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Yesterday, we can do online banking. Today, there's mobile banking. Now, you can manage your finances with Verizon Wireless' newly launched Mobile Banking service. You no longer need to drive back and fro to your bank to check on your finances, you can simply press a few keys on your cell phone and you can instantly have access to your bank account. That's definitely convenience banking for you.
The famous web search engine, Ask.com has been improving its services for mobile phone users. Aside from basic web search engine, Ask.com Mobile also has the capability to show locations and directions for people in unfamiliar places. You would not have a hard time going back to your old girlfriend's place even if you have not been in the neighborhood for decades if you have Ask.com on your cell phone. What more, you don't even need to type in your location, you just need to speak through your cell phone and the Ask.com's voice activated system would give you the information that you need in a jiffy.
Mobile advertising is still in its infancy period. There are a lot of marketers who are taking advantage of the present market of cell phone users. Almost everyone is not without a mobile phone. Debatably, most people would spend more time on their cell phones than watching TV. Aside from TV commercials and print ads, store retailers are now looking at using cell phones as instrument for advertising.
Google has been dominating the web search engine industry. And not only did Google rule over the WorldWideWeb, it managed to work its way to our cell phones too. Following the lead of Google comes a new mobile search engine that has its own unique features to separate itself from the mobile search giant. Chacha launched a brand new service for mobile phone users. Anyone with a cell phone can text any imaginable questions to 242242 (ChaCha) and receive a SMS message with the answers.
We have all heard about the Bluetooth technology whenever we go to the market to buy a PDA, a laptop or even a cell phone. However, not many understand the exact usage and meaning of this latest technology. There are all sort of devices who are taking advantage of this wireless technology. Here is a brief review of this technology that can help you in understanding what it is:
Everyone loves to shop. But not everyone is thrilled to wait in the long lines at the mall and wait for their queue. The future of shopping is said to come to consumers in the next three years with the help of mobile technology. Since virtually everyone has a cell phone, it is by far the best instrument to be used to make shopping convenient for everyone. The concept is coined as Point and Find. This very advanced and amazing idea is developed and created by Boffins, a company that is working for one of the leading manufacturers of mobile phones in the world- Nokia.
Just when you thought that your good old camera phone is only good enough for taking pictures during birthdays, think again. With the technology we have at hand and the bright minds of some people, you can turn your cell phones into a lot of things. With Qipit, a free mobile service, you can turn your camera phone into a mobile scanner and a PDF converter. So if you don't feel like taking down notes during a business seminar, you can take a picture of the whiteboard in front of you and let Qipit do the work.
Don't you just wish that you could close the lights in your living room without getting up from your couch? Or close a window while tending to your grilled steak in the garage without moving a single step? All of these are possible with home automation. Home automation allows you to gain control over your home without physically doing so yourself. Technology has put home automation to the next level. Now, you can take control your home automation system with just a few clicks from your very own smartphone, PDA or cell phone.
There are a lot of people with a manic urge to check their e-mail every ten seconds. If you are one of these people, you might have your laptop or smartphone with you all the time. But what if you do not have these gadgets and has with you a normal mobile phone with no WAP or Internet browsing features? No, it's not the end of the world. You can still check your email with flipMail. Teleflip's flipMail is revolutionizing email to mobile phone communication. Mobile phone users, whatever their handsets may be, can easily read and send emails using their cell phones. FlipMail is a free service that converts your emails to text messages and send them straight to your phone.
With over 65 million subscribers, AT&T is set to improve its mobile phone services for its existing costumers and would-be subscribers. With video players improving with every handset launched in the market, a lot of mobile phone users are clamoring for Mobile TV in their cell phones. Hearing this call, AT&T is planning to launch its Mobile TV service as early as January of next year- 2008.
