First iPhone Push Applications Take Root

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.




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
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