This is why setting up push notifications for e-mail on your phone can be very beneficial.
App owners will receive push notifications whenever new content is uploaded and available for their viewing.
Push notifications can also be sent at rates of a thousand or more per second.
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And by embedding the push notifications in other Facebook notifications, Facebook would ensure they get read.
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It accesses contacts and sends push notifications just as I would expect of a native app.
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You can follow your favorite events and sports and get push notifications for event start times.
Coupon app Yowza already lets users opt-in to receiving push notifications when their favorite merchants add new deals.
Urban Airship - Improve customer engagement with push notifications, location-based marketing, and analytics.
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And iPhones coast-to-coast will overflow with push notifications blasting the latest trade rumors.
The interface is simple, clear and the software sophisticated in the way it utilizes iPhone sounds, GPS and push notifications.
Like the new Windows 8 app, it runs in the background, delivering push notifications even when you're looking at something else.
Like push notifications, but sends a notification straight from the app without needing a push notification server, perfect for an alarm, for instance.
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For advertisers, push notifications are much cheaper than SMS notifications, which are marked up to pennies a minute by carriers and network middlemen.
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The big drawback of course is that HTML5-based services are not enabled with push notifications, itself a lingering problem for many mobile web developers.
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There are a few new features, including push notifications, reminders and reoccurring tasks, but it's the dramatically smoother and speedier operation that's the real story here.
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Push notifications via the Facebook phone would be able to undercut the prices of virtually any SMS notification while providing advertisers access to a highly desirable demographic.
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For the time being, Google Now has no push notifications, which means you'll have to open the search app to see what it has in the queue for you.
WhatsApp Messenger for BlackBerry 10 provides a high quality messaging experience that utilizes real-time push notifications to alert you when you receive messages- even when the screen is locked.
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Social media management systems might offer push notifications to buyers when selected keywords start to trend on Twitter, enabling them to get a scoop on ads featuring those words.
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Crucially, for anyone that follows the world of HTML5 standards in mobile, it also announced that is web-based apps could enable push notifications a first for mobile HTML5 services.
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One complication on that front: Right now it is not possible to send push notifications through web based services on mobile devices, which are written in the standard known as HTML5.
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Last week, a social messaging app called Kik announced that an a HTML5-based web app platform it had created on top of its texting service could now send push notifications.
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The service can be employed across Android and iOS, implementing cloud data storage, leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer functionality, push notifications, and in-app purchases -- essentially exactly what OpenFeint once aimed to provide.
We should also mention that messages are pushed to all devices you're logged into, so you might want to get used to those push notifications if you carry around an iPad and an iPhone.
Something else that's been rolling out is a prompt asking if Netflix can send push notifications, which is used to notify users of things like new seasons of TV shows they've watched becoming available.
Push notifications are still the domain of text messages and native applications, and as such Tran is waiting for the W3C and other standards bodies to incorporate the relevant API (application programming interface) for web technologies.
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The PGA Championship App utilizes advanced push notifications to help fans keep track of their favorite players without having the app open and different push notifications utilize specific sounds, which highlight the nature of the alert.
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There are plenty of decent Twitter apps for iPhone, including the official version, but none seem to bundle the best of the best features (multiple timelines, smart gestures, native push notifications, customizable navigation) with Tweetbot's polished feel.
The Gold edition also keeps tabs on your upcoming flights, alerting you to gate changes, time changes and the like as they're reported -- push notifications here work excellently, except when information isn't delivered to Worldmate from the airlines fast enough.
It does say, however, that RIM has fully revoked Kik's access to push notifications and the BlackBerry SDK, so it's going to be tough for these guys to stay relevant on Bolds and Curves across the land unless RIM reverses its decision.
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