Social games on Facebook typically have asynchronous actions: a player does something, and other players react later, and not in real time.

FORBES: Google Buzz + Social Gaming = g-FarmVille?

"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.

ENGADGET: Samsung and Toshiba double-down on 400Mbps DDR 2.0 NAND flash memory standard

For example, Philips, a Dutch electronics manufacturer, has already built a pager that uses asynchronous technology.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

The server also includes Microsoft Message Queuing to support asynchronous delivery of data to devices without a persistent connection.

CNN: Microsoft introduces wireless server

The engineers selected a hot new technology called asynchronous transfer mode.

FORBES: Chips that change their spots

That asynchronous linear drive, if true, can be good for meeting a specific objective.

WSJ: How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice From Female CEOs

Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.

FORBES: Client vs. Server Architecture: Why Google Voice Search Is Also Much Faster Than Siri