iTunes and Safari Will be Combined

CALIFORNIA - the shocking news comes from Apple, the company reportedly will merge two of their services ie iTunes and Safari to be one service only. The rumors developed after a source at Apple mention to the Three Guys, as quoted on Wednesday (01/19/2011), Apple in the near future will incorporate iTunes and Safari services into one service only.

For OS X users, the service is certainly no stranger. But for Windows users, of course, is something new. For all this time between the Safari browser and iTunes prompted to download it separately.

The goal can be guessed to improve the Safari browser users around the world. Moreover, the Safari browser now ranked 4th, is under IE, Firefox, and Chrome. If Apple combines both of these services, so for people who want to access iTunes will automatically use the Safari browser, will obviously increase the level of Safari usage.

There are currently no comments on this plan. Yet another rumor says Apple will begin to combine these two services officially in the fall of 2011.

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Chrome following the Safari's achievement in Browser Market

CALIFORNIA - Google Chrome has gone through Apple's Safari browser to become the third largest in the U.S., according to statistics in December 2010 from web analysis firm, StatCounter.

Meanwhile, market leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser continues to lose marketshare, nearly two percent from the previous month. The users seem to many to switch to Google Chrome which developed into a 1.55 percent and Safari, which increased by 0.24 percent. Similarly, as quoted from PC Magazine, on Thursday (01/06/2011).

Who should receive full attention in fact is Microsoft, because in Europe, Mozilla Firefox just took IE position as the most popular browser on the continent. "This is the first time IE has fallen from first position as the most popular browser on the continent," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter.

According to StatCounter data, global marketshare from IE dropped below 50 percent for the first time in October 2010. Meanwhile, Mozilla Firefox remains stable by being in position to two years ago.

StatCounter data taken from 15 billion page views samples per month, of which 4.9 billion of which came from the North American region. However, this study did not include IE 9 Beta. Earlier this week Microsoft claims that IE 9 Beta has been downloaded more than 20 million times.

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Preparing Towards Firefox Version 4.0

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Mozilla recently updated product roadmap for the year 2010. In the first draft, the browser will get a minor update in the fourth quarter of 2009 and second quarter of 2010. Version 4.0 scheduled for release in October or November 2010 and presents the user interface and integration of the new browser synchronization.

While this version will be updated with the 3.5x version 3.6, code-named Namoroka and is currently available as an alpha 1 release. This software will have a JavaScript engine that's faster than version 3.5, startup time is faster, and update the Gecko layout engine dar 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 version. Mozilla also promises Windows 7 themes of integration, called Personas, and complementary feature called awsomeformcomplete form.

The most interesting, version 3.6 will introduce Fennec 1.0. This is a mobile version of Firefox, which also will use the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

Roadmap draft suggests that Firefox 3.7 will appear in the first or second quarter next year, with renewal of Fennec v1.1 browser, version 1.9.3 Gecko engine, XUL support for animation, task-oriented browsing, out-of-process plug-ins for the stability of the software, synchronize your bookmarks online, as well as an increase in TraceMonkey and pageload. Mozilla recently released Firefox 3.7 iin as a pre-alpha version 1 and show it to the developers.

If the information on the draft roadmap was right, Firefox 4.0 will come in October or November next year. Renewal is not yet known what will be presented this browser other than a minor update to the Gecko (to version 1.9.4), the new user interface for all platforms and Fennec 2.

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New Engine Opera vs Firefox and Chrome

Upcoming version of Opera would seem to 2.5 times faster than the existing version of Opera now. Opera achieve more speed because Carakan, an engine ECMAScript / Javascript that is being developed for this Internet browser, Carakan far away Opera 10 Presto 2.2 Alpha

Carakan goal is to become the fastest browser engine on the market. Apart from the goal that Opera seems very difficult to be reached where Google and Mozilla also has the same end goal for Chrome and Firefox.

By using the regular cross-flatform switch dispatch (without the code in the native-generate) Carakan will 2.5x faster on the benchmark Spider-Sun, faster than the ECMAScript engine 2.2 Presto used by Opera 10 Alpha. Although the native code generation Carakan not ready for full testing, but at the individual benchmark tests show that Carakan is compatible with the speed of 5 to 50 times faster.

Furthermore, Carakan will not rely on bytecode execution that is faster, but the Opera will be able to modify the engine that combines many programs and functions into native code. Unfortunately, Opera does not hurry implemented the Carakan ECMASript / JavaSript, at least Carakan will used after Opera 10. PCMedia

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