Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides an advertisement management application resident on a mobile device such as a cell phone. Advantageously, the advertisement management application is able to deliver advertisements to a user, during high periods of latency while the user is waiting for content from a network.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising: receiving user-defined settings to control the rendering of content by a browser; receiving content from a web-server, the content defining a web-page; receiving default settings from the web-server to control how the content is to be rendered by the browser; and rendering the content in the browser in accordance with the user-defined settings.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides method, comprising: aggregating scheduling information for members of a social community to define aggregated scheduling information; discovering matches in the aggregated scheduling information; and notifying members of the social community of the matches.