Blackberry’s push notifications are now available to any developer who’d like to stick ‘em in any Blackberry app. Since battery-friendly push is the best part of owning a Blackberry, this update sounds fantastic. More »
Apple hasn’t added push for Gmail to its Mail app on the iPhone, but Google has worked around that via Google Sync. All you have to do is set it up as a Microsoft Exchange account. At last! More »
According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting it, according to his testing: More »
Beating established Twitter apps like Tweetie to the punch (push?), iTwitter is the first one to deliver push notifications. But push only works if the person @replying or DMing you is using iTwitter too. It’s free, though. [ReadWriteWeb] More »
My biggest disappointment with iPhone 3.0 is there’s still no push Gmail. (Probably due some to contractual BS, but whatever.) GPush is a 99-cent app that almost fixes it by sending you push notifications whenever you get a new message. More »
Best non-IM use of iPhone 3.0′s push notifications yet: Prowl is a $US3 app that pushes Growl notifications from your Mac to your phone. Growl‘s a global notifier that plugs into everything from BitTorrent apps to iTunes to Mail. More »
Tapulous has issued an update to their Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game which includes working push notifications, despite the fact that iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t officially available for two more days. More »
Apple just sent out an email to MobileMe subscribers to let them know of some new(ish) features. The biggest bullet point is the fact that push is back.
