The United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything.

100,000 new blogs launched every day.

The average American gets 4,000 spam emails every day and is exposed to 5,000 marketing messages a day.

Spam accounts for 93% to 95% of all email.

Bill Gates receives 4 million pieces of spam each day.

Between 40 and 60 million Americans have swapped music files over the Internet.

Apple’s iTunes music store sells 1.8 million songs a day.

Visa handles 3,000 credit and debit card transactions every second.

40 million Americans have logged onto an online dating site.

Only 5% of the world's adult population is an active Internet user.

51% of US Internet users are women.

65% of US Internet users have shopped online.

The average American spends 24 minutes reading per day.

The average American watches over 4 hours of television and listens to over 3 hours of radio per day.

Approximately one language becomes extinct every day.

Over one billion people around the world survive on less than $1 per day.

A new Web site is launched every 3 minutes.

70% of U.S. physicians have Internet access in their offices. Half of those with Internet access use the Internet at least once a day.

Five new computer viruses appear every day.

One species becomes extinct every 15 minutes.

A new McDonald's franchise opens every four hours.

98% of American homes have at least one television set.

The average American sees 200,000 televised acts of violence by the age of 18.

There are 65 million handguns in America.

There are 27 million slaves in the world.

America spends $10 billion on pornography every year — the same amount it spends on foreign aid.

Americans spend an average of 9 minutes per day waiting for Web pages to download.

137 million aspirin tablets are taken worldwide every day.

61,000 people airborne over the USA at any given time.

42% of Americans owned a computer.

The Internet contained three terabytes of information (about 5,000 CD ROMs).

More than 200 online auction sites had sold more than $1 billion worth of goods.

Ticketmaster sold 680,000 tickets ($10 million in sales) online in the second quarter of 1998.

42% of Americans owned a computer in 1998, up 15% from 1997.

54,000,000 cars were sold worldwide, compared with 4,000 in 1900.

The Soviet empire was broken into 15 separate states.

There were 2.3 TVs per household.

20% of the U.S. was connected to the Internet.

The daily volume of online trades grew by 35% in first quarter of 1999, while total stock market trading volume was up just 4.9%.

One in ten home Internet users shopped online the week of December 6, 1999, spending a total of $900 million.

In June 1999, there were 800 million Web pages, only 16% of which were indexed by the most robust search engine.

62% of Americans planned trips online in 1999, compared with 48% in 1998.

Wireless users sent 3 billion messages a month.

Amazon.com ordered 181 acres of holiday wrapping paper and 2,494 miles of red ribbon in anticipation of Christmas 1999.

Venture-backed investments in the second quarter of 1999 reached a record level of $7.7 billion.

A billion Web pages.

The Internet economy grew by 62 percent (to $524 billion) in 1999, with 650,000 new jobs created,bringing the total number of people employed in the industry to 2.5 million.

Fourth quarter worldwide e-commerce revenue topped $10.53 billion.

2000

Telecom companies ramped up investment in wireless Internet technologies — expected to top $300 billion over four years.

The number of people using Napster grew from just over 1 million in February to amost 5 million in July — a 345% increase in five months.

Consumers bought $6.3 billion in online airline tickets, up from $3.5 billion in 1999.

Mobil phones outnumber PCs. 400 million mobile phones around the world.

840,000 businesses worldwide on the Internet.

22 Dotcoms advertise during the Superbowl.

A quarter of the world's 1.2 billion telephone subscribers have mobile phones.

92% of Internet users doing some degree of shopping online.

Business-to-business Internet commerce hits $135 billion.

One-third of companies have e-business channels accounting for 20% or more of their revenue.

44% of US adults buy goods or services over the Internet.

16 million refugees around the world.

11 million Americans download music for free over the Internet.

Over 80% of the population had a VCR in the home.

71% of business buyers and sellers used online marketplaces.

50% of all Americans used email.

Half of European marketers engaged in online marketing as part of their marketing strategy,

Computer games a $14 billion industry.

40 million US teens represent a $160 billion market.

The IT market produced sales of $59.8 billion.

2.54 million PDA units shipped in Q3, a 9.5% decrease from Q2.

One million lawyers in the United States.

Two million jobs lost in the United States, almost three times the number of layoffs in 1999.

Over one billion mobile phone subscribers globally.

Spam accounts for two-thirds of email traffic.

Stock market investors lost $4.5 trillion since 2000.

75% of businesses online.

75% of middle school and high school students have Internet access.

Half of development managers at large corporations developing applications for wireless devices.

DVD sales overtake video.

30 second Super Bowl TV commercial costs $2.06 million.

Two dotcoms advertise during the Superbowl.

IT spending in Asia-Pacific region grew from 10% to 12%, Western Europe will follow, with about 6% to 7% growth over last year. IT spending in the United States is expected to be between 4% and 6% above last year's level.

Over 15 million land mines in Afghanistan.

US poductivity increases at the fastest rate in 50 years.

606 million online around the world.

62% of U.S. households have computers, up from 8% in 1984.

183 million online in the U.S.

One billion digital wireless phones worldwide.

One in three households in Europe accessing the Internet.

Spam surges 300%.

123 million thongs sold in the U.S.

In January, the Slammer worm infects nearly 75,000 servers in 10 minutes.

In the first half of 2003, Americans spent $214 million on personals and dating sites— almost triple what they spent in all of 2001.

The SobigF. virus attaches itself to 1 in every 17 email messages.

30 million households banking online.

Viruses and other digital infections cost $82 billion in lost productivity and cleanup worldwide.

Global mobile subscribers top one billion — or one in six of the world's population.

One-fourth of all U.S. business-to-business purchasing done online.

61.5 million Americans access wireless data.

More than 22 million US Internet users visited an online tax services Web site during February 2003.

Revenues from e-commerce in Latin America grow five-fold to $15 billion by 2003 from $3.2 billion in 2000.

67% of Internet users log on outside the United States.

More than 50 percent of Japanese adults online.

European consumer e-commerce grows from $5.6 billion in 1998 to $430 billion.

The market for e-commerce applications grows from $3.1 billion in 2000 to $14 billion.

28% of all internet revenue derived from pornography/adult sales.

The number of U.S. households with broadband Internet access jumps 41%.

Sales of mobile phone ring tones jumps 40% to $3.5 billion.

40 million teens in American, a $160 billion market.

Wireless users send 244 billion messages a month, up from 3 billion a month in 1999.

Mothers spend just under 17 hours online per week—four hours and 35 minutes longer than American teenagers.

One-quarter of Americans over 12 have downloaded music from the Internet.

The U.S. poverty rate rose to 12.7% of the population, the fourth consecutive annual increase. That's 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

The 600,000 tons of lead contained in the 315 million computers is obsolete.

600 million mobile Internet users.

E-marketplaces zoom from $54 billion in 2000 to $1.4 trillion.

Nearly $3 trillion in transactions migrates to electronic exchanges.

In Japan, consumer e-commerce grows twenty-fold from $3.2 billion in 1999 to $63.4 billion in 2004.

US Internet users spend $8.8 billion at online grocery stores.

The U.S. online market for pharmaceutical, health and beauty products grows from less than $250 million in 1999 to more than $18 billion.

Online pharmacies make $15 billion in sales.

22.8 million US households use Internet banking services.

Corporate e-learning market tops $23 billion, up from $2 billion at the end of 1999.

Web ad revenues hits a record $12.5 billion, up 30% from 2004.

Search engine advertising generates $5.1 billion, or 41% of 2005 Web ad revenues.

More than 50 million U.S. adults bank online, a jump of 47% since 2003.

15% of all homeowners went online to check mortgage rates.

Yahoo indexes 19 billion Websites.

One billion Internet users.

36% of US Internet users connect via broadband.

Five million people downloaded podcasts.

According to the Online Publishers Association, more than 90% of people between 18 and 54 turn to the internet first for product information.

Global revenues for wireless portals hits $42 billion.

70% of Internet users live outside the U.S.

E-Commerce tops $45 billion.

The market for personal assistant services and intelligent agents for mobile phones is $26 billion.

News Corp. buys MySpace.com for $583 million.

960 billion text messages sent worldwide.

U.S. population hits 300 million.

A migrant enters the U.S. every 31 seconds. A child is born every 7 seconds.

73% of Americans use the Web regularly.

77% of Internet users shop online.

The iTunes store video sales of TV shows top 50 million.

Google pays $1.65 billion for YouTube, which has 67 employees.

YouTube delivers more than 100 million video clips a day.

Brazilian soccer star Ronaldino "Touch of Gold" video viewed 1.9 million times in one month on YouTube.

The #1 YouTube video has been viewed more than 28 million times, #100 over 1.5 million times.

E-commerce accounts for 40% of US total economy.

24% of Internet users access video online at least once a week.

The market for video-on-demand hits $642 million.

84% of marketers plan to increase U.S. online ad budgets.

30 second Super Bowl TV commercial costs $2.5 million.

Zimbabwe inflation reaches 914%.

Half of all people on the planet live in urban centers.

Americans place $6 billion in online bets.

The average (American) city dweller is exposed to 5,000 ads per day, up from 2,000 per day 30 years ago. (NYT)

Virtual world Second Life has more than 1.9 million members, roughly the population of Houston.

The average return on every dollar spent on email marketing is $57.25. (DMA)

The iTunes store sells over 5 million songs a day, or 58 songs every second.

Spending for internet video advertising in the US hits $640 million.

Online retail sales expected to top $230 billion.

41 million corporate employees globally spend at least one day a week teleworking, and 100 million will work from home at least one day a month.

Apple sells over one million G3 iPhones in one weekend.

There will be only 3,000 world languages — 50% fewer than in the year 2000.

There will be more Web sites than people.

Email marketing spending will top $1.1 billion.

The online advertising market will grow to $18.9 billion.

Head up displays (HUDs) will present critical information on the windshield – allowing the drivers to keep their eyes on the road. Haptic systems will use drivers' sense of touch to issue warnings, even wake up drowsy drivers.