day.”
  

(Source: www.strangecosmos.com)