RBS and Natwest have recently launched a Blackberry smart phone app, providing their customers with another means of connecting to thier banking services. This app builds on the success of their iPhone and iPad apps released earlier this year and keeps them ahead of the competition as many banks are still to enter properly into [...]
22 November 2011
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HSBC are planning on providing a new text message alert service next month for all of it’s customers who currently have some form of overdraft facility. When released in June 2011, this service will act as a warning system for customers who are nearing their overdraft limit. The service is free to setup on your [...]
6 May 2011
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Kaspersky Lab has today announced that Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 is now available through Google’s Android Market. A lifelong license for one device costs £5.95. Owners of Android-based smartphones can now get comprehensive protection for their device and all of the data stored on it. If the phone is lost or stolen, the product enables [...]
13 April 2011
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Our BIG step, on the small screen Yorkshire Building Society has launched a mobile website designed specifically to access product information and services through smartphone devices. Use of smartphones growing rapidly
12 March 2011
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With the ever increasing sales of smartphones, apps for these are becoming more important, as users get used to being able to do host of things whilst on the move. Managing your money is something everyone has to do, but the release of iPhone and Android apps has been somewhat slow within the banking community.
1 March 2011
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Barclaycard launched a new mobile banking service today, building upon their existing on-line servicing platform, mybarclaycard. The service has been made available on hundreds of handset models, and utilises a specially optimised interface to provide an effortless web experience.
23 February 2011
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With the recent growth in portable device applications for smart phones and tablets, Nationwide have advised that it doesn’t support the use of any Nationwide branded ‘apps’ on any devices (apps generally run on Apple, Nokia, Google, Android and BlackBerry devices). They are currently unaware of any unofficial apps that actually work with their Internet Bank so [...]
15 February 2011
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Halifax have released their mobile trading service, which enables you to access your Share Dealing Account wherever you are, whenever you want. Using the service is easy, simply visit www.halifaxsharedealing.co.uk/mobile on your mobile and sign in to your account. Your username, password and security questions are the same as the main site.
5 February 2011
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Recent results from a Barclays survey are suggesting that a new style of financial terminology is changing the traditional banking terms. 43% of the Twitter users surveyed, thought that the advent of mobile phone banking is changing the way people talk about money. With an increasing use of communication via mobile phone text messages and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, words [...]
31 January 2011
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With websites and smartphones well established within the electronic banking arena, it seems that the recently released iPad and it’s flurry of ‘pad’ competitors are the next devices of focus. Although still at an early stage, there have been a couple of early innovators from the major high street banks to jump into ‘pad’ applications. [...]
8 October 2010
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