Boxcar expanding push notifications to the desktop via the Web

Boxcar is heading to the desktop courtesy of your browser. It's bringing the custom, real-time push notifications that brought it fame on iOS to the Web using WebSockets. Essentially what Boxcar will do now is pipe the notifications that you receive on your iOS device concurrently to its website for reading and clearing in the browser in real-time. They're using the same technique as Twitter does with its current Web app to provide instant updates, and will even pop up a little notification when you get a new message, which is currently limited to the Boxcar browser tab.

This is just the start for Boxcar, and now that it's migrated from just an iOS app to a Web-based service, the company plans to roll out notifications for "every device imaginable." If you haven't checked out what the free Boxcar can do to revolutionize notifications on your iPhone and now the Web, there's no time like the present.

Tags: apps, Boxcar, iOS, notifications, push, utilities, Web