"You heard that right, folks. People complaining that Apple’s very-much-delayed push notification service might be delayed again can all relax — Beejive 3.0, the fantastic new version with push support will be going live in about an hour or so from now. We exclusively gave you a look at Beejive for iPhone almost a year ago, and you have to give us some credit — we called it the best IM application for the iPhone, and were we right? Now think about push notifications and a whole slew of other additions and tweaks and you’re looking at a desktop-class IM application. We’ve been using a version with push for a pretty long time and can safely say it doesn’t disappoint. Here’s a breakdown of the new goodies and let us know when you try the new version!" - Andrew Trinh from Bookmarklet

Save yourself the trouble and use better IM software, like Beejive 3.0 for example. ;) - Andrew Trinh

I'm with Clark.... waiting for IM+ which should be soon - Simon Tracey

Anyone know if this will work in an intranet setting? - Brian Bufalo

Downloaded the Beejive update last night. Fantastic update. Push makes perfect! - Greg McBride from Nambu

There is no option for using Beejive as an intranet IM client. As for Skype, Beejive is yet to support Skype. - Andrew Trinh

Thanks Andrew! - Brian Bufalo

Push is a crappy workaround for no backgrounded apps. - Christopher A Carr

In my opinion push is a smart way of reducing memory, battery and processor consumption. - mustafa bayındır

Mustafa: Just don't run too many apps at the same time. - Christopher A Carr

I like how you no longer need to keep apps in the background but they screwed up battery efficiency. It's just as bad as if you would have backgrounded applications. - Andrew Trinh

On Android (and the same is the case with WebOS), I get unobtrusive notifications when messages come in. I get these notifications, because the IM app is still running while I'm doing something else... - Christopher A Carr

What I mean; If the computer/OS allows backgrounding without reducing resources then nop. Otherwise "any" number of backgrounded app. will consume "something". - mustafa bayındır

This was the first non-free app I purchased. Took me almost a year. - Mark Philpot

Though for some reason, I keep getting notifications saying X service disconnected. Isn't Beejive supposed to keep you connected all the time? - Mark Philpot

Make sure you've set your sessions time in the Settings to 24 hours. - Andrew Trinh

Beejive stopped working for me all of a sudden. It looks like their servers can't handle all the traffic or something. - Johnny Chadda

Beejive has returned but push notifications seem to be disabled. I'm hoping this isn't the same flop with push notifications as it was with MobileMe. - Andrew Trinh

I have received your comment as a push message:) - mustafa bayındır from IM

I'm getting push notifications back too! Although not all of them come through. - Andrew Trinh

It seems to have started working again now! - Johnny Chadda