App makers are out to capture our attention with reminders and alerts on our phones’ lock screens. Do we really need a reminder to post to Facebook? Joanna Stern proposes a notification bill of ...

The usual suspects are here, like TweetBot, Facebook Messenger, MessageMe, and Mailbox, though I recently decided to disable email push notifications because of the constant buzzing and battery drain.

In that way, push notifications may indeed be the smartphone’s defining feature. They are, if nothing else, a perfect avatar of how frustrating it can be to own one.

Don't want to use the Facebook app, but stick with it just for push notifications? You can now get Facebook alerts through Chrome! Click through to catch all the details.

And that doesn't even account for the unseen messages on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, because I turned off push notifications for all of the social media apps on my phone.

This week on The Verge’s Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn Tiffany and Ashley Carman tackle the complex issue of push notifications. Why do people turn them on, and how can the technology ...

Foreign governments likely spy on your smart phone usage, and now Senator Ron Wyden's office is pushing for Apple and Google to reveal how exactly it works. Push notifications, the dings you get ...

So today Facebook announced that after working with Google on its new mobile web alerts standard, m.facebook.com mobile web users can now opt to receive push notifications via Chrome.