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Guinness World Record for Cisco router
News They're both world record holders. On Thursday, Cisco announced that Guinness World Records, an authority for record-breaking achievement around the world, has certified the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) as the highest capacity Internet...
[July 2, 2004, 9:05]
Mozilla eyes world record with Firefox 3
News Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads of an application in a day, on the release of its Firefox 3 web browser. There is currently no official Guinness World Record for the total number of downloads of an...
[May 29, 2008, 13:37]
Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record
News Having mobilised the worldwide open-source community behind the third version of its popular browser, the Firefox project was rewarded on Wednesday when Guinness World Records accepted that the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox on 'Download Day' in...
[July 3, 2008, 12:24]
LHC sets world record for particle acceleration
News The recently restarted Large Hadron Collider has become the world's most powerful particle accelerator, after setting a new record for beam intensity. Scientists working at the particle collider successfully accelerated a beam of protons up to 1.18...
[November 30, 2009, 15:01]
Akamai Helps MSN Deliver More Than 65 Million Video Streams Around the World for Record-Breaking Live Earth Event
White Papers While MSN had historical data from previous large-scale live events - such as LiveAID, the NCAA Final Four, and the FIFA World Cup - there was nothing to compare to the scale of this worldwide concert and it wasn't certain what to expect.
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
OQO goes for 'world' record
Blog However, the new model uses Intel's 1.86GHz Atom Z540 processor with 2GB of RAM, runs Vista Business or XP (Professional or Home) and has 'world-capable' mobile broadband in the shape of Qualcomm's Gobi module, which supports HSPA and CDMA2000 EV-DO.
[January 8, 2009, 10:33]
Swiss Car Breaks World Record for Energy Efficiency
White Papers Tribecraft AG wanted to develop a highly fuel-efficient vehicle for competition in the annual Shell Eco-Marathon. The company uses parallel development process using NX master model with all processes based on CAD models and NX system-level product...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
Firefox 3 downloads smash 5m mark
News Downloads of Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser have already passed the five million mark, approximately halfway through its 24-hour world-record attempt period. The Mozilla team had aimed to exceed the 1.6 million downloads that Firefox 2 achieved in...
[June 18, 2008, 12:00]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced that it has broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. That's the top end of the range IBM forecast and more...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
RiiffWorks T4
Downloads RiffWorks T4 free guitar recording and online collaboration software helps musicians record ideas at the moment of inspiration, create complete songs with drums and effects, collaborate online with musicians around the world for free, and cast...
[July 20, 2008, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not that they've been trying to hide it -- they monitor the peer-to-peer music-swapping world, and report back to the record companies what are the most popular files by the most popular artists. After all, how can the record companies see the...
[November 21, 2003, 15:05]
Firefox 3 reaches six percent market share
News Mozilla was aiming to set a Guinness world record for the total number of downloads of a piece of software in a 24-hour period. Writing in the Mozilla Project blog, the team noted they will need to be patient "as our judges and Guinness World...
[June 19, 2008, 12:06]
Apple wants music to be DRM-free
News In the letter, Jobs says Apple was forced to create a digital rights management (DRM) system to get the world's four largest record companies on board with the iTunes Store. In a rare open letter from chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday, Apple...
[February 7, 2007, 10:15]
Rio no longer home to pirates as world waits for June 30
News As the world awaits the June 30 decision of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, Diamond is making moves to pacify the record labels. That decision is expected to be definitive due to the large number of key industry figures round the table...
[April 27, 1999, 12:00]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News Fanning's return to the peer-to-peer world is one of the most ambitious of several ongoing attempts to bring about a detente between file-swapping networks and record labels, which have been at war almost since the day Napster launched in 1999.
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Firefox 3 gets a release date
News Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record on the release date for the most number of downloads of an application in a day. There is currently no official Guinness World Record for the total number of downloads of an application in one day...
[June 12, 2008, 13:43]
Copyright differences brew P2P clash
News A difference between American and European copyright law threatens to carve out a free-swapping zone for popular decades-old music, hampering record companies' antipiracy efforts online. And it also means new headaches for record companies trying...
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Net music - the courts played on
News The series of cases -- by no means over -- has served to tip the balance of power back to the side of the established record industry, helping to contain some of the digital forces that had threatened to undermine the big labels' fledgling Net...
[December 22, 2000, 9:04]
A billion internet users can be wrong
Leader Invented in 1991, it's taken exactly the same time for the web to spread from Tim Berners-Lee in his Geneva cubicle to a billion people worldwide as it has for Guns N' Roses to record a new studio album.
[January 26, 2009, 16:53]
Royalty dispute confuses CD copy-protection
News They've been negotiating with record labels for months, but already hundreds of millions of discs have been released around the world, raising the possibility of huge back payments. A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other...
[January 13, 2004, 11:40]
