LJ Index

  1. Number of billionaires in the world: 946
  2. Number of billionaires in India: 36
  3. Indian billionaire gain over the prior year: 12
  4. Positiion of India among counries with billionaires: 1
  5. Number of billionaires in Japan: 24
  6. Position of Bangalore among number of "Linux " queries on Google: 1
  7. Position of Tokyo among number of "Linux" queries on Google: 2
  8. Number of Western Hemisphere locations among the top ten sources of queries for "Linux" on Google: 0
  9. Number of U.S. locations among the top ten sources of queries for "Microsoft" on Google: 7
  10. Millions of internet radio listeners per month in 2005: 45
  11. Millions of internet radio listeners per month in 2006: 72
  12. Dollars (U.S.) paid per-listener/per-"performance" (recording) by U.S. commercial webcasters between 2002-2005: .0007
  13. Same obligation as above for noncommecial webcasters between 2002-2005: .0002
  14. Dollars (U.S.) to be paid per-listener/per-"performance" (recording) by all U.S. webcasters (commercial and noncommercial) retroactively for 2006: .0008
  15. Dollars (U.S.) paid per-listener/per-"performance" (recording) by all U.S. webcasters for 2007 - $.0011 per performance
  16. Same rates for 2008: .0014
  17. Same rates for 2009: .0018
  18. Same rates for 2010: .0019 per performance
  19. Position of Linux-based Radio Paradise as "most successful in its class" of Internet radio stations: 1
  20. Royalty obligations of the above as a percentage of Radio Pardise's current total income: 125

Sources: 1-5, Forbes, CNN; 6-9, Google; 10-11, Radio and Internet Newsletter; 12-13, Librarian of Congress in 2002; 14-18, Copyright Royalty Board in 2007; 19-20, KurtHanson.com.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/03/09/india.wealth.ap/

http://trends.google.com

http://www.j-lab.org/fordstudy_pr.shtml, http://www.kcnn.org/research/citizen_media_report/

http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html

http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml

http://www.loc.gov/crb/proceedings/2005-1/rates-terms2005-1.pdf

http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml