In terms of other services, 4 trillion notifications have been sent in Notification Center.

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Your Facebook notifications work with Notification Center in Mountain Lion, and you can even update your Facebook status from within Notification Center.

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You can customize which apps send you notifications, the type of notification you receive, and how many items are shown in Notification Center.

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In iOS 5, Apple has revisited the idea of iPhone widgets -- differentiating them more from other iPhone apps -- in the drop-down notification center.

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Facebook and Twitter are integrated with Notification Center so you can receive notifications when someone sends you a message or mentions you in a post or Tweet.

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Mountain Lion streamlines the presentation of notifications, and with Notification Center you can see all your notifications from OS X and third party apps in one convenient place.

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There will better integration with the notification center.

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The lack of a notification center, combined with an interface that periodically overwhelms function with form (such as the highly stylized but limited email view), only compounds problems if it's genuinely vital that you spot and deal with an emergency in minutes.

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Unfortunately, the Lukwerks cameras do not support panning or zooming, automatic notification of a call center is on the drawing board.

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