- Development cost in $billions of the Iridium satellite-based mobile phone system: 5
- Sale price, in $millions, of Iridium, after bankruptcy: $25
- Number of Iridium satellites that would have been force-burned back to Earth if the system hadn't been sold: 60
- Rejected sum in $billions offered to record companies by Napster for allowing copyrighted works to be exchanged on the service: 1
- Estimated $cost of streaming 90 minutes of music a day to one listener: 81
- Estimated same delivery $costs on a peer-to-peer subscriber basis: 15
- Percentage of time spent online "accounted for" by AOL-TimeWarner: 32.7
- Percentage of "at-home penetration" by AOL-Time Warner: 74.8
- Pageview percentage devoted to the 1000 most popular Web sites in June 2000: 53
- Pageview percentage devoted to the 1000 most popular Web sites in January 2001: 48
- PDA sales in millions in 2000: 9.39
- Projected PDA sales in millions in 2004: 33.7
- Approximate percentage of global PDA sales Sharp hopes to capture with its new Linux-based PDAs: 50
- Sharp's global sales goal in millions for the year ending 2002: 1
- Number of Java-based number of programs Sharp hopes to see running on its Linux-based PDA by October 2002: 10,000
- Sharp's estimate of the number of active programmers for the Linux PDA platform: 100,000
- Sharp's estimate of the number of microsoft PDA programmers: 50,000
Sources: 1-3, Hoovers; 4-6, ZDNet; 7-8, Mediametrix; 9-10, Industry Standard from Alexa Internet, March 2001; 11-12, Gartner Group; 13-17, CNET
Notes not for publication:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2688512,00.html
- http://us.mediametrix.com/press/releases/20010227.jsp
- http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16773,00.html
- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/mustread.html?pg=14
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html?tag=mn_hd (see 100k item, low in the list)
- http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010321/t000024534.html