Notifications are a helpful feature on any device. They can inform you about important events, let you know when you receive messages, remind you of plans you've made, and provide a brief preview with ...

Having a shared coffee maker in the workplace is both a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to have constant access to coffee, but it can be frustrating to find the coffee pot emptied right as you walk in ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been expanded today with a unified alerts platform that gives app developers the ability to send push notifications to users on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire hardware ...

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This week we will tame things down a little, our goal last week was to use all of the apps, no matter how complicated it got. This time, we want to use IF, but keep it simple, looking at just one of ...

Amazon's message delivery service can be used to send SMS text messages and email messages, among many other things. As you work with the various AWS services, one of the things that you are sure to ...

One of the biggest changes in Apple’s iOS 5, unveiled Monday, is a welcome overhaul to the iOS’s relatively simple notification system. Right now, new alerts pop up in a modal dialog box that ...