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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.

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Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record

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Some of the statistics for the record attempt issued by Mozilla are impressive: a total of 83T was served, with a peak throughput of 20 gigabits per second across the network of mirrors.

Peak activity reached 17,000 downloads a minute, with sustained rates of over 4000 per minute.

Even if the Firefox community did manage to set an official record, While that's a lot of activity, Adobe platform evangelist Ryan Stewart cast doubt on its significance, claiming http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1444 that Flash Player is installed 8 million times on an average day.

Guinness World Records, previously The Guinness Book of Records, was founded in the mid 1950s by the brewery as a way of settling pub arguments. It was originally compiled by Ross and Norris McWhirter. In recent years it has shown a tendency to recognise artificial records (such as the most software dowmloads in one day), with less attention being paid to the natural world and relatively traditional fields of human endeavour.

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