Customizing the display of a mobile computing device

In a mobile computing device that includes a display device, content generating applications, and content consuming applications, wherein at least some of the content consuming applications may display content on the display device, the mobile computing device receiving content from one or more associated networks, the received content originating from a plurality of content generating applications, a method for efficiently displaying content so as to conserve the power resources of the mobile computing device, the method comprising:

• an act of storing generated content;
• an act of receiving registrations from content consuming applications on the mobile computing device, the content consuming applications indicating which portion of the generated content they will consume;
• and
• a step for updating the content used by some of the content consuming applications with modified portions of content, the modified portions of content being content the content consuming applications have indicated they will consume, so as to update rendering of content on the display device of the mobile computing device.

A computer program product for implementing, in a mobile computing device that includes a display device, content generating applications, and content consuming applications, wherein at least some of the content consuming applications may display content on the display device, the mobile computing device receiving content from one or more associated networks, the received content originating from a plurality of content generating applications, a method for efficiently displaying content so as to conserve the power resources of the mobile computing device, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, that when executed at the client system, cause the mobile computing device to perform the method, including the acts of:
• storing generated content;
• receiving registrations from content consuming applications, the registrations indicating which portion of the generated content the content consuming applications will consume;
• sending notifications to at least some of the content consuming applications when a portion of generated content for which they have registered is modified;
• and
• sending the modified portion of generated content to the notified content consuming applications for subsequent rendering of the content on the display device of the mobile computing device.