7 posts and columns on Guinness World Record

Can Microsoft’s Xbox Have Another Kinect Christmas, or Will It Be Coal All Around?

in Commerce on November 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Microsoft’s hands-free motion controller made a big splash last holiday season, but can it move past the obvious dance and sports genres?
Dance Central on Xbox

Firefox 4 First-Day Downloads Outstrip IE9's, Fall Short of Firefox 3 Record

in Social on March 23, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

According to Mozilla’s official counter page, Firefox 4 has been downloaded more than seven million times. Impressive, but its first-day numbers were still short of the Firefox 3 release in June 2008, which actually earned a Guinness World Record for its eight million downloads in 24 hours.

News Byte

Casual Contestant Shatters Texting Speed Record

in News on August 23, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

Melissa Thompson, 27, of Salford, England, was out shopping over the weekend when the folks at a Samsung booth persuaded her to have a go at texting the official 26-word sentence used in determining the Guinness World Record speed title. Despite proclaiming her fingers out of shape, Thompson took a Swype-equipped Samsung Galaxy S in hand, and when she was done, the existing record of 35.54 seconds–set earlier this year by Franklin Page of Seattle–lay in tatters. Thompson took just 25.94 seconds to type “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”

Pre-Mature Elaboration: Sprint Cancels Palm Pre Offer

in News on September 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm PT

If there’s a Guinness World Record for shortest-lived promotional offer by a wireless carrier, Sprint’s surely a front-runner for it. Just six or so hours after offering a $100 service credit to new subscribers who purchase a Palm Pre and port their numbers over from another carrier, Sprint canceled it. The company’s official statement after the jump.
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Sprint: The Now Network

in News on September 8, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Does Adobe Deserve the Most Downloads Record?

in News on January 30, 2009 at 4:37 am PT

Adobe Systems may have a claim to the world record for most software downloads in a day–if the company wants to push its case. Over the summer, the Mozilla Foundation, which makes the Firefox Web browser, started a campaign to break the Guinness World Record for the most times a piece of software was downloaded in a single day.