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Urban Airship delivers 5 billionth push notification

by Mike Schramm (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Urban Airship is a company that works with developers to power and send out push notifications through the various applications on your iPhone, and it recently announced that the five billionth push notification left the company's servers. The company has been sending push notifications ...

Apple to redesign iOS notification system

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 11th, 2011)

Cult of Mac is reporting that Apple is planning a revamp to its iOS notification system. iOS's current notification system, which is used for everything from text messages to push notifications, has remained virtually unchanged since the introduction of the original iPhone in 2007. The current ...

Twitter for iOS gets push notifications, bug fixes, UI enhancements

by Steven Sande (Nov 16th, 2010)

There's an update to the official Twitter app for iOS. The new version 3.2 adds push notifications, so you can be pinged whenever someone mentions your Twitter handle, and also adds full support for iOS 4.2. On the iPad, there are UI improvements that include panel animation and a dismiss feature. ...

Google Voice for iPhone is finally out on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2010)

Turns out, when Apple announced it was a day you'd never forget, maybe it wasn't talking about The Beatles. Last we heard, Google Voice was expected on the App Store "soon" ... and now here it is. Apple has relented in the battle to allow Google Voice functionality on the iPhone, leaving Google open ...

Google app gets updated with push notification for Gmail

by Keith M (Aug 23rd, 2010)

After many months of users having to resort to third-party or jailbroken apps to get push notifications from Gmail, Google has finally released an updated version of its iPhone app that now handily does that all for you. The update -- which is now freely available in the App Store -- allows you ...

Mail Notifier subscription service for the iPhone

by TJ Luoma (Apr 1st, 2010)

When Apple introduced ActiveSync and Push email support for iPhone email, there were two reactions: 1) "Yay!" and 2) "What's this going to mean for battery life?" Any sort of "push" technology will reduce the battery life, but it is a trade-off many people are willing to make, especially when it ...

Found Footage: Urban Airship's AirMail takes push notifications to the next level

by Erica Sadun (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Here's an exclusive TUAW video preview of Urban Airship's latest product, AirMail. Like their other products, AirMail is powered by a precompiled drop-in library that developers add to their iPhone applications. AirMail adds a whole new spin on push notifications by transforming them from ...

Push for Gmail: it's here, it works, and it's limited

by Michael Jones (Sep 22nd, 2009)

If you use Gmail, you have something to be excited about today, because you can finally have new email messages pushed directly to your iPhone when they arrive. For many users, however, their first response is "it's about time!" and others have even gone as far as saying "it's finally here, no ...

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