While you may have a limited choice of cell phone carriers in your neighborhood, there are many popular cell network operators in the Americas that you may have never heard of before. None of the four major players in the US cell phone carrier market have a massive reach outside the US, but Burmuda-based Digicel has spread itself to dozens of countries and is the most prolific cell phone carrier of the Americas.
BP originally estimated that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill would be contained with robotic submarines, however early attempts to contain the oil spill failed. Now BP and the Obama administration are left with an ever-worsening environmental catastrophe and a spiralling clean-up bill that runs into billions of dollars.
Here’s an awesome infographic which reveals everything you need to know about the latest micro blogging trend – Twitter.
This year’s Mother’s Day economy is expected to be worth nearly $15 Billion, signaling a 4% increase from last year’s spending for the holiday. The graphic above illustrates how this spending will be comprised–where it’s coming from and also what types of gifts are being purchased.
Cloud computing represents a shift from mainframe to client–server environments to a delivery model for IT services based on the Internet. You’re probably already in the cloud right now since SaaS applications (Gmail, VMWare, etc) are all leveraged via cloud computing.
On Sunday, May 9, 2010, most American’s will honor their mothers. There are many ways to tell mom thanks, but most people do it with flowers, making Mother’s Day a very important day for the floral industry. In the US, the day ranks as the second highest gift-giving holiday, the busiest day of the year for many restaurants and a peak day for long distance calling. Here’s a look at Mother’s Day by the numbers.
In the United States, over 20% of our total energy consumption is residential. In fact, in the United States, we are the 7th largest per capita consumer of residential energy. Where is all of that energy going? Are you living with a "gas-guzzler"? Explore the application below to understand more about how we consume energy in our homes. Blue stars indicate ENERGY STAR models are available. Click on the green stars to find out how quickly an ENERGY STAR appliance can pay for itself.
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