Since yes, they have read well. As Kings’ gift, I have just found out (thanks to Manuel Pereira González) that Fabrice Bellard established on December 31 a new computing record of decimal of the number π dejándlo in, not any more not less, 2699999990000 decimal ones in base 10 (2242301460000 in hexadecmal). And the best thing of everything is that it has not used big computers, but one of dessert, an Intel Core i7 to 2.93 GHz, with 6 Gb of RAM and 7.5 TB of hard disk, which, evidently, can go so far as to cost concerning the 2000€.
The used algorimo is a version of the Formula of Ramanujan known as Algorithm of Chudnovsky:

For the intereados, the author has published with date January 4, the technical details of the calculation (PDF, 136Kb).
The previous record was in possession of Daisuke Takahashi, who calculated 2 ‘577 trillions of decimal of π