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HTC One X, the high-end quad-core Android-based mobile phone that HTC made official in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, arrives on shelves with a crippled multitasking experience, recent reports unveil. Apparently, users have discovered that the new tweaks that HTC introduced in HTC One X to hand... |
17 May 2012
06:41 GMT |
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The latest Google phone out there, none other than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, can deliver a wide range of appealing features to its users, including multitasking capabilities.
The smartphone provides users the ability to easily take advantage of this feature through a dedicated recent apps button.
Just hit it, and... |
21 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Investigators have recently determined that performing multiple tasks at the same time makes people distracted, and more likely to make an error in at least one of the activities they are performing. For the purpose of this study, the research team behind the work looked at how people multi-tasked between watching TV... |
3 May 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Magellan has announced version 1.3.1 of its popular Magellan RoadMate navigation app for iPhone, touting the update as a major one. The updated app is available now on Apple's App Store for $59.99 (North America version), $49.99 (USA version), or $29.99 (Canada & Alaska version).According to the app’s make... |
30 November 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7 features a special notifications system that is supposed to supplement the lack of full-blown multitasking. Microsoft's current approach at multitasking is intended to improve battery life, as it only keeps a few pre-defined apps resident in the smartphone's memory.Even though this system is... |
3 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Multifl0w, a multitasking interface for jailbroken iPhones, has received an important update, adding Exposé-like functionality, which makes it faster to use, and have all of the open apps visible at the same time.Softpedia readers may recall that Apple's CEO admited that his company was late to incorporat... |
23 August 2010
06:24 GMT |
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Thumbplay has announced that its cloud-based Thumbplay Music service is now available on iPhone OS 4, taking advantage of the software’s multi-tasking capabilities, allowing users to listen to their favorite tracks while engaging in other activities, such as checking e-mail, and surfing the web, the company s... |
21 July 2010
10:29 GMT |
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A summary of circumstances users may encounter during their use of an iPhone running iOS 4 has been posted to the Support area of Apple’s website, via a knowledge base article entitled “iOS 4: About multitasking.” In the document, the company offers a brief introduction to the iOS function, and trou... |
23 June 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Last year, it was demonstrated in monkeys that a single brain cell – called a neuron – can be in charge of storing a memory. While learning this was an achievement in and of itself, researchers wanted to push the envelope a bit further, and go deeper with their studies. In follow-up researches, it was rev... |
10 June 2010
09:38 GMT |
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A video preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 multitasking animation has been uploaded to YouTube, with the tester showing off functions like fast app switching in real time and slow motion. Apple released a second beta of the new iPhone OS and SDK to developers earlier this week. Notable changes have been spotted, including ... |
22 April 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Provided that you have a new-generation device, Apple says you’re in for some wild times come summer 2010 when the company launches iPhone OS 4, “the biggest and most exciting iPhone software update yet,” according to a post on its website. “iPhone OS 4 will include over 100 new user features ... |
9 April 2010
04:05 GMT |
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Although Apple is undoubtedly testing the new version of its iPhone’s operating system, it remains to be confirmed what exactly it brings in terms of new features, as well as the hardware it will run on. It is a widely accepted conception that Apple will roll out iPhone OS 4.0 in tandem with a revamped version ... |
1 April 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The newly unveiled mobile operating system from Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is not all only milk and honey, even if the first demonstrations of the platform showed it might be. It seems that there are a series of limitations that users will face, starting with the lack of multitasking capabilities when it... |
17 March 2010
07:47 GMT |
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A report by AppleInsider citing people with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advancements reveals that the company’s next major revision to the iPhone OS will include multitasking support. Although the current iPhone OS (version 3.2) does sport a reduced form of multitasking (mai... |
12 March 2010
04:07 GMT |
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When unveiling officially the new Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft managed to rise more questions than those which have been answered, and some of them are still there, waiting for the MIX10 conference in mid-March to kick off to be answered. And since the event is several weeks ahead, and there are some not willin... |
18 February 2010
06:15 GMT |
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As Apple’s “creation” event approaches, talk about the new version of iPhone software continues to intensify. Recently, a source close to Apple has been leaking iPhone OS 4.0 details, including such tidbits as multitasking (the ability to run apps in the background), system-wide multi-touch gestures... |
20 January 2010
06:55 GMT |
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It would arguably be extremely hard to image the modern world without multitasking. It has become such a widespread habit, that virtually everyone does it. Children do it, their parents too, and business people are among the representatives of the genre. But very few of us have stopped to think where this ability com... |
29 September 2009
03:03 GMT |
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In modern-day society, multitasking is one of those traits that are encouraged at the workplace and in private life, in spite of the fact that no one really knows what its effects are in the long run. It is only now that scientists are beginning to analyze the implications of this phenomenon, in several benchmark stu... |
25 August 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has recently made public a report that describes the performance of the newly released Palm Pre, called “Mobile Device User Evaluation: Palm Pre.” According to the research firm, the handset can perform very well when it comes to the multitasking functionality it packs, at least this is... |
10 July 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The nearing launch of one of the most anticipated mobile phones of the year, the Palm Pre, has led to a wide range of rumors regarding the possible date when Sprint, the carrier that will have it exclusively in the US, plans on making the handset available. Rumors and reports on a possible price tag the Pre will feat... |
7 May 2009
04:41 GMT |
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As soon as Palm unveiled Pre, its new high-end mobile phone, most of the market watchers and industry analysts considered the device a great competitor against Apple's iPhone. The handset looks good, has a lot of capabilities, and also includes a brand new operating system, webOS, which is reportedly capable of ... |
18 March 2009
05:53 GMT |
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A new research advises us not to trust the legend of our multitasking, since we're not at all able to do more things at the same time consciously.The same study stresses on the emergence of an adjacent unique ability that propelled us to an evolutionary edge - the humans' capacity of toggling their att... |
3 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Being able to work with many applications at the same time and have several windows open in each of them was a major breakthrough. Rare are the occasions where I only have one application open, and by rare I mean never. That having been said, there are times when, no matter how many applications and windows you have ... |
30 March 2007
08:55 GMT |
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