Created in 1999, Neopets was the progenitor of what would later become an extremely popular game genre: the multi-player browser-based pet simulation game.

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"3G unleashes the iPhone's high-res screen, multi-touch interface, full-featured browser and media experiences, " Abramsky wrote in a note to investors Monday.

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How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.

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The functionality varies with each browser, but now you can view a multi-screen post all on one screen and print it, too.

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Meanwhile Mozilla is about to see the launch of the first Firefox OS phones, and together with Samsung have announced work on a new browser engine, Servo, to take advantage of multi-core processors and next generation mobile technology.

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Namco joins a number of other game-makers trying to make multi-platform games, now that social games are spreading from browser to mobile, including everyone from the more traditional Electronic Arts to casual game-maker Bigpoint.

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Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.

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