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Touring the World: Preparing for a Long Trip

The Realtime Report

To avoid losing cards or running into problems that need immediate attention, inform them about your trip and use banks that allow withdrawals anywhere in the world (without charging hefty fees). If you use digital cameras or mobile phones with GPS modules, these devices can quickly eat up battery juice. First, bring extra batteries.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

Mobile banking a must have. Banking of course! Juniper is predicting that banks will move to make mobile banking a key feature for smart phone users in 2011. We already have built in features such as GPS and gyroscopes (so your phone knows when you pass out at the company Christmas party).

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7 Ways to Lighten Up Your Marketing and Generate Conversation

Convince & Convert

Imagine a portable GPS with an identity crisis in the wake of mobile apps that render it obsolete. We put twenty-somethings in bank VP and customer service roles and let them improvise on how they would run a bank. That’s exactly what I love about this video, which received over 1 million views within weeks of its launch.

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New Photo-sharing App Called “Color”. The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

However, a part of this might be caused by the fact that the company received $41 million in pre-launch venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Silicon Valley Bank. The new app is launched on iPhone and Adroid, and behind this new social networking app we find former Lala CEO Bill Nguyen and former BillShrink CEO Peter Pham.

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Top 10 Apps for Windows Phones

Idaconcpts

Already included as standard on LG’s Windows phones, this is an augmented reality app that displays directions to nearby restaurants, hotels, banks and the like on your phone screen as you hold up your camera. ScanSearch. Price: Free. How handy is that? Download ScanSearch. Krashlander. Price: $1.29. Download Krashlander. Egg Timer Pro.

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Social Media in Financial Services: 5 Essential Tips and Benefits

Hootsuite

For example, Canada’s Tangerine Bank hosts regular #MoneySavvy Twitter chats. In our new #Citi GPS report, we explore opportunities in education: [link] pic.twitter.com/zNfd4DphgS. That doesn’t mean they want their financial services providers to be clinical and cold. Are you on the same page with your partner about money matters?

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How? ?to? ?Stop? ?Amazon? ?From? ?Tracking? ?Your? ?Data? ?

Tweaklibrary

Financial details like bank details and Credit/Debit card details which you use while making the purchase on Amazon. The data is retrieved automatically like the location through GPS and access to the phone through the camera gallery. There are broadly 4 sources by which Amazon gets your data.

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