On June 9th, Apple Inc announced it had intentions to provide a viable solution to background processing on the iPhone and iPod touch. While taking a dig or two at Microsoft’s ‘Task Manager’ stating clearly that this wasn’t the way forward, WWDC08 also saw Apple announce it’s Push Notification Service. A solution which would save your battery, and keep a persistent connection to any applications which needed it. A service, which was promised, but is yet to be implemented … (more…)