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The Xbox360 has more computing power than the computers in the Space Shuttle.

(source huntsville times / toms guide.com)

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Worldwide tablet users will exceed 1billion in 2015 with 1/3 of them in just china! 

Source Emarketeer.

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By 2017 on average everyone will own 5 internet connected devices each. 

(source CISCO/Business Insider)

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By the age of ten - 73% of children in the UK have a mobile phone compared to 31% in the US.

Source mail online

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Apple sold 10million Iphone6 smartphones in the first 3 days alone! 

source patentlyapple.com

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Online video ad revenues are expected to grow at 19.5% in 2015 and 2016 - versus 3% growth for standard display making it a $5billion market by 2016. (source business insider)

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AOL is the worlds oldest internet company having been born back in May 1985 - the same year the internet was born! 

source Wikipedia

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There are at least 22 fake apple stores operating in China at present. (source cracked.com)

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Bitcoin mining is now an accepted profession, with some claiming to earn millions from this virtual industry each year. (source wikipedia)

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By May 2014, the value of Twitter had fallen by around 23% or nearly $8Billion since its IPO in 2013 as demand cools rapidly for stock in the still unprofitable social media giant. (source Mashable)

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The IEEE (institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) estimates that there are around 6.5million robots currently in the world today. (source IEEE & Wiki Answers)

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According to a recent article in the daily telegraph,  window surfing now represents a major security risk for banking. Quite simply it refers to the practice of criminals looking through bank windows to steal sensitive information & passwords on employees screens. (source dailytelegraph.co.uk)

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Twitter passwords are now considered more valuable than credit card details to cyber criminals. Credit card ID's have called to as low as $2 each, whilst twitter ID's can range from $16-$325 each according to a recent study.(source Juniper Networks)

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The Apple 1 computer was released 30 years ago today (11/ 04/2014). The rest as they say is History.(source Wikipedia)

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France has just introduced a law prohibiting the use of work email after 6pm in the evening.(source BBC news)

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The decline in PC sales continued in 2013 with a 10% fall back to 2009 levels. Conversely Tablet sales grew 54% in the same period. (source Gartner)

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The Apollo moon missions had to make do with less computing power than an average washing machine today has, which is certainly more than R2D2 who was wholly analogue powered by actor Kenny Baker. (source WIkipedia / Guardian.co.uk)