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The mobile banking arena is heating up, and, just in time for the holidays, so too is the marketing push from banks to get people to use the service. American Banker (registration required) reported that Wachovia and SunTrust have launched new services, and AT&T Corp. will unveil today new handsets with preloaded mobile banking software.
What’s your top most wished-for holiday gift? A new national survey suggests that Americans favor computers first, peace and happiness second, big screen televisions third, followed by clothes and then money.
“Getting away from it all” soon could become more difficult, thanks to an announcement by Alaska Airlines this week to test in-flight broadband service.
The search for pilot Steve Fossett, missing for more than two weeks after failing to return to a private airfield in southern Nevada, has now extended to the Web, thanks to satellite image analysis. Tens of thousands of virtual helpers have since joined forces to augment air and ground search efforts.
Projected number of worldwide personal computers in 2008: One billion.
Projected number of worldwide personal computers in 2015: Two billion.
More on those statistics here.
Most of the present day PCs are already on the Web. It looks like those two billion users will be on the Net, too.