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Gartner's Internet of things


Johannesburg, 05 Sep 2012

Research house Gartner kicked off last week's symposium with a look at to what degree people are connected and how much data travels the Internet every month.

The theme behind this year's event was the nexus, which is where the forces of information, social, cloud and mobile converge.

Here are a few key global facts and figures:

1. There are 800 million smartphones
2. 1.5 billion PCs
3. Two billion people online
4. 3.5 billion mobile phones
5. Five billion Internet-connected devices
6. 87 billion Google searches every month
7. 28 quintillion exabytes of data travels over the Internet every month

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