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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Mozilla claims Guinness Record for downloads

    Thu Jul 3, 2008 6:01am EDT
    Mozilla CEO John Lilly in an undated photo. Mozilla, developer of open-source Web browser Firefox, said on Wednesday it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. REUTERS/Handout

    (Reuters) - Mozilla, developer of open-source Web browser Firefox, said on Wednesday it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

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    Over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3 in the period following its official launch, the company said in a statement.

    Key rivals to Firefox are market leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple Inc's Safari browser.

    Mozilla is in a battle with Microsoft, which unveiled an experimental version of its Internet Explorer 8 in Las Vegas in April and has been looking to expand its presence on the Web.

    Firefox 3's additions boost security and allow users to run Web sites when they are not connected to the Internet.

    (Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore; Editing by Paul Bolding)
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