Sweden remained the world's leading information economy last year, followed closely by Norway and Finland; the US slid from second to fourth place (IDC/World Times) ... Wind, which generates 0.5 percent of the world's electricity is the fastest-growing source of power; capacity has increased by more than 29 percent a year since 1995 (Electricity Journal) ... Brits spend less time at adult Web sites - an average of 36.7 minutes per month - than other Europeans (NetValue) ... 39 percent of large organizations worldwide have no plans to migrate applications from mainframe computers to smaller platforms (Cutter Consortium) ... Wearing a cell phone at your waist (instead of holding it to your ear) can double the density of radiation absorbed by your body, exceeding accepted safety levels (Microwave News) ... 9 percent of Americans with Net access claim they "don't use the Web" (Pitney Bowes/Institute for the Future) ... DVD player shipments will exceed 28 million in 2001, up from zero in 1996 (Cahners In-Stat Group) ... Top four misspelled search queries on Google during January 2001: inaguration, presidental, potatoe, and dictionnary (Google)
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