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First Push Twitter App: IM+

First Push Twitter App: IM+

AIM and BeejiveIM beat Shape Services to the release of Push Notification instant messaging by a couple days, but Shape Services has a trick up their sleeves. Actually, the company has a couple. First, it pushes your Twitter account to your iPhone. Second, it pushes Skype voicemail.

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BeejiveIM 3.0 Just Went LIve - Check Out New Features Here

BeejiveIM 3.0 Just Went LIve - Check Out New Features Here

BeejiveIM has always been an expensive instant messaging client. It is also extremely powerful, supporting AIM/MobileMe, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, Facebook MySpace, ICQ and Jabber. Thus far it has circumvented the lack of background processes in the iPhone OS by pushing incoming messages to your e-mail inbox. It wasn't the most elegant solution but it worked well. Now BeejiveIM holds the distinction of being the first instant messaging app with push notifications to be available in the App Store.

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Is It Too Early To Label iPhone OS 3.0's Marquee Feature As "Fail Notifications"?

Is It Too Early To Label iPhone OS 3.0's Marquee Feature As "Fail Notifications"?

We all should be enjoying the impressive power of Push Notifications right now on a plethora of super cool apps which have been enabled with these new alerts. Unfortunately, there is no killer app for these yet. Instead, we have a hodgepodge of little more than a dozen apps like Star Defense, AP Mobile, Tap Tap Revenge and Textfree Unlimited, among others. While all are quality apps, none of them has wowed us.

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Follow Us On Twitter And Get Notified About All New Push, Mapping And Peer To Peer Apps

Follow Us On Twitter And Get Notified About All New Push, Mapping And Peer To Peer Apps

We've had a great response to our Applists so we've decided to make it a little easier to find out what's going on. We're going to begin tweeting every new app we add to our definitive lists on Push Notifications, Mapping and Peer To Peer apps. All the apps on these lists make use of iPhone OS 3.0's newest features and, so far, there aren't as many of them as you might think. However, they're trickling in all the time and we're adding them to the lists as they debut.

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Hidden Gems: Keep An Eye On These Apps

Hidden Gems: Keep An Eye On These Apps

This week we'll look at a couple apps to keep in mind as you upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 or consider buying an iPhone 3G S. We'll also check out DoGood, an app which will make you feel good about the world. We'll also look at Global Impact, which won't.

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Where Is AT&T On MMS And Tethering?

Where Is AT&T On MMS And Tethering?

Around the world, 22 carriers will be offering tethering plans so iPhone users can connect their computers to the Internet using the phone's connection and 29 carriers will be ready to send MMS messages when iPhone OS 3.0 launches next week. AT&T is absent from both these lists.

Ian
Hidden Gems: You Got Social Networking In My App Discovery

Hidden Gems: You Got Social Networking In My App Discovery

AppConnect adds social networking features to app bargain hunting, bringing us that much closer to app discovery nirvana. Also, in this week's column, we'll take a look at recently updated must-have utility that's free until June 5 and a great game for kids.

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