Week in Numbers: Twit bots

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This week in the world of IT, the government’s “unforgeable” ID card comes under scrutiny, Southampton University investments in a supercomputer, and the world’s largest internet payment service shuts down globally for an hour.

£4.89 - Orange this week unveiled its new credit crunch-busting mobile web offer. Priced at £4.89, and available to existing pay monthly and pay as you go customers, the offer will allow users 50Mb monthly allowance at 3.6Mbps, and is available on 18 month contract.

12 - The claimed number of minutes it took security researcher Adam Laurie to hack the government’s supposedly “unforgeable” UK ID card.

25 per cent - A report claimed 25 per cent of all tweets on Twitter are generated by bots - and Jonathan Ross makes an average 37.08 tweets a day.

40 - TalkTalk began testing its 40Mbps fibre broadband in London and Wales this week.

60 - PayPal, the world’s largest internet-based payment system, shut down globally this week for one hour. The 60 minute shut down, according to a spokesperson, was caused by “internal problems” - normal service was resumed by 3:30 the same day.

74 trillion - The University of Southampton invested £3 million into a supercomputer that is capable of doing 74 trillion computations a second this week.

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