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iPhone push notifications: dead and buried, or waiting in the wings?
The $64,000 question: what happened to Apple's push notification service? Dan Moren has some ideas—and only a few of them are ridiculous.
Hey Apple, You Don’t Own My Contacts
Hey Apple, You Don’t Own My Contacts
technologizer.com — Allow me to vent here for a second. As you may have read in my recent post... about Mac products at Target, I have been in the midst of reloading things for my attempt at installing Windows 7 on the MacBook Pro. This included a wipe of OS X for good ... (more) Hey Apple, You Don’t Own My Contacts
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In search of Push
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Wherefore art thou, Push? Macworld has gone in search of the much-awaited iPhone feature that would let applications get their own notifications even while not necessarily active (so apps like Twitterific could have a little red number on them showing the number of unread tweets, and so on). But ...

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