In total Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8.3 million times over the 24 hour record setting period.
Chris Boardman won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times.
Its new four-legged creation is Cheetah, which can run at 18 miles an hour, far faster than the 13.1 miles per hour record set by MIT in 1989.
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Mr Boardman, who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times, said he hoped Martyn's victory would change that situation.
The Czech 10th seed took less than an hour to record a 6-2 6-0 victory.
The 17-year-old was no match for the Welshman, who needed just an hour to record victory.
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But a sunburnt Murray needed less than an hour to record a straight sets victory over Kohlschreiber to level the tie.
Meanwhile, two-time Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie broke the seldom-attempted one-hour world record.
In suburban Chicago, which got up to 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending Thursday, record levels of water were moving through the Des Plaines River past heavily populated western suburbs and into the Illinois River to the south.
Instead of a one-hour movie taking literally an entire weekend to transcode and record onto your DVD, we can take that hour movie and transcode it into the DVD in maybe half an hour.
It would also have broken the course record but for the fact that just over an hour earlier Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell blitzed an incredible course record 61 -- the lowest round of his professional career and an unbelievable 16-stroke improvement on his opening 77.
Hatch appeared on five networks in an hour, breaking the previous indoor record for Consecutive Appearances in a Single Day, held by William Ginsburg.
In its simplest form, it lets your "smart" electric meter talk back to the utility and record your usage by hour, so you can adjust your habits to take advantage of lower, off-peak rates.
The aircraft was part of a group of seven Dreamliners delivered to six Boeing customers during a 25-hour period in late December, a record touted by the plane maker.
The Spaniard claimed his eighth straight title at the tournament, ending a run of seven defeats in finals to the man who replaced him at the top of the world rankings, including January's record-breaking six-hour epic at the Australian Open.
Lukas Rosol had helped the defending champions take a 2-1 lead against Switzerland after a record-breaking seven-hour doubles clash, but his playing partner Tomas Berdych put the tie beyond the home team as he won Sunday's opening doubles rubber against Stanislas Wawrinka.
The watch will also feature a built-in camera that can record for up to half an hour.
He has won the Australian Open three times, including a record-breaking near six-hour final against Nadal in January, plus last year's Wimbledon and U.S. Open tournaments.
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And from the realm of pedal-powered transportation we brought you the SplinterBike - a bicycle made entirely from wood that can hit a record-breaking 30 miles per hour.
When the board convened on February 7, 2005, Fiorina delivered a half-hour presentation reiterating her strategic plans and reviewing her record.
Monty succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record for most costume changes in an 8 hour period.
And it was against that backdrop that Mr. Gingrich launched his harsh, 11th-hour attack on Mr. Romney's Bain Capital record.
An attempt to break the world record for the most sandcastles built in an hour is being made on a Dorset beach.
An attempt on Bournemouth beach to break the world record for the most sandcastles built in an hour has failed by being just five structures short.
The team at Mozilla, the group behind the free Firefox Web browser, is gunning to set a record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.
Her death comes exactly five weeks, almost to the hour, after the apparent suicide of David Wilson, her record producer boyfriend and father of her infant boy.
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In fact, the car apparently already holds the "unofficial" speed record for an automous car at 130 miles per hour and, in the long term, Stanford hopes that it'll be able to complete the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which stretches some twenty kilometers and includes no less than 156 turns.
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