If an application keeps running in the background though you repeatedly shut it down, it probably launches automatically with Windows. For example, Adobe Acrobat runs a background app to help you ...

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 ...

Apple has equipped some of its developers with the tools needed to begin authoring iPhone applications that can receive data over the internet, like instant messages, even when they're not running.