Intel deal to buy Wind River may pit it against Apple's iPhone team An Intel move to buy mobile software experts Wind River Systems could do more than just give the chip maker a leg up in handheld devices; it could also spark more direct competition between Apple and Intel. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 36
ARM shows possibly iPhone-bound multicore mobile processor ARM is demonstrating the first working example of a multicore processor that may dramatically speed up smartphones. Meanwhile, Apple is looking for iPhone engineers that can write multithreaded code that may take advantage of ARM's breakthrough. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 31
Apple rumored allowing real background apps on iPhone After leaving its once-touted background push data feature by the wayside, Apple is now reportedly mulling an option that would let iPhone apps run third-party background processes and give the phone true app multitasking. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 73
