Americans have been texting like crazy. The number of text messages sent grew nearly three times to a level of ten messages per day per mobile subscriber. Total number of SMS sent in 2008 : 1 trillion Total number of SMS sent in 2007 : 363 billion

Netflix has been operational since 1999. It recently shipped the 2 billionth DVD to its customer. The DVD was of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Netflix has 58 distribution centers The library is over 10000 strong Of late, the shipments are at a rate of 2 million a day.

The following numbers are taken from the ‘State of the Internet’ report by Akamai technologies which can be downloaded here. It is India’s ranking in terms of the different parameters Number of Unique IP addresses per capita : 148 High broadband adoption : 62 High broadband penetration : 81 Broadband adoption : 93 Broadband penetration [...]