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May 25 2010

How do you use push notification on your iPhone?

How do you use push notification on your iPhone? Apple released the push notification service as part of iPhone 3.0 and since then iPhone and iPod touch (and now iPad) users have been able to [...]


Apr 4 2010

Having trouble with push notifications on iPad? Tell us which app!

We’re getting a lot of reports from people who say they aren’t getting push notifications for their iPad apps, and we’re having similar problems ourselves. From productivity to games, there doesn’t seem to be a [...]


Jan 7 2010

Orbit Social Phonebook for iPhone Hands-on — TiPb @ CES 2010

Orbit aims to do for your iPhone what Syngergy does for Palm’s webOS — aggregate all your contacts and their status — but with an equal and opposite focus on notification management.

So, not only can [...]


Jan 7 2010

Orbit Social Phonebook for iPhone Hands-on — TiPb @ CES 2010

Orbit aims to do for your iPhone what Syngergy does for Palm’s webOS — aggregate all your contacts and their status — but with an equal and opposite focus on notification management.

So, not only can [...]


Jan 7 2010

Orbit Social Phonebook for iPhone Hands-on — TiPb @ CES 2010

Orbit aims to do for your iPhone what Syngergy does for Palm’s webOS — aggregate all your contacts and their status — but with an equal and opposite focus on notification management.

So, not only can [...]


Dec 18 2009

Boxcar 2.2 Push Notifications for iPhone Hits App Store

Boxcar just let us know Boxcar 2.2 [Free/in-app purchases - iTunes link] has been served up piping hot to the iPhone (and iPod touch) App Store. Here are some highlights:

Push for RSS feeds (powered by [...]


Oct 2 2009

Quick App Update: PushMail 2.0 Email Push Notification for iPhone

PushMail [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just gone 2.0. For those unfamiliar with PushMail, its a middleapp that creates an account for you to forward email, and when it’s alerted to that new email, it [...]


Sep 26 2009

Quick App Update: Boxcar 2.0 Push Notification for Twitter, Facebook, and Email — Via In-App Purchase

Boxcar [$2.99 + In-App Purchases - iTunes link], a push-enabler for iPhone and iPod touch originally launched with support for a couple of Twitter clients. Then it added a bunch more. As several Twitter clients [...]


Aug 17 2009

i.TV 2.0 Intros Push Notification, iTunes Download, and “Remote Control Framework” for iPhone

i.TV just let TiPb know they’ve submitted version 2.0 of their popular iPhone and iPod touch app to the iTunes App Store. What’s in store for us this time out?

Push Notification for TV shows
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Aug 11 2009

Quick App: PushMail for iPhone, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Push Notification Relay

PushMail [$4.99 - iTunes link] takes a different approach to working around the lack of push notifications for Gmail, Hotmail, and other email services on the iPhone. When you set up PushMail, you’re prompted to [...]


Aug 10 2009

Quick App: BargainBin App Store Price Watcher with Push Notification

BargainBin [Free - iTunes link] keeps an eye on App Store apps and lets you know about sales and price drops. So, if there’s an app out there you’re waiting to try, but are watching [...]


Aug 8 2009

UPDATED: Quick App: GPush iPhone Push Notifications for Gmail

UPDATE 2: GPush’s developers posted in the comments with the following info:

On Saturday August 8, 2009 GPush made it into the App store. We are currently experiencing a server issue and have temporarily [...]


Jul 16 2009

Quick App: Twitbit Push Notification Twitter Client for iPhone

Twitbit [$4.99 - iTunes link] is a Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch that provides built-in push notification for @mentions and direct messages (DMs).

For those of you still reading — those didn’t immediately [...]


Jul 14 2009

Quick App: Boxcar Push Notification for Tweetie and Twitterrific iPhone Twitter Clients

Boxcar [$1.99 - iTunes link] is almost more enabler than app. It only does one thing, but thus far it does it very, very well — it sends Push Notifications for Twitter @mentions and Direct [...]


Jul 14 2009

Is Apple Blocking Push Notification on Jailbroken iPhones?

148apps posted up a PR from a developer in the Czech Republic that states:

“When the Push based application such as NotifyMe requests an ID from APNS, the server responds within a second and [...]


Jul 9 2009

App Review: IM+ with Push for iPhone

IM+ Forum Review by llofte. For more Forum Reviews, see the TiPb iPhone App Store Forum Review Index!

IM+ is an IM client with push notification support for 10 networks, including Twitter. I use AIM, Facebook, [...]


Jul 7 2009

Quick App: Prowl Provides Push Notification for Growl on iPhone

Prowl ($2.99 - iTunes link) sends Growl alerts to your iPhone via Push Notification. That’s right, duck and cover, we’ve just found the nu-cu-lar option.

Growl is a well known 3rd party alert system for Mac [...]


Jul 7 2009

Jailbreak Users Still Have Problems with Push Notification?

Since the iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak has become available, and now with both purplera1n and redsn0w coming on line with iPhone 3GS Jailbreak solutions, we’ve heard rumblings about problems with Push Notifications not working, or not [...]


Jul 6 2009

Is Your iPhone Battery Life 20% Less With Push Notification?

Back when Apple re-introduced Push Notification at the iPhone 3.0 Sneak Preview Event, Scott Forstall claimed that, unlike background multitasking that could cause an 80% drop in battery life, Push Notification would only cause [...]


Jun 26 2009

IM+ 3.1 with Push Notification and Push Twitter Now in App Store

IM+ 3.1 [$5.99 - iTunes link] has hit the app store with support for push notifications. We wrote about the new version a few days ago, and for those longing for IM style push Twitter [...]