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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