Number crunching – what we’ve learnt this week……….

10 Billion – amount of songs downloaded from iTunes. Almost 2 for every person on the planet……

25 billion – amount in $ available to spend in Apple‘s “war chest”, as reported by Bloomberg

3.6 billion – loss made in £ by taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland last year

1.3 billion – amount in £ that will be paid to RBS staff in bonuses

20 billion - amount of taxpayer’s money in £ given to RBS in bank bailout

11.6 billion – profit made in £ by Barclays last year

2.7 billion – amount in £ that will be paid to Barclays staff in bonuses

o - amount of taxpayer’s money in £ given to Barclays in bank bailout

50 million – number of tweets made every day, according to Twitter’s analytics team. I still don’t get it………..

93 million – number of Americans that don’t have broadband internet access at home, according to the US Federal Communications Commission (PDF)

35 million - amount of netbooks predicted to be shipped last year by ABI Resarch in January, 2009

163 Million – number of “Smartbooks” predicted to be shipped in 2015, according to ABI Research – who needs netbooks, anyway?

9 million - amount of netbooks shipped by best-selling Acer in 2009, according to DigiTimes

20 – amount in % of netbooks sold in 2009 with Linux open source OS

39 - Number of countries the International Intellectual Property Alliance want placed on the “Special 301 Watchlist” – a list of countries the US government deems “anti-capitalist” – because they promote the use of open source software on computers

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