This ‘LinkedIn for emergencies’ startup is on track for 2.5M users

"The vast majority of organizations put their emergency information on paper," Summers says. "This is an opportunity to leverage networking technology for safety."

Facebook testing new notification sounds — we hate it already

Social networking titan Facebook has started testing a new sound for whenever a user receives a notification. It's pretty annoying, honestly.

mBlox: app developers, here’s how to revive old apps (and 30K free messages to help)

You built the app. Everyone came, and you were over the moon. But now, months later, no-one is opening your app, and you're pulling out your hair.

LinkedIn adds notifications for comments, likes, invitations, & more

Professional social network LinkedIn has added real-time notifications to let you know when people comment or like a post, send an invitation to connect, and more, the company announced today.

Gmail for iOS gets notifications updates, keeps you logged in

Google updated its iOS application for Gmail today, which has been widely criticized for not having as much functionality as its Web and Android counterparts.

The update now allows you to e-mail using the “send as” feature and provides new …

Apple testing iCloud website notifications, but why?

Apple is currently testing a notification system for its iCloud web service via iCloud.com, according to a MacRumors report.

The notifications look pretty much like they do on iPads and iPhones running iOS 5.0 or higher, and presumably, its how …

How a few simple push notifications helped data shrinking app Onavo go viral

One of the great things about Onavo, the hot mobile app that compresses your iPhone’s data, is that most of its magic happens in the background. But while that makes Onavo a breeze to use, it also makes it easy …

WordPress’ new notifications look very familiar if you were recently on Google+

Think you’re seeing your Google+ notifications bar on WordPress? Nope, not a browser glitch, the blogging platform has integrated the same look and feel for users logged into the WordPress site.

The company announced the new notifications today in a …

iOS 5 available for all iPhone users October 12 with over 200 new features

Update: iOS 5 is now available for download.

Apple announced today its latest mobile operating system update, iOS 5, will be available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners to download on October 12.

Today’s Apple event had …

Facebook tests new condensed email notifications without consent

Facebook is testing new email notifications that summarize all profile activity, reports Inside Facebook.

The company will begin testing the new summary email on users who currently generate a large number of notification emails. Those in the test will also …

Apple iOS 5 features earthquake warnings for Japanese iPhone users

The next version of Apple’s iOS software will include an earthquake warning notification system for Japanese iPhone owners, according to 9to5Mac.

After the damaging earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year, Apple decided it was time to hook its popular …