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iPhone firmware 2.2.1: push notifications?

According to RussianiPhone.ru, the iPhone 2.2.1 beta firmware apparently contains support for both push notifications as well as over-the-air MobileMe syncing with Notes support. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, push notifications allow you to receive notifications pertaining to a specific application (e.g. instant messanging) on your mobile device without actually having the entire application running in [...]

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Select iPhone developers receive Push Notification API

If you can remember back to the WWDC coverage, we were told of a Push Notification Service that would allow users to maintain a constant connection without having to be always running the particular app. The Push Notification Service would have a middleman of sorts and when information or data is available it would then let [...]

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