Upcoming tweak “BadgerTweak” allows users to view notifications by tapping the app’s notification badge on the SpringBoard. The tweak is still in development but, according to the tweak’s official Twitter account, it’s coming soon to Cydia. » Upcoming Cydia Tweak “BadgerTweak” For Quickly Viewing Notifications [jailbreak]

Jan-Michael Cart has created a great concept video outlining various improvements made to Notification Center.

1. Persistent Badge: iOSs current notification system lacks a way of alerting the user that there are unread messages within Notification Center. The only way to know anything about your notifications is to actually enter Notification Center. Now, the persistent badge lists the number of unread notifications by displaying a small badge in the status bar. It is system-wide and can be seen whenever the status bar is onscreen. » iOS 5 Notification Center Concept

There are a lot of really great concepts for iPhone notifications, but they all seem to stray away from what is the look and feel of iOS. So my idea is pretty simple, Andreas Hellqvist have created a concept using only the existing graphical resources of iOS, short of a few few exceptions. But Andreas Hellqvist still feels that they are in bounds of the visual philosophy. » New Notification Concept For iOS!

Yesterday apple posted the second beta of the iPhone 2.1 software to developers for testing. Some developers are reporting they have since recieved the tools from apple to create background apps. Apple told us it would not officially be released to devs until September. For a more detailed explanation of how the push notification works read on. » Apple seeds some developers tools for making background-notification apps.