The five most frequent Google search terms from WAP phones are "wap," "sex," "chat," "nokia," and "gay" (Google) ... Three years after the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, gross domestic product is expanding 7.7 percent a year (Economist Intelligence Unit) ... More than 80 percent of material receipts at the average $4 billion firm are processed manually (Hackett Benchmarking & Research) ... 74 percent of managers and executives, and 50 percent of clerical and support staff, use their computers for personal use after work hours (Byte Back/Human-Ware) ... 17.8 percent of all stocks bought and sold in Q4 99 were traded online (Technology Investor) ... 63 percent of the world's smartcards are made by two French manufacturers, Schlumberger and Gemplus (The Nilson Report) ... Workers in the United States and Canada send and receive an average of 21 voicemail messages a day (Pitney Bowes) ... Intranet users will total 133 million worldwide by 2001 (International Data Corporation) ... 4 percent of American Net users have bought a new or used car or truck online (Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch)
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