Ecommerce will spur a 12 percent drop in catalog-paper production by 2003 (Boston Consulting Group) ... Nearly half of all Web users in the US will have a personal homepage by spring (The NPD Group) ... At the end of 1999, 48.2 percent of American households owned equities, up from 19 percent in 1985 (Boston Research Group) ... One in eight US home sales in 1999 were paid for in cash (Acxiom/DataQuick) ... 11 percent of the 5.1 million online traders in the US are 25 or younger (Gomez Advisors) ... Net users worldwide waited more than 2.5 billion hours last year for pages to load (Nortel Networks) ... 24 million computers were thrown out in 1999 (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition) ... Nearly 43 percent of US workers plan to leave their current jobs within the next six months (Vault.com) ... 23 million US households use instant messaging (Media Metrix) ... The number of home networks in the US will grow from 650,000 today to 10 million in three years (Yankee Group) ... 600 million PCs will be in use globally in 2003; the number of network-enabled devices will pass 2 billion (International Data Corporation) ... 5 percent of all calls in 1998 came from wireless phones; in five years, the figure will hit 25 percent (Insight Research Corporation) ... 27 percent of full-time workers skip lunch (National Restaurant Association)
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