Push notifications are alerts that users can subscribe to when they visit a website. Typically, a pop-up menu will appear asking if the person wants to sign up for notifications. The user then has to ...

Browser notifications can be a great tool for staying up to date with what your favorite websites are doing. But if you’d rather not be prompted to check out the latest content from a site, or just ...

Google just added a new feature to the Chrome beta channel that promises to make the company’s browser even more like a standalone operating system. Web developers can now make use of two new ...

Push notifications are the alerts that apps send to your phone or computer even when the apps aren't open. Often appearing at the top or side of your screen, nearly every popular app uses push ...

Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser. It will allow users to receive notifications from websites without having to keep those sites open in their browser. The ...

Push notifications are messages that websites send to people who’ve opted to receive them. Unlike email notifications, push notifications appear as little pop-ups in the browser window. For example, ...

Programmers now can get servers to send alerts to Google's browser rather than requiring the browser itself to constantly check for them. Stephen Shankland worked at ...