While it still receives messages, e-mail and notifications, it doesn't actively alert me to the fact.

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Democrats also tried to strip the IRS of money being used to mail taxpayers notifications of their tax rebates, but that amendment also failed.

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Mail-in parental notifications will cost businesses money, pointed out Arthur B.

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This is why setting up push notifications for e-mail on your phone can be very beneficial.

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Google's computers automatically detect and sort that type of semi-trash e-mail into three categories -- bulk, notifications and forums.

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Account and security settings also make it easy for you to control digital pan, tilt and zoom of cameras, set up motion zones for individual cameras, and create and manage e-mail and mobile-phone motion alerts or desktop notifications of important events.

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Apple has eliminated all (valid) complaints about iOS (notifications, computer dependency and the anemic mail application being the biggest ones), launched a free mail, contacts and calendar server for all iOS and Lion users, and promoted iOS devices to be computer-independent, all while delivering the biggest concession from the music industry we have seen so far in a side-note.

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Apple programs bundled with OS X, such as Mail, Calendar, FaceTime and the App Store, use Notifications right now, but the feature -- like several other Mountain Lion additions -- will really come into its own as third-party programs start to support it.

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