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Interesting Information

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Here's some interesting information that we have read and felt that it should be shared. Warning some of this information is not computer or business related but it is all clean.

Recreational Surfing at Work
Twenty minutes of recreational surfing today can cost a company $8,000 per week per 100 employees. The problems can consist of:
-valuable bandwidth being compromised,
-security risks or virus entry via web to company network,
-offensive material,
-sometimes illegal entering and exiting a company's network,
-loss of employee productivity

More than 84% of employees admit to sending personal e-mails on company time. Confidentiality leaks and virus attacks cost billions in clean-up, recouping information leaks and lost customers.

E-mail
According to Return Path and Global Name Registry, 31% of E-mail address change annually.
-43% of changes are due to ISP changes
-16% of changes are to avoid spam
-12% of changes are because of a new physical address
- 8% of changes are to get a more attractive address

Jupiter Communications reports the following breakdown on current E-mail volume.
-34% is E-mail from friends and family
-17% is wanted E-mails from companies
- 8% is work or school related messages
- 6% miscellaneous
- 35% is unwanted E-mail (i.e. spam)

The Speed of Mind
The conscious mind has been found to process information within a range of 20-50 bits/second with an average of about 30 bits per second. Human speech is transmitted at 10,000 bits per second, a TV channel at 10 million bits per second.

The unconscious mind has been estimated to process information at a rate of 10 trillion bits per second.

Internet Facts
Here are some quick general and Canadian specific Internet facts

• There are over 6 billion web pages available on the Internet (Cyveillance, May 2003)
• 7.3 million unique pages are added to the Internet every day (Cyveillance, Sizing the Internet, July 2000)
• More than 320 million searches are made through search engines and directories each day (Cyveillance, 2003)
• Google alone had over 55 billion searches during 2002 (SearchEngineWatch.com, Feb 2003)
• every week 14 million Canadians go online looking for products, services and information (Statistics Canada)
• An estimated 2.2 million households, shopping online in 2001 spend approximatelyu $2-billion (Statistics Canada)
• 26% of all private sector enterprises in Canada have a website, yet a mere 6% use the Internet to sell goods and services (Statistics Canada)