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Here's a fun bit of comics news that may well get lost in the deluge of this week's high profile Comic Con announcements.

Apple has gone out of their way to point out the cons of multi-tasking background applications - a claimed 80% reduction in battery life while on standby with a single 3rd party IM client enabled. Push Notification, likewise, has been promoted by Apple as providing a single point of coordination for 3rd party alerts routed through servers on Apple's end.

Question: what's better than syncing iTunes using a USB cable and but yet isn't allowed by Apple? You got it: wireless syncing. And that's why we're saddened to hear that the originally named app 'Wi-Fi Sync' was rejected from the App Store. Fear not though, because it's now up for sale on the Cydia Store.