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News Little-known UK pop group The Electric Soft Parade have made it into the Guinness Book of Records, with a little help from Microsoft, for the fastest pop video ever made. The video for the band's single There's a Silence... [15 Nov 2001]
Compaq tops up Guinness' systems
News The Guinness brewery company has entered into a five-year contract with Compaq to supply services for its London data centre, which controls the global production of all its products. The £1.6m deal will see Compaq... [16 Mar 2000]
New Operating System Saves Consulting Firm Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
White Paper Guinness Gallagher is a New Zealand based boutique consulting firm providing strategic business advice to global governments and international corporations. Faced with the challenges of keeping extremely sensitive client... [18 Jan 2008]
Firefox 3 - World Record attempt in the making?
News Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads of an application in one day, on the release of its Firefox 3 web browser. There is currently no official Guinness World... [30 May 2008]
PC DIY world record attempt in Hong Kong
News The attempt hopes to set a record for the Guinness World Records, according to a statement by Microsoft Hong Kong. The event has already been accepted by the Guinness World Records as a valid record... [01 Oct 2003]
John Lamb's Week: Let the mobile ring tones drive you mad
Comment Virgin Mobile will be "celebrating ring tone culture" with an attempt to establish a Guinness world record for the number of phones ringing in unison. After three attempts a Guinness judge will decide... [31 Aug 2001]
Firefox 3 is a go
News Mozilla, on the release of the browser, is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads of an application in a day. There is currently no official Guinness World Record for the... [18 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3: "We're ready", says Mozilla
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... [13 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Reuters CIO David Lister
Comment I was recruited essentially to go back up to Scotland and to help integrate the processes and technology that was required to pull together the old Distillers brand businesses - Johnnie Walker, Gordons, et cetera - which in the... [10 Jan 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Sometimes the Round-Up is very unsure of things until Guinness gets involved.and then pretty much anything seems like a good idea. A spokesman for Match.com told silicon.com: "By our figures we have broken the record but... [29 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.06.05
Round-Up Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records, said: "The Live 8 text lottery has had an unprecedented response and we're thrilled to be awarding them with a Guinness World Record - especially as it's... [17 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.03.04
Round-Up Speaking of tiny things - though this one is certainly visible to the naked eye - Toshiba this week announced it has made it into the Guinness Book of Records with the world's smallest hard disk drive. [19 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up If, like the Round-Up, you always used to get a copy of the Guinness Book of Records from your uncle and auntie at Christmas time you will have a preternatural interest in world records - particularly the setting of new... [25 May 2007]
Drinks firm toasts IP telephony
News The company behind drinks brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Bailey's and Guinness has chosen Cisco to help it deploy 2,000 IP-based telephones at its global headquarters. Diageo said it chose an IP system because... [21 Aug 2002]
Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone
Photo The featherweight mobile was crowned by Guinness World Records judges after weighing in at just 40.1g. The diminutive modu, pictured, has scooped the world record for the world's lightest mobile phone. [27 Mar 2008]
