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MacRumours has "heard" that Apple might let iPhone users keep apps running in the background when not actively in use. Your 'Yes, and?' comments are not entirely unexpected, so let us explain why this ...

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When Apple initially announced the iPhone SDK, there was much dismay over the lack of background process capabilities, which disallows third-party applications to, for instance, notify the user of ...

The latest Android 14 reports feature new information on the upcoming version of the system to power smartphones soon, and it will be to stop the process of "Speed Booster" apps on the platform. It ...

Back in March, when we first learned the details behind the upcoming iPhone SDK, I wrote about Apple’s decision to not allow background applications on the iPhone. As described in Apple’s Human ...

One of the nifty things about a computer is its ability to perform many tasks simultaneously–while a user is composing a word doc, that same computer might also be performing a database search, ...