Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.

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Clearly, that "e-reader" is really a 10-inch Galaxy Tab: It's making a video call (not something you'd do on, say, a Kindle) and it has the same row of buttons on the bottom bezel as the smaller 7-inch Tab.

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