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Urban Airship to gain Tello's PassTools, look to Passbook

by Steven Sande (Dec 4th, 2012)

The in-app push messaging company with a fun name, Urban Airship, has acquired a company named Tello that will help Airship to gain a foothold in the creation of passes, loyalty cards, tickets and coupons that work with Apple's iOS 6 Passbook app. Tello developed a platform called PassTools ...

Urban Airship and TUAW want to give you a ride on a real airship

by Steven Sande (Jun 6th, 2012)

Urban Airship is the name behind a lot of successful mobile apps, providing push notifications, "rich push" (adding HTML, video, and more to push messages), reports and metrics on user engagement, and in-app purchase support. The Portland-based development tool provider wants to take a TUAW ...

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 trademarks AirDrop

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 20th, 2011)

Apple introduced AirDrop as one new feature included in Mac OS X Lion. AirDrop is a file sharing service that lets you easily send files to other nearby AirDrop users. Apple now owns the trademark for the service, apparently acquiring it from Urban Airship, Inc. The trademark application was ...

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 ...