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Back when the iPhone 3.0 OS was first announced, one of the biggest features was that applications would feature push notification. Since the iPhone lacks multitasking, this would allow a program to act like your email and push updates/IMs/messages to your phone without it actually being active. Last night, AOL released the OS 3.0 version of AIM and we’re all very excited here at Gearfuse. Push IM is something I’ve longed for, especially since I’m always communicating via AIM. Both the free and paid versions have it and so far, it works pretty well. In the coming weeks, I’d expect to see a lot more push apps available.

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So yesterday, Apple held one of its little private conferences where they go over some sick new product or service. This time, it was the iPhone 3.0 OS. So much stuff was covered that there’s no time for jokes. Let’s dive right into this shit:
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So after yesterday’s asstabulous keynote from Apple, iWork ‘09 hit the web faster than you can say “Hack the Planet!” If you’d like to score a copy of the office productivity suite for yourself, simply fire up your favorite Bit Torrent client and grab the torrent off, oh let’s see, pretty much any torrent site on the ‘net and you’re good to go. Unless you plan on buying a new 17-inch Macbook Pro, this is as good as Macworld gets.

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It’s always nice to hear about video games getting updated so often now that online gaming is the way to go. EA has announced that they are going to be releasing a large upgrade to their game Battlefield 2142 in the spring of this year. Take a look at what EA has said about the update:

Three new maps provide the setting for the Booster Pack. High up in the Alps the EU uses launch pods to launch an assault on a PAC Titan docking harbour on the map Port Bavaria. Bridge at Remagen, the scene for one of WWII’s major battles, is once again the setting for intense battles as both sides fight to secure the bridge. Finally, night has fallen when the EU launches their assault on the city in the Liberation of Leipzig.

So while that doesn’t mean too much to you if you don’t play Battlefield 2142, if you do play, you are probably pretty pumped and anxious for the release date to roll around. So just to count the updates, there will be a total of 10 new unlockables. There will be three new maps, ten more awards for you to win, two new ground vehicles (faster, better, stronger), and finally the pods will be revamped to allow your infantry units to move around the maps in a more efficient fashion. — Nik Gomez

Battlefield 2142 booster pack revealed [GamersCircle]

Good news, in addition to the new maps coming out on Thursday, Gears of War will have whole slew of game update tomorrow January 10.

• Fixed aspect ratio distortion when using VGA cable with 4:3 displays at resolutions higher than 640×480
• Fixed voice issue with new players joining Player Match games in progress
• Players can now get the Achievement for “Dish Best Served Cold” when using Troika turret to kill RAAM
• Fixed rare situation where host could loop countdown and never start match
• Fixed rare situation where players could get stuck after chainsawing in multiplayer
• Reduced Grenade Tag melee distance
• Enabled “Strict� NAT check on host to prevent possible connection issues
• Optimized server browser queries to return results more quickly and prevent scroll bars from hiding quality of service icons
• Reduced number of possible revives in Execution to match Warzone
• Removed host name from Ranked match server browser
• Disabled security cameras in Ranked matches
• Ranked matches now require balanced teams (3v3 or 4v4)
• Increased penalty for quitting a Ranked match to -50 points
• Added additional cheat detection code
• Additional housekeeping updates

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This just might be the feature that saves the PS3: the firmware updates. Sony has just released the update version 1.32, which doesn’t do anything really radical, but keeps moving forward with bugs and problems. As Sony has said, the updates improves the network performance of the system software. Browser updates? WiFi faster? Not very specific Sony. So as these small updates continue to roll out, the PS3 will get better and better. Hopefully, after the bugs are ironed out, Sony will be able to add new features to the PS3. It has so much potential hardware-wise, it only makes sense that as time passes the PS3 will only get better. Games get better graphics, the Sixaxis get better integration, and Blu-Ray takes off. Too bad it takes time. — Nik Gomez

New Sony PS3 Firmware 1.32 [I4U]

Mozilla has released an update for the best browser in the world: Firefox! The update version is 2.0.0.1 and as you might guess by this minute version change, not too much has visibly changed in the browser. There have been some security updates that fix some bugs Firefox has. The update has also added Microsoft Vista support (save for a couple caveats), which should be launching January 21, 2007. With the recent announcement that Firefox has reached the 25% market penetration, Mozilla cannot afford to have holes in their amazing browser which has gained its fame from its air-tight security and easy implementation of extensions and themes (add-ons). Go ahead, update Firefox and keep your computer safe. – Nik Gomez

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 [via The Unofficial Apple Weblog]