Why it's important to monitor your PC's background processes

What your PC is doing in the background doesn't need to be a mystery. Learn about what's happening and how to spot when ...
MUO on MSN

Your Windows PC runs dozens of background services you never asked for, and most can go

Not every background service deserves to stay.
Houston Chronicle

Background Processes on the iPad

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 ...
CNET

iPhone to get background processes: No wait, it’s interesting

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 ...
CNET

Apple addresses lack of iPhone background processes with "push notification"

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 ...
Android Police

DontKillMyApp.com shames OEMs that needlessly kill useful background processes to save battery life

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 ...
Macworld

Some background on background processes

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 ...
ecoustics

Background Processes–That Dont Interrupt Performance?

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, ...