2008: The year in numbers

$1bn
The value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone App store will achieve

Five million
The estimated number of iPhone 3Gs sold in the third quarter of the year.

One million
The number of ID cards the government expects to issue from next year

£275
The price, not including postage and package, of two '$100 laptops' under the Give One, Get One scheme

29 million
The number of people affected by government data loss

£29bn
The projected cost of a full UK fibre-to-the-home rollout

15
The number of petabytes of data the flow through the network supporting Cern

$31
The cash per share Microsoft initially offered to buyout Yahoo

$37
The amount per share Yahoo wanted for an acquisition

Around $13
Yahoo's current share price

4
The number of megabits of data that flows through the average UK broadband connection

7
The number Microsoft announced will be following the word Windows to make the name of its next OS

Seven hours and nine minutes
The times spent by the average Briton surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio per day

£57m
The amount a government shared services initiative was supposed to save the public purse...

£81m
...the amount it ended up costing the tax payer

22
The percentage of IT workers now earning under £25,000

2028
The year futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts will see global warming solved by nanotech