Our smartphone apps are constantly clamoring for our attention—whether it’s a high score that needs beating or a group chat that needs responding to, there’s often a constant stream of pings and ...

If you get notifications alerting you about a live match score, some killer online deal that is about to end soon — or any such time-sensitive information popping up in a banner on the home or lock ...

The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...