Dave Price, the head of BBC iPlayer, said: "BBC iPlayer had a record-breaking festive period, with performance driven by new mobiles and tablets unwrapped on Christmas Day, and it looks like these devices have yet to be put down".
The "record-breaking" Christmas period saw a total of 102 million requests - 80 million for TV and 22 million for radio programmes, Taylor said.
The Shanghai Composite, an index of all stocks traded on the Chinese stock exchange, has fallen 30 per cent since its peak on June 12 following a record-breaking eight-month growth period.
Experian spokesman, Nick Jones, said: "We have already witnessed record-breaking spending over the festive period.
A period of record-breaking temperatures is expected continue Tuesday as a days-long heat wave peaks, forecasters warned.
But the development of an onshore flow should start to cool the region this afternoon, forecasters said, meaning the period of record-breaking heat will also likely come to a close.
The December decline brought the job losses since the attack on the World Trade Center to more than 100,000 -- a record-breaking drop for a three-month period that surpassed even the steep decline that began in November of 1990, according to William C. Thompson Jr., the New York City comptroller.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) more than 132 million people have been under an excessive heat advisories for long periods this summer, with record-breaking temperatures in the triple digits.
The long answer will surely include the fact that we seem to be breaking records all the time: record-breaking heat in the summer, record-breaking heat in the winter, record-breaking winds, and record-breaking dryness.
Still, that brought the accumulated trade surplus so far this year to a record-breaking $28.12 billion, a 38percentt increase over the comparable period in 2003.
