I believe badge is the bit of information that appears next to the icon for the app on the home screen. An example is when a news app gets new stories, the badge pops up displaying that number of new items.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31/01/2013, at 2:23, "Bill Gallik" <wfgal...@charter.net> wrote: > Keith, > > Don't feel badly about asking, I for one am glad you have because I too am a > bit confused as to the various subtleties between the three forms. And > frankly I don't find the brief explanations in the SETTINGS dialogs > truthfully all that helpful; especially regarding "batch." I see one list > member was kind enough to explain alerts and banners which truthfully is > reasonably explained in the SETTINGS dialogs, but whatever is meant by > "batch" escapes my meager ability to understand. I certainly know what a > batch in typical English means, but just how does it apply to information > being displayed on an iPhone? > ---------------- > Holland's Person, Bill > - "Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?" > - George Carlin, 1937 - 2008 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.