The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...

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If you get notifications alerting you about a live match score, some killer online deal that is about to end soon — or any such time-sensitive information popping up in a banner on the home or lock ...