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If you don't know, Samuel writes for LSHacks.com.  His former website, http://comphelpwithsam.comze.com was recently taken down, and he will be posting ALL content here!

So be sure to be looking out for some new stuff!

-Samuel

www.lshacks.com

P.S. Quick plug for my YouTube channel: youtube.com/comphelpwithsam  Thanks!

New statistics which show web traffic generated by mobile devices (which was updated in March of this year) show clearly that the iPhone is still continuing to dominate. An example of web traffic is would be surfing through from safari on your iPhone. But we also see something which could be bad for iPhone in the future. That device is the Blackberry, taking up 22% of the chart! This could lead to be a big contender for the web traffic market. Also the new Windows Mobile is starting to show us what it can do, by taking up 11%.

Hopefully iPhone will continue to dominate the chart. And I?m sure the new iPhone, coming out in June - July 2009 will help a lot.

The webpage Apple will post to celebrate the billionth app download from the App Store has been leaked online.

MacMagazine.com.br reader JOSZé discovered a counter embedded in the Apple home page which detects if your computer's time and date is past the estimated time the billionth app is downloaded. Currently that estimated time is at 14:12.20 on April 23rd.

Apple has prepared a new homepage (see below) which will shown to celebrate the event.

AT&T is increasing the downlink capacity on its high-speed packet access (HSPA) from 3.6 megabits per second to 7.2 Mb/s through software upgrades at the base station, according to Scott McElroy, AT&T Mobility Vice President of Technology Realization.

Telephony Online reports that AT&T currently has the enhanced networks running in two test markets but plans to extend those capabilities to its entire network. HSPA can theoretically support 14.4Mb/s; however, the report suggest this may never happen...

The next obvious step would be for AT&T to further upgrade its 3G networks and devices to its full 14.4-Mb/s potential, but McElroy said AT&T will most likely skip the final HSPA iteration for two reasons: There have been technical difficulties implementing the final step, and HSPA+ is now ready for prime time. There's little point in migrating to 14.4 Mb/s if AT&T can go straight to 21 Mb/s, McElroy said. HSPA+ actually encompasses a bevy of upgrades, including evolving to a flat IP core and the introduction of smart antenna technology, but AT&T is focusing on upgrades to the baseband, which will dramatically increase capacity without having to fiddle with the elements on the tower or in the core.

It has widely been rumored that the next iPhone 3G expected in June will be able to take advantage of the faster 7.2MB/s connection AT&T is currently phasing in.

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Youtube has secretly decided to launch a new beta feature.  Apparently new channel designs are coming soon and they are allowing anyone to test the beta version out.  

It is now very easy to change your background and other features of your channel. 

Anyone who is interested in changing their channel to the new beta page should go to this link.

www.youtube.com/super_seekrit

you can always change back to the old version if you decide you dont like it.