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Whether the idea of push notification for the iPhone Facebook app makes you want to do a happy dance, or just run screaming for the delete button, according to a recently published note, you won't be getting it in the 98% completed Facebook 3.0

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.

With the release of iPhone Firmware 2.2.1, many were left wondering what had become of the Push notification system that Apple had announced at the Worldwide Developer's Conference back in June.

Is Apple at it again? According to a Czech developer, they may have blocked the popular push notifications on unlocked iPhone's.

It's Day 3 of my week-long look at the new iPhone OS 3.0 and some updated apps with new features. We've looked at Push notifications and Spotlight already and today we'll look closer at text messaging (or SMS).

While a variety of sources have published a story accusing the iPhone 3.0 software of broadcasting instant messages to random iPhones, in reality this exploit affects only users who have hacked their phone and made it vulnerable.