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Mozilla mulls over removing the address bar from Firefox A few months ago, Google caused quite a stir when it was revealed that they were considering removing the address bar in a future version of Google Chrome. Many people were up in arms at the idea of navigating the web without this seemingly-essential UI element and now it looks like Mozilla might one day follow suit, if a blog post detailing some browser concepts is to be believed. While this move will certainly polarise the Internet, author David Regev makes quite a good case for dumping the much-loved URL bar. However, the blog is interesting because it's less about removing features from the web browser and more about designing it from scratch. A big part of the redesign is Ubiquity, a currently experimental addon for firefox that allows users type in natural language commands to perform various actions. This has the immediate benefit of letting you add extra functionality to the browser without having to add new UI elements and the theory is that it could be used to navigate web sites just as effectively as the URL bar while at the same time adding a lot of extra functionality. Source: Neowin
While AT&T is well behind both Verizon and T-Mobile in launching its faster LTE based wireless network, the company is finally revealing the first US cities that will benefit from the faster data speeds when the service does go live later this year. In a new press release today, AT&T revealed that Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio will be the debut locations for the LTE service when it goes live sometime this summer. Furthermore, AT&T says that it will add 10 more unnamed locations in the US in the second half of 2011 to have LTE service. The company claims by the end of the year, the LTE network will cover 70 million people in the US. In a recent article at GigaOM, AT&T showed off the LTE service's speed, claiming that it will have download speeds of 28.87 Mbps and upload speeds of 10.4 Mbps. That, in theory, will be much faster than Verizon's own current LTE network which it says can push down between 5 and 12 Mbps for download speeds and upload speeds of up to 5 Mbps. However, Verizon has also got a several month head start on its own LTE network with a large number of cities already live and many more going live in the near future. T-Mobile, which AT&T is trying to acquire at the moment, has also just activated a new and fast wirelessnetwork in over 50 cities this week with speeds that it says will reach 42 Mbps on downloads. Source: Neowin Apple's iTunes goes over 500,000 apps for iOS Less than three years after Apple's iTunes began releasing applications for its iPhone, iPod Touch and later iPad devices, the iTunes store has now offered up over 500,000 iOS apps for download (both free and paid) for the US market. The milestone, according to CNN Money's web site, was achieved after midnight on Tuesday when Apple released a number of new apps for download. The iTunes App Store first launched on July 10, 2008 with just 500 apps. The actual number of iOS apps currently available to download is about 400,000, according to the article, due to replacing older apps and the withdrawal of others. The article states that as of January 2011, over 10 billion iOS apps have been downloaded from the app store. Releasing 500,000 of anything is something to celebrate, at least according to three companies. iOS game developer Chillingo has teamed up with the search company Chomp and the mobile app blog site 148apps to release a massive chart of info that includes a timeline and tons of facts about the iTunes App Store's history. Among the facts on the chart is that games make up the most iOS apps at 15 percent, followed by books at 14 percent and general entertainment apps at 11 percent. More facts from the chart: 37 percent of all iOS apps are free to download. If you actually buy an app, the average price is $3.64. There are also over 85,000 unique developers that have apps on sale on the App Store.
Study: Netflix is biggest source of Internet traffic in US As the popularity of Netflix' streaming video and TV show service grows, so does its share of the total amount of traffic on the Internet. At least that's what a new study on Internet traffic indicates. According to a study from Sandvine, the amount of net traffic devoted to streaming video from the Netflix service totals 29.7 percent of all the traffic here in North America. Furthermore, "real time entertainment" which includes Netflix streaming, is now the source of 49.2 percent of all net traffic in North America. That's up from just 29.5 percent in 2009. File sharing/P2P services is now a distant second category with just 18.8 percent of net traffic in the US devoted to it. Basic web browsing "only" takes up 16.6 percent of net traffic here in the US at the moment. Real time Entertainment is also the largest part of net traffic in Latin America. According to the report it takes up 27.5 percent of peak net traffic. Over in Europe, real time entertainment takes up 33.2 percent of next traffic but file sharing is still a big source at the moment, taking up 30.1 percent of net traffic. Sandvine bases its report "on voluntary and completely anonymous data, aggregated from fixed and mobile service provider networks spanning Europe, Latin America and North America." With Netflix taking up more and more of the Internet's traffic, you have to wonder if ISPs will use this study as a way to justify putting in more broadband caps for consumers.
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AT&T reveals first US cities to get LTE wireless network
