TECHNOLOGY HAPPENING

***Only 1% of the music on iPods is filled with songs downloaded from iTunes.
On average, only 24 songs on each iPod are paid for directly. The rest are either illegally downloaded or ripped from CDs.

***Apple sold 14 million iPods in the fourth quarter of 2005 - the equivalent of more than 100 iPods a minute for 3 months straight, day and night!
In all, Apple has sold 42 million iPods to date. And Apple's stock has more than doubled in the past 6 months!

***For the first time since 1996, TV sales in 2006 outpaced PC sales, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
TV revenues generated $20 billion in sales, whereas PC revenue generated $19 billion in 2006. The main reason for this shift is the emergence of HDTV.

***Matthew Nagle can control his TV and computer just by thinking!
After a knife attack in 2001, Matthew became paralyzed from the neck down. However, he received a brain implant consisting of 100 electrodes implanted a millimeter deep in the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement.
Now, he can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home.

***Merriam-Webster lists "google" as a transitive verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web." The Oxford English Dictionary also added it as a verb last month. The trademarks Band-Aid, Kleenex, Rollerblade and Xerox have all followed a similar path