Pulse is an app for Android[1] and the iPad tablet computer, released in 2010. The application, which displays news from multiple RSS feeds in a single page, was temporarily removed from the App Store on June 8, 2010, hours after it was praised by Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs at WWDC 2010, when The New York Times complained to Apple Inc. about the app pulling content from its feed, even when the feed was in use by other apps in the App Store. Apple complied with the request; the app was again approved for and appeared in the App Store later the same day after it removed the feed from The New York Times.[2][3]
Pulse was also the CPU load monitor application included with the BeOS. It was a staple part of demos showing off the "pervasive multithreading" in the operating system as it also offered checkboxes to switch off individual processors in a multi-processor system. It famously allowed the user to switch off the last remaining processor, at which point the system would (obviously) freeze. This feature was removed in later versions of the BeOS.