How many iPhones sold till now?

Apple’s target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008

No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74
Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5 million
Contribution of sales from Europe : 1 million

Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users

An overwhelming 90% or above of online adult population (18+ years of age) use email as their prime source of communication. Less than a quarter of Japanese prefer instant messaging, while in France it is the reverse. Just a quarter do not prefer IM for communication. Half the Canadian population prefers Social networking.

Source: Ofcom

Corporate Business Email usage

How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day?

Average number of emails sent per day : 38
Average number of emails received per day : 93
Emails with attachment : 18
Spam Emails : 17 (approx.)

Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007

As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that’s for 2008.

For 2007, here is the top ten list for Spams:

1. Penny stocks spam
2. Drug spam
3. Pornography
4. Replica watches
5. Loans
6. Phishing spam
7. Pirated software
8. Fake job ads
9. Dating site spam
10. Fake diplomas

How big is email advertising?

It’s big and attractive. This year (2007), $1.2 billion was spent on Email advertising, and is projected to grow to $2 billion by 2012.

However, advertising through opt-in lists may not be ever-attractive. While 25% of all email delivered is for opt-in email lists, 40 percent of unsubscriptions from opt-in lists are because of subscribers being sent too many offers.

Fastest Growing Internet Communications Service

Jaxtr claims it is the one in its recent press release. That means, Jaxtr is ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ when it comes to growth rate.

Six months ago, Jaxtr had 500,000 members.
Today, Jaxtr has over 5 million registered members

Which is the biggest email service?

Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time last year, but the overall standings are as follows:

1. Yahoo Mail - 262 million
2. Microsoft - 256 million
3. Gmail - 87 million

Global market for mobile messaging

Mobile messaging includes the following:

SMS
MMS
Mobile IM
Mobile e-mail

Global market for mobile messaging in 2007 is $73 billion. This is expected to grow to $100.7 billion by 2010.

Do I email or chat on IM?

What’s your age? If you are a teen, then like 50 percent of people your age, chat on IM. But if you are an adult, then like 75 percent of all adults, then you should email.