Neowin News Feed for: Notifications

Windows Phone 8 notifications center and UI changes appear in leaked screenshots

Andy Weir — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:13:37 +0100

A series of leaked screenshots appear to reveal a new notifications center in Windows Phone 8, along with various UI changes, including the ability to close background tasks on the multitasking pane. Read more...

Microsoft updates complaint feature on Xbox Live, will notify you if action is taken

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:14:20 +0100

Microsoft has announced it is now sending notifications to Xbox Live users if any actions have been taken based on complaints those users may have send to Microsoft. Read more...

Tweak your Gmail notifications center and experience

Steven Parker — Sun, 26 May 2013 09:53:43 +0100

This week Google updated the notifications center and alerts to a richer, more modern experience. Although this feature is enabled by default in Chrome 28 Beta, you can also enable it in Chrome 27. Read more...

New Notifications and Notification Center live on Google Chrome Beta

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:53 +0100

New and improved Notifications are now live on Google Chrome beta builds. These bring new features and come alongside a long-expected Notification Center that lets you adjust notification sources. Read more...

Cross-platform notification center Unification now available on Windows8/RT

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:36:57 +0100

Unification is finally available in the Windows Store. The app gives users a cross-platform notification center for some of their apps. The app is also present in the Windows Phone Store. Read more...

Microsoft unveils Live Apps that show info on your lock screen

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:35:23 +0000

Microsoft just unveiled their brand new Windows Phone 8 and the new Live Apps that bring information directly to your lock screen to keep you up to date. We've seen this with the Bing lockscreen Read more...

Lock-screen and new notification icons shown on WP8?

Jake Durasamy — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:44:12 +0100

Notifications seem to be a concern to Microsoft for Windows Phone 8, so much that lock-screen notifications may be introduced with a set of new icons to alert users of outstanding alerts. Read more...

Microsoft rolls out desktop notifications for Hotmail

Brad Sams — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:54:42 +0100

Microsoft is rolling out a new update to its Hotmail service that allows users who pin Hotmail to their desktop to receive desktop notifications when new mail arrives. Read more...

Rumor: Could this be iOS 5's notification system?

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:02:28 +0100

Apple’s WWDC conference is set to start very shortly, where the company will detail the iCloud cloud music service, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and also the next version of iOS: iOS 5. What TechCrunch... Read more...

Revamped notifications and widgets coming to iOS 5?

Denis Wong — Sat, 28 May 2011 04:28:59 +0100

There's quite a lot of buzz about what surprises are in store for the upcoming WWDC 2011, as covered earlier today and yesterday. Besides new tidbits about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion," there's... Read more...

Apple to re-design the iOS notification system [Update]

Colby Swandale — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:22:28 +0000

An anonymous tip picked up by Cult of Mac says that Apple is planning on buying out a small development firm to head up integrating its notification system into the iOS family. The current system... Read more...

Google adds email notifications to Wave

Benjamin Rubenstein — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:56 +0000

Since Google launched Wave back in May 2009, one of the biggest complaints has been the lack of tie-in to email. For a new technology like Wave to catch on, users need to have some... Read more...

Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:25:41 +0000

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Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog. We've gotten a few questions recently about the fact that our latest WGA Notifications package sends install telemetry when installed or canceled. Given... Read more...

Microsoft's WGA Notifications Service Goes Live

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:40:52 +0100

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Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications service has moved out of pilot testing and will now reach out and touch millions of mainstream Windows XP users in the coming months. WGA is software distributed through... Read more...