10 Intriguing Product Updates From Google I/O 2013

New Features For Google Cloud Messaging

Announced last year, Google Cloud Messaging pushes data to different devices. New features announced at the I/O conference for the service include persistent connections to dynamically send messages to different devices, increased capabilities to support two-way traffic between applications and servers, and synchronized notifications. According to Hugo Barra, Google's vice president of product management for Android, the system sees high volumes of traffic with more than 1 billion message pushes per day.