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Week in Numbers: McKinnon case rolls on

Huge losses for Sony Ericsson, huge acquisition attempts by Broadcom, and big contracts for BT.

By Richard Goodwin, 18 Jul 2009 at 09:04

This week in the world of IT, we saw developments in the McKinnon case, scrutiny for the government’s E-Crime Unit - and more.

22 - The total number of people arrested through investigations initiated by the government’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s (SOCA) E-Crime Unit - although, they do a lot more than just make arrests, according to the Home Secretary.

30 - The number of security patches released by Oracle this week as part of its quarterly update.

70 - The potential number of years UK hacker Gary McKinnon is rumoured to face in prison if extradited to the US.

100 - Alcatel-Lucent announced this week that it will be releasing new cards next year that will increase the speed of its 10Gb routers and switches to a whooping 100Gb.

£99 million - The value of the contract acquired this week by BT to provide support to military communications.

£243 million - Sony Ericsson posted losses of £243 million this week, a 43 per cent drop in handset shipments.

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