Tag Archives: Notifications

Revamped notifications and widgets coming to iOS 5?

Posted on May 27, 2011 by admin

There’s quite a lot of buzz about what surprises are in store for the upcoming WWDC 2011, as covered earlier today and yesterday. Besides new tidbits about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” there’s the absence of a new … Continue reading →

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Engagement Wars: To Pull Users Back Apps Push Notifications

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

Recently, the name of the game for developers has switched from downloads to engagement, as Android Market and Apple’s App Store tweaked their ranking rules and Apple in particular started cracking down on incentivized install campaigns. The takeaway for developers … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Portable Workspace, push notifications & other apps discovered

Posted on April 15, 2011 by admin

It was not long ago that Windows 8 build 7850 leaked to the web. While this build is an early compilation of the platform, there is a lot under the hood that remains to be discovered. On that front, users … Continue reading →

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Hotmail gets IE9 Pinned Sites Notifications

Posted on April 1, 2011 by admin

So back when IE9 beta launched last year, Hotmail was quick to jump on the bandwagon and provided jumplist support in Windows 7. However with IE9, jumplist is only one part of the new  "Pinned Sites" feature. The other part, … Continue reading →

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Hotmail adds notifications for IE9 in Windows 7

Posted on March 31, 2011 by admin

Microsoft is working hard to make cloud services more like desktop applications. One way they are doing that is by making Hotmail a little more accessible by creating an icon you can pin to your taskbar showing how many unread … Continue reading →

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