Apple might be planning to allow background processing in a future iPhone, perhaps having decided that its planned push-notification system for the iPhone was not the best solution. MacRumors has a ...

Three products at DemoSpring show that it's time for Apple to get off the stick and figure out the background problems like power management and security. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and ...

Your typical Android mobile app is a skilled multi-tasker, capable of performing complex and long-running tasks in the background (such as handling network requests or transferring data) while ...

Processing in which the program is not visibly interacting with the user. Earlier personal computers used operating systems that ran background tasks only when foreground tasks were idle, such as ...

The tech giant has updated its blog post to reveal the new changes for its (recently unified) video calling platform. Google has confirmed that the company has already started rolling out these two ...