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Home Electronics
Call the online community the little mouse that roared. Media hype notwithstanding, in January 1995 only 10 percent of America's 93 million households owned a modem. Not to worry - it often takes 10 to 20 years for new technologies to reach full maturity in the consumer market.
Counterfeit Notes
Security measures built into high-end color copiers have made it difficult for amateur counterfeiters to crank out funny money. But overseas, where fake US$100 bills are often used in the black market, counterfeiting continues to thrive. A redesigned $100 bill will be introduced next year. SOURCE: United States Secret Service
Recording Formats
Despite all the talk of a vinyl revival, the popularity of CDs continues to grow among domestic prerecorded music buyers. But nostalgia buffs and hypersensitive analog audiophiles can take comfort in the fact that vinyl LP shipments actually rose by 58 percent between 1993 and 1994. SOURCE: Recording Industry Association of America
Overnight Shipping
Americans sent almost 521 million document-sized packages by overnight express last year, but analysts estimate that roughly 40 percent of that market could disappear as more businesses go digital. That will leave the big industry players fighting for the last pieces of a shrinking pie. SOURCE: The Colography Group Inc.
Edited by Todd Lappin
