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[ebay]

And what is the purpouse of the thread?

Edited by Hayd93 (Forum Super Moderator): Thread closed due to a error with the thread. Please recreate another if you want to .

[Yoshimitsui]

Who are the biggest then?

[ebay]

Who are the biggest then?

Either you can't read or you miss read. It clearly says.

[Yoshimitsui]

Either you can't read or you miss read. It clearly says.

It wasant there before. He must have edited.

[Jordy]

Any chance of the statistics of Apple? They can't be too far behind.

[DaveTaylor]

Any chance of the statistics of Apple? They can't be too far behind.

They where quoted in Q1 of this year to be worth 4x Dell.

[-Sweex]

Main Computer Manufacturer's
Acer - Taiwan electronics manufacturer.
3rd Biggest in the world
Subsidiaries: Gateway, Inc., Packard Bell, eMachines
Founded: 1976
Employees: 6,500 (Approx 2005)

Dell - American e
2ndbiggest in the world
Subsidiaries: Alienware ASAP Software EqualLogic
Founded: 1984 as PC'S LIMITED
Employees: 95,000 (Approx 2005)

Hewlett-Packard - American
Largest in the world
Subsidiaries: Compaq - Merged with them, VoodooPC's
Founded: 1939 by Bill Hewlett and David Packard
Employees: 309,000 (To current date)

Toshiba - Japan
5th biggest in the world
Subsidiaries: None
Founded: 1939 through a merger
Employees: 190,700 (Approx 2007)

Lenovo [IBM]
4th biggest in the world
Subsidiaries: None
Founded: 1984
Employees: 19,000 (Approx 2006)


As you know, there is alot more companies, these are just the main ones.




If any has any things that i should add, post here please. You will have credit.
Also any other topics are appreciated

Apple - USA
Founded: 1967 as Apple Computer INC
Employees: around 17,000
Revenue: 24 billion
Status: Apple is currently running head to head with HP
Criticism: Apple has received criticism for not notifying users of system vulnerabilities until a fix is released. Making user vunerable to problems until a fix is released.
Apple has been accused of pressuring journalists to release their sources

Merge with first post please.

Edited by DaveTaylor// (Forum Moderator) Posts merged upon request.

[xxMATTGxx]

Lmao ^. Although at least the fixes are released in what? within hours or so. Anyway, some of this information is quite interesting.

[-Sweex]

The World Wide Web and The Internet
Many people use the these terms: Internet and The World Wide Web (Or Web). For the same use. However the two terms aer not synonymous.

Usage
There are about 450 million Internet 'Surfers' around the world. But not all are active, however 250 million surf the internet at once.

com 1316966
edu 1133502
gov 209345
mil 175961
net 150299
org 154578
us 37615
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total domains 3178266
this is not my grid. used with permission.
This gives an estimate of the Internet spread:

about 70% in North America
about 20% in Europe,
about 10% in the rest of the world.

According to net ratings these are the most popular websites.

1. MSN
2. Yahoo!
3. Microsoft
4. AOL
5. Google
6. BBC
7. Wanadoo
8. British Telecom
9. Amazon
10. Ask Jeeves

Anything to add, post.
MERGE WITH FIRST POST PLEASE