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24 Oct 08

Google's G1/Android Phone Launches Today; Bank of America Mobile Banking is First Finance App

Bank of America available on day one through
Google's Android
Market.
The bank's Android app looks like the other mobile versions. It includes online
banking access and an ATM/branch locator that uses built-in
location-based-services

Bank of America offers m-banking apps for Google Android

Bank of America has become the first bank to offer a mobile phone application
on Google's Android Market, which opened for business Wednesday with 50 apps
available for download
It offers access to online banking over the phone screen and includes branch/ATM
location capabilities.
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- Card network Visa announced in September that it too is developing mobile
  payments software for handsets that run on Google's new phone operating
  system.
- The first application will initially be offered to Chase Visa cardholders,
- Customers will be sent notifications about transactions to their handsets and
  receive promotional offers from merchants. The service will also use Android's
  in-built location-based technology to inform customers about nearby retailers
  where they can redeem the offers and locate ATMs.
- Mobile Money Ventures (MMV) - the joint venture set up by Citi and South
  Korea's SK Telecom - has also announced plans to develop Android-compatible
  banking applications.