By 2003, one in eight US consumers will own a device that can burn downloaded audio and video onto CDs (Jupiter Communications) ... Worldwide sales of digital subscriber lines will jump from 350,000 today to 9.8 million by 2003, outselling cable modems two to one (Dataquest) ... Online retailing will generate $36 billion in revenue this year, a 250 percent increase over 1998 (Boston Consulting Group) ... One in 12 Americans is trying to start a new business (Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership) ... Five million US households booked travel on the Web last year; that number should top 26 million by 2003 (Forrester Research) ... One-third of Web shoppers wait only eight seconds for a page to load before clicking elsewhere, causing a loss of $4.4 billion in annual ecommerce sales (Zona Research) ... Online software purchases will reach $3.5 billion by year's end and $32.9 billion by 2003 (International Data Corporation) ... Some 64 percent of US firms have been targets of computer-virus attacks this year (InformationWeek) ... Online sales of health products will reach $1.7 billion by 2003, up from $10 million today (Jupiter Communications) ... The top 12 search engines together cover 42 percent of the Web's 800 million indexable pages (NEC Research) ... Linux will account for one-fourth of the server OS market in three years (Dataquest)
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