NewsFactor – After downloading the latest version of Skype from Apple’s App Store, iPhone 4 users will have two options for live chats to talk to friends and family without using cell-phone minutes. Skype 2.0.1, recently adapted to use 3G signals instead of Wi-Fi, is now capable of running in the background while other apps are running to answer incoming calls, even when the phone is locked.
Posts Tagged ‘the-background’
July 22nd, 2010
New Skype 2.0.1 Allows iPhone Live Chats in 3G (NewsFactor)
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Tags: Apple, background, friends-and, Latest, options-for, signals-instead, the-background, users-will 
No Comments »July 19th, 2010
IBM contracts and revenue disappoint (Reuters)
Reuters – IBM disappointed investors by reporting a decline in new technology services contracts in the second quarter, while a weaker euro hit revenue more than expected, sending its shares down more than 4 percent.
Posted in Software Tags: a-weaker-euro, background, second, sending-its, september, sign-at-the, the-background, weaker-euro No Comments »June 21st, 2010
Hands-on with iOS 4 update for iPhone, iPod Touch (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – At last, the latest major update for the iPhone and iPod Touch is available for download via iTunes, bringing with it such long-awaited features as multitasking, a unified e-mail inbox and home-screen app folders. Should you upgrade? Well, yeah, but don’t expect all your apps to start working in the background just yet.
Posted in Apple, Latest Tags: apps, background, bringing-with, download-via, Latest, patterson, the-background No Comments »June 10th, 2010
Why Google Backed Down on Home Page Backgrounds – PC World
Telegraph.co.uk Why Google Backed Down on Home Page Backgrounds PC World Google pulled the plug on its home page background experiment Thursday, just hours after the day-long endeavor began. The G-Team had planned on featuring different images in the background of google.com for a full 24 hours, a move meant to show off the …
Posted in Latest Tags: after-the-day, down-on-home, faster-forward, images-on-home, sci/tech, the-background No Comments »June 3rd, 2010
Customize Your Google Search Page – PC World
Techie Buzz Customize Your Google Search Page PC World Google will now let users add personal photos to the background of the traditionally minimalist search page, Google announced in a blog post Thursday. In what is perhaps a transparent effort to out-feature Microsoft Bing, Google is ditching its boring …
Posted in Latest Tags: abuses-search, background, group-contends, microsoft, news-articles, sci/tech, techie-buzz, the-background, usa No Comments »April 9th, 2010
Apple’s 7 Forms of iPhone Multitasking (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine – Rather than letting full third-party programs run in the background of iPhone OS 4, Apple will expose seven background services to iPhone developers, who can combine them to create a sleight-of-hand that would make their programs appear to be running behind the scenes.
Posted in Apple Tags: Apple, make-their, programs-appear, programs-run, scenes, the-background, the-scenes- No Comments »April 8th, 2010
Apple: Multitasking coming to the iPhone this summer, iPad in the fall (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – One of the biggest criticisms leveled at the iPhone and the iPad — that it can’t run third-party apps in the background — will be fixed at last (partially, anyway), with a little help from iPhone software 4.0, Steve Jobs announced Thursday.
Posted in Apple, Software Tags: background, fall, Software, software-4-0, steve-jobs, summer, technology, the-background No Comments »April 7th, 2010
Apple to restrict iPhone, iPad multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 – Computerworld
PC World Apple to restrict iPhone, iPad multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 Computerworld If Apple announces multitasking for its iPhone and iPad tomorrow, it will be a limited version that the company controls, allowing some applications to run in the background but denying others, experts said today. ..
Posted in Apple, Latest, Mobile Tags: Apple, but-denying, daily, limited-version, Mobile, news-articles, the-background, world No Comments »March 13th, 2010
Steve Jobs may finally have approval to tear down house – NetworkWorld.com
Steve Jobs may finally have approval to tear down house NetworkWorld.com Here's the background: In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh , and Jobs bought a 17000-square foot mansion in Woodside, Calif. The mansion—built in the … and more
Posted in Apple Tags: foot-mansion, have-approval, table-border, the-background, woodside No Comments »March 13th, 2010
Steve Jobs finally wins approval to tear down house… possibly – Macworld
Steve Jobs finally wins approval to tear down house…
Posted in Apple Tags: and-more, background, house-possibly, img-alt, steve-jobs, table-border, the-background, woodside No Comments »
