* Typewriter is the only 10 letter word you can spell with the top row of keys on a keyboard
* Internal clock on the computer is actually controlled by a crystal that vibrates at the correct frequency.
* The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the world’s population.
* What does 50 G.B of storage really mean? It means we can stack 3 piles of single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower.
* An Amd 1400 chip running without a heat sink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
* IBM Blue Gene is the world’s fastest supercomputer powered by 65,536 dual-processor computer nodes and clocked a sustained performance of 280.6 trillion operations per second, or teraflops.
* Google has the most intriguing data center located in Dalles, Oregon. They house an estimated 500,000 servers around the world, spread across 25 locations that store and estimated 200 pet bytes.
* E-science II (EGEE-II) project is the world’s largest scientific grid computing project launched on September 2006. It processes 98,000 jobs a day, more than 1 million a month, juggling about 30,000 jobs concurrently, on average.
* More than 53 per cent of the IT firms in the Silicon Valley, USA outsource their operations abroad
* India gets over 50% IT jobs outsourced by Silicon Valley
* Every Rs. 1 spent by the IT-ITES sector translates into a total output of about Rs. 2 in the economy.
* The multiplier impact on employment is even more compelling; for every one job created in the IT-ITES sector, four additional jobs are created in the rest of the economy.
* IT industry directly employs nearly 2.3 million professionals and indirect employment is estimated to additional 8 million jobs
* Indian IT/ITES industry will continue the double digit growth in 2009 of 16%. The growth has been fuelled by increasing diversification in the geographic base and across industry verticals.
* IT is India’s largest employer in the private organized sector
* By 2015, Indian IT sector will double in revenue, double contribution to GDP and double employment generation
* India may have the largest number of IT professionals in the world by 2012 thanks to India being at the centre of the IT opportunity.
