30 000. The number of Los Angeles City employees that will benefit from Google’s new LA City email system.

$600 million (almost R4.7 billion). The planned cost of Russia’s space agency chief Anatoly Perminov for a new spaceship with a nuclear engine.

69 000. Vaio users affected by Sony’s recall of certain power adapters for this range of laptops.

$18 billion. NASA’s yearly budget.

13 billion years. A star exploded that long ago making it the most distant astronomical object observed.

10. Bonus tracks in DJ Hero that can be played with the Guitar Hero controller and mixed beside DJ Hero tracks.

93 percent. Bigger screen for the Nintendo DSi LL over that of the current DS Lite.

About 6 minutes. Length of the test flight of the Ares I-X rocket, the future replacement of the Space Shuttle.

100. The number of cores that the top Tilera TILE-Gx microprocessor has.

540 000. PS3 consoles sold in Australia since its launch in March 2007.

$US711 million (about R5,6 billion). Amount Sanford Wallace has to pay Facebook for getting into people’s accounts uninvited to send them spam.

98. The age at which Qian Xuesen, the father of China’s space technology program, died at last month.

Year end 2010. The date by which Nokia will shut down its N-Cage gaming platform.

October 26. The date on which your GeoCities files were deleted from Yahoo’s servers.

$489 (approx R3860). The price tag of the Kindle DX in the US.

50 Mhz. Difference in processing speeds between an iPhone 3GS and Motorola’s Droid.

50km. Of high-speed fibre-optic connections still need to be connected to the Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) in the Karoo. 

710 million. Mobile phone subscribers in China.