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Apple starts testing push notifications

Apple this week is testing push notifications in the Associated Press app ahead of the iPhone OS 3.0 launch. [via Roughly Drafted] Seth at Computerworld says: “It looks pretty much like the old App, except now you can choose to receive breaking news just like you’d receive an SMS message.” MacLife has screenshots of the [...]

AT&T memo: how to sell iPhone against Palm Pre

A new document is circulating around AT&T stores, and on PreCentral.net: Want more evidence that the Pre release is imminent?  How about AT&T sending a document around their internal network for employees to bone-up on some anti-Pre, pro-iPhone talking points …and then holding some in-store seminars for employees to make sure they get the message? [...]

Chance to win free iTunes money, Macbook Pro and more

Want to win a free $10,000 iTunes gift card, iPod Touch, Time Capsule and Macbook Pro? Yep, thought so. Apple today added to the front page of its app stores (desktop + mobile) to announce it is close to reaching 1 billion app sales. Apple’s contest rules make it very clear you can download an [...]

Google mobile Web site design improves

Google just released improvements to its web interface for iPhone and Android. The improvements include: Faster load times for actions such as opening an e-mail or searching Ability to read Gmail over a flaky or non-existent network connection Floating bar appears so you can manage multiple e-mails at the same time. Bar floats on the [...]

SuperBall update: create your own level, etc.

SuperBall 2 is now SuperBall 3 with a free update released today. SuperBall is a brick breaker game by Spiffyware and today’s update brings it to version 3.0. The update includes: Different shapes New particle effects A level creator A “Detonation” level set.