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Apple has sold 55 million iPads since it was launched in 2010.
Apple paid 1 million dollars for iPhone.com in 2007 and 4.5 million dollars for iCloud.com in 2011.
Around 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices were sold in the first 3 days after its availability.
Over 1 million iPhone 3GS devices were sold in the first week after its availability.
There are over 300,000 iPhone applications available in the Apple shop, and there were over 7 billion downloads as of May 2011.
Apple spent at least 150 million dollars to build iPhone, and filed over 200 iPhone patent applications in the U.S alone.
The number of telephone subscribers in China is 863,000,000 (as of 2/2011), 771,181,357 (as of 1/2011) in India, 292,847,098 (as of 6/2010) in the U.S., 213,900,000 (as of 6/2010) and 205,100,000 (as of 1/2011) in Brazil.
As of July 2010, there were over 5 billion mobile phone connections worldwide.
In a complaint filed in December 2009, Nokia asked the International Trade Commission to bar the importation of Apple devices that infringe Nokia patents. These include iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPod Classic portable music players, as well as the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Mac Book, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air computers. On 3/25/2011 Apple won a round in its patent fight with Nokia; a trade panel judge ruled that the U.S. company did not violate any of five Nokia patents.
Cisco predicted that 66% of world’s mobile traffic will be Video by 2014. Middle East & Africa will have highest growth in mobile traffic (CAGR 133%), followed by Asia-Pacific (119%) & North America ( 117%).
Smartphone sales is going to surpass worldwide PC sales in 2011
In July 2010, the number of mobile service subscribers in Hong Kong was boosted to 13.02 million, representing one of the highest penetration rates in the world at about 184 per cent. Among these 13.02 million subscribers, 4.64 million were 3G/3.5G service customers.
In August 2009, 276.9 million people used email across the US, several European countries, Australia and Brazil.
In 2009, 57% of Americans watched TV and surfed the Internet simultaneously.
In 2009, top-five best-selling smartphones is: RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models), Apple iPhone 3G (all models), RIM BlackBerry Storm, RIM BlackBerry Pearl (all models, except flip), and T-Mobile G1.
58% of Americans have a mobile phone with Web connectivity; 21% own a smartphone, 8% own an iPhone(TM), and 29% own another type of Web-enabled phone.
30% of iPhone 3G buyers switched to AT&T from other carriers in 2008.
Prepaid calling cards are a low cost solution to making international long distance phone calls.
In 1999, new fiber cables were being installed at a rate of 2800 miles per hour.
1900 - First coin telephone installed.
1951 - First long distance phone call without directory assistance.
1968 - First 911 system was introduced in the United States.
1971 - First commercially viable answering machine.
1985 - Cellular car phones introduced.
1988 - Auto-Dialing phone cards introduced.

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