Windows was doing more work in the background than I realized, and stopping one process gave my laptop noticeably better ...

None of them were doing anything useful for me.

Although you only see one app at a time while using an iPad, behind the screen your iPad can be bustling with activity -- playing music, checking stock reports, or waiting for the latest news alerts ...

As gadget users, we have all at one point experienced a really slow device. A perfectly good device can just suddenly feel slow. You click on an icon that should open in a split second and its taking ...

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 ...

Jason is a corporate communicator by weekday, freelance writer by weekend. His Android days go back to the atrocity that was the HTC ThunderBolt, but his love for Android began in earnest with the ...

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 ...