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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]
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]
BEA & HP Set A New Performance World Record In Industry-Standard Benchmark
White Papers BEA and HP recently announced a new world record-setting benchmark result on Itanium 2-based servers, achieving 3 times higher transactional throughput than any competitor! This white paper explains how such a record-setting goal was met and how...
[June 10, 2004, 0:05]
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]
Oracle 10g Warehouse Builder: Unleashing World Record Performance
White Papers Oracle 10g Warehouse Builder, the only data warehouse tool available that can utilize the powerful potential of Oracle 10g, provides a highly scalable solution for challenging data warehousing problems.
[March 10, 2006, 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]
MineSweeper3D
Downloads World record times kept online. Meters at the side show you how well you are doing compared to your personal best or world record time. You'll even be told when someone beats one of your world records.
[April 5, 2008, 12:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reports arrive that "New Hampshire, USA, gaming superstar Donald Haynes" has just broken the world Dig-Dug record, taking four hours forty minutes to rack up a score of 4,388,520 points. The previous record of 4,211,920 points was held for three...
[October 31, 2003, 14:20]
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]
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 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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The IT world tends to have men in suits battering on about subtle matters of intellectual property while the record biz has people like Prince appearing on telly with SLAVE written all over their tiny bods in ballpoint pen.
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
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]
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]
IBM's Training For Olympic Marathon
News Avid Olympic fans in the United States and Europe helped drive the traffic on the Web site to a world record rate of 103,429 hits per minute. It was a world record at the time. At least it will be assured of a world record.
[July 13, 2000, 16:02]
