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We’ve Got All Your Bases Covered: Engage Your Customers on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and GCM
We've been busy, real busy. After introducing Location Messaging with the industry’s first capabilities for location history targeting at the beginning of the month, we have now finished polishing our support for Google Cloud Messaging and also unveiled our beta support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices—all available today. Urban Airship has entered into an alliance agreement with Microsoft to provide push messaging services for Windows Azure, with Windows Azure providing...
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Google Doubles Down on Messaging
Today at the I/O conference Google unveiled the next iteration of its Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, now called Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). There are some key differences as well as enhancements that we are sure will please both developers and app users: Multicast messages: in the same request you can now broadcast messages up to 1000 registration IDs at the same time Multiple senders: now multiple parties can send messages to the same app with one common registration...
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Scaling Urban Airship’s Messaging Infrastructure to Light Up a Stadium in One Second
More than two years ago we embarked on a journey to bring our push infrastructure to Android and tackle the world of high scalability for mobile apps. We’ve detailed some of our past achievements like C500k in past blog entries. We’ve more than quadrupled the performance reported in that post, and have moved on to address the rest of our infrastructure as we march towards supporting billions of connected devices. We’re now focused on finishing a massive rework of our messaging...
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Urban Airship Takes the Stage at the Tizen Developer Conference
Today Urban Airship is delivering a technical session at the Tizen Developer Conference to offer a demo and code-level preview of the upcoming Urban Airship library for Tizen and how the Helium push notification infrastructure will integrate to offer app developers a real-time messaging system. Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers. The Tizen SDK and API will allow developers to use web...
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