Desktop operating systems have been multitasking in one way or another for decades. In order for the iPad to fill the shoes of a notebook PC and act as the primary computing platform, it needs to be ...

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the launch of the iPhone 3GS, rumors are beginning to circulate about what we can expect from an iPhone 4G. One of the most-wanted, and most-speculated ...

For nearly all people, in nearly all situations, multitasking is impossible. When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once but instead, individual actions in ...

Ravizza suggested that Internet use might be a different and more engaging flavor of multitasking than other activity juggling. The big question of course is what to do about all this, since banning ...

I often wish that I could live in what I like to call "Wardrobe Time." In C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," four schoolchildren disappear through a wardrobe into the magical land of ...

Clients, friends, and colleagues face similar challenges, a pervasive sense of feeling overwhelmed and anxious, a sentiment I attribute to our collective struggle with our screen usage obsession. Our ...