multitasking
Media Company Expects Lower Phone Costs, Less Travel With Communications Solution
White Paper In addition, the headsets - which are Optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator - make collaboration more productive by providing high-quality audio and ease multitasking by leaving users' hands free. [02 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up In each, the researchers split participants into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking (muck about with Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging when they should be working) and those who don't... [28 Aug 2009]
Is constant Facebooking, Twittering, IMing taking its toll on attention spans?
News In each, the researchers split participants into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don't. The last test was aimed at determining if multitaskers are good at switching from one... [26 Aug 2009]
Anticipating the Bandwidth Bottleneck: Meeting Future Bandwidth Demands
White Paper Due to multitasking, they're packing more media consumption into smaller slices of time, significantly increasing the amount of bandwidth needed to support individual viewing habits. Living today in a media-crazed world,... [15 Aug 2009]
FTT-Ethernet: A Platform to Implement the Elastic Task Model Over Message Streams
White Paper The elastic task model, proposed previously, is well suited to support that level of flexibility in multitasking systems running on single processors. Real-time distributed systems are becoming more pervasive, supporting... [02 Apr 2009]
Buffered Coscheduling: A New Methodology for Multitasking Parallel Jobs on Distributed Systems
White Paper Buffered coscheduling is a scheduling methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in parallel and distributed systems. The methodology has two primary features: communication buffering and strobing. [05 Feb 2009]
ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
White Paper Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect overhead due to... [02 Feb 2009]
Two-thirds of Brits want to do it from home
News Multitasking' was also popular with WFHers - almost half (42 per cent) of female home workers said they regularly do cleaning or laundry during the workday - and almost a third of men say they use work time to prepare... [05 Sep 2008]
Family Dollar Enables Strategic Business Initiatives With New Store Systems
White Paper At the heart of the new cash register is Windows Embedded for Point of Service, which provides a stable, secure, multitasking operating system and leverages Family Dollar's investments in Microsoft product and... [26 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine With the Easter weekend now... [27 Mar 2008]
Wireless Mobility Expense Management: Enterprise WiFi and Dual Mode Wireless Services
White Paper In nowadays fast pace, multitasking environment, enterprises must support "On the go" workers that are running multiple applications (e.g.email, contacts, calendar scheduling, CRM, ERP), creating financial reports and... [03 Sep 2007]
PC World escapes punishment over chip ads
News The footnote in the advert read: "Based on multitasking benchmarking against previous-generation Centrino. PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest... [06 Jul 2007]
Disruption and Recovery of Computing Tasks: Field Study, Analysis, and Directions
White Paper This paper reports on a field study of the multitasking behavior of computer users focused on the suspension and resumption of tasks. Data was collected with a tool that logged users' interactions with software... [31 May 2007]
Real-Time Embedded Computers Help Maximize Gym Workouts
White Paper Technical requirements included high-performance graphics for video and animations, a familiar development environment for fast time to market, real-time multitasking for built-in sensors and device drivers for wireless... [22 May 2007]
Industrial Embedded Systems - INES
White Paper For embedded PC applications, Linux present several advantages such as smaller amount of memory and ability to run without problems also in low cost PC solutions and a multitasking real-time OS has to include also... [24 Apr 2007]