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BlackBerry 10.2 leaked, respond to SMS from the notification

A leaked build of BlackBerry OS 10.2 is providing a look at where BlackBerry’s smartphone software is heading. And the future looks kind of good… assuming BlackBerry can keep customers and shareholders placated long enough to actually deliver its next-gen operating system. It hasn’t been a good month for BlackBerry. The company’s stock price has […]

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This is what Paranoid Android’s Halo notification/multitasking looks like (video)

The Paranoid Android development team is working on a new tool called Halo which completely rethinks the way Android handles notifications and multitasking. Halo is inspired by Facebook’s “chat heads” feature which lets you see and respond to incoming Facebook chat messages from any app without closing the window. But Halo works with every app that […]

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Paranoid Android teases Halo: It’s like Facebook chat heads, but for any app with notifications

One of the most interesting features of Facebook Home for Android is the Chat Heads notification system. Instead of showing an alert in your status bar every time you get a new message from someone you’re chatting with, a picture of that person will pop up on your screen and stay on the screen no […]

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Rich notification support now baked into Google Chrome, coming to more web apps?

Google has been testing a new feature that lets web apps send rich notifications to your web browser. Now rich notificaitons have graduated to the stable channel of Google Chrome, which means you could start to see more websites take advantage of the feature. A handful of Google apps including Google Calendar have supported rich […]