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Top 50 Technological Facts
Some Interesting Technological Facts
- Software
trends - Mobile, Big data, Cloud, Dev Ops, UI
- Tech
trends - IoT(Internet of Things), Wearable Technology, Mobile payments,
Public Consumption, Online security, Augmented reality, Mobile sharing
economy, Flat design, Virtual reality, Translation in real time
- Strategic
tech trends - 3D Printing, Context rich systems, Smart machines, Agile
Methodology
- 68%
of funds lost as a result of a cyber-attack were declared unrecoverable
- The
most expensive computer virus of all times cause damage worth $38.5 billion!
is My Doom email virus
- Apple’s
Swift and Google’s go are going to be big going forward
- 33%
of email recipients open mail based on subject line alone.
- 2.5
billion GB (2.5 Exabytes) of data are created every day. That number
doubles every month.
- 82%
of mobile media consumption time is within apps and 18% is from mobile
browsers.
- IoT
(Internet of Things) will generate $14,400,000,000 of value over the next decade.
- 44%
Percentage of world population that has access to the internet
- There
are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile
phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush. Really? Phone more than toothbrush?
- 90%
of text messages are read within three minutes of being delivered.
- 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 tea kettle.
- The
average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, sent
250,000 emails, instant messages, and text messages, and has spent 10,000
hours on a mobile phone alone.
- Of
the 60 billion emails that are sent on a daily basis, 97 % are considered as
spam.
- There
are more than one million domain names that are registered online per
month.
- Couponing
is the greatest return on investment
- 32%
of Target customers access the company via the mobile web and 68% access
the company via their mobile app
- Facebook
and Google owned the top 5 apps in the US according to comScore.
- Mobile
app usage grew a stunning 76% in 2014. The biggest mobile app use growth
was in the categories of Lifestyle/Shopping (174%), Utilities/Productivity
(121%) and Messaging/Social Media (103%) according to Flurry Analytics.
- If
I’m not wrong. Your phone is the first and last thing you look every day.
- 60%
of mobile users expect a website to load in less than three seconds
- 62%
of people are more likely to engage with brands that integrate social
media content into their owned properties.
- 82%
of companies saved money when they moved to the cloud.
- 68%
of companies do not have a stated business intelligence/analytics
strategy.
- Facebook
stores, accesses and analyzes 30+ petabytes of user generated data.
- Decoding
the human genome originally took 10 years to process; now it can be achieved
in one week.
- YouTube's
content id system scans over 250 years of video every day.
- 73%
of business apps use pre-buying features like product research, price comparisons,
inventory checks and consumer reviews, as opposed to strictly purchasing.
- There
are no IT projects, only business projects.
- Growth
in world internet usage from 2000-2015 - 753%
- On
eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.
- The
ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for
contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community"
- You
probably correct autocorrect more than autocorrect corrects you
- The
Dvorak keyboard is known to be more efficient and 20 times faster than Querty.
- There
will be 40 times more devices than people on the internet in 2020.
- Social
media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.
- Of
the apps downloaded, 1 in 4 are abandoned after the initial use.
- By
2016, 36% of business data will be stored in the cloud.
- 61%
of all devices in the wearable tech market are activity or fitness
trackers (ABI Research)
- Google
translate can help you to translate text on photo
- A
single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an
answer.
- SaaS
applications will reach up to 67.4 billion, making it to be the largest
cloud service category this year.
- Hottest
skill on linked in 2014 that got people hired: statistical analysis and
ata mining
- Social
networks will earn $8.3 billion from advertising in 2015
- There
are over 39 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn
- Snapchat
was the fastest growing app in 2014
- Nearly
75% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile advertising
- Worldwide
Web was developed in Objective C programming language.
- Google
estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of
data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it
all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
- The
longest phone cable is a submarine cable called FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link around
the Globe). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and can
carry 600,000 calls at a time.
- The
man known as the Father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, invented
the digital circuit – the foundation of the magic that provides us all access
to the Internet today - during his master’s degree program, when he was
just 21 years old.
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