MobileNest

According to CNBC, more banks go mobile. Mobile banking gives you a similar control over your account as if you were sitting at your computer.

I remember not so long ago being able to do your banking from the comfort of your home was a cutting edge concept. Now with bank accessibility advancements, I can do my baking during the subway ride to or from work.

Mobile banking users can check balance, transfer funds, make bill payments, and locate a branch location from a mobile device.

All large U.S. banks like Citibank, Wachovia, Bank of America, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, and ING Direct are launching some mobile banking service to provide a better connectivity for their customers in the effort to keep customers and innovate their service.

Depending on the bank, the service can be accessed using mobile web browser or downloaded application.

A new mobile application, MizPee, helps users to find a toilet near your current location.

If you are under biological pressured, you can access the service by going to mizpee.com using your mobile browser or sent text message to 415-350-2290. After providing the location you will receive a list of toilets in your area.

The toilet information is detailed enough for you to make the right decision.

The information contains:

• Business or building name
• Street address
• Distance from your location
• Cleanliness rating (from very clean to yuck)
• Cost and/or purchase requirements (is this toilet for customers only?)
• Existence of a handicap access
• Existence of diaper-changing station
• User comments

Meemo is a first mobile email service offered to mobile users not limited to Smartphones and PDAs. If you have a phone with a mobile browser and you have an email account, you are ready to use Meemo.

Meemo works with many different email accounts including Hotmail and Gmail. Once you sign up and configure the service, you will start getting an alert in the form of a text message anytime you receive an email. Clicking the alert will take you to your inbox, where you can read it, reply to it, or forward it. Meemo will also let you open attachments right on your phone.

In addition to the email capabilities you can also take advantage of Meemo’s calendar. The calendar allows users to create events and display them in the day, week, or month view. Event reminders are sent as text messages to your phone.

A new service offered by Verizon Wireless, VZ Navigator, has the same features as an advance navigation system. The service can be used at a fraction of a cost of a GPS system, right from your phone.

If you decide to sign up, you will have a chance to take advantage of: heads-up, voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions with auto-rewriting if you miss a turn, local search of approximately fourteen million points of interest in the U.S.A., and color maps with zoom-in capability.

VZ Navigator comes with Verizon Wireless Location Management website, where you can manage your location preferences.

VZ Navigator is available on many different phones, like Motorola v325, RAZR V3c, Samsung a930, etc. Verizon offers this service using two subscription options, per day ($2.99) and per month ($9.99).

If you like to browse the web using your mobile device and you like to share your findings of interested mobile friendly sites with others, you should check out Tappity.

Tappity is a user driven site where you can discover, rate, and suggest mobile-friendly web pages that are formatted for viewing on mobile devices (phones, PDAs, etc.).

Tappity allows its users to create customized mobile home pages populated with user’s favorites. In addition, users can take advantage of RSS feed used to alert of new sites submitted by other users.

ClairMail, Inc., the leader in 2-way mobile customer interaction, was selected by the oldest bank in California, Bank of Stockton, to provide mobile banking services. Bank of Stockton is seen as the leader in banking technology innovation, thus it makes sense for it to partner with a mobile service provider with a cutting edge, ClairMail System. The system operates using any mobile phone’s communication software, including mobile browser, wireless email, and short message services (SMS).

ClairMail is device, carrier,manufacturer, operating system, or wireless transmission standard independent. The mobile device independence is an attractive feature for a partner like Bank of Stockton, it reduces the cost of ownership through unified deployment and configuration.

All customers interested in mobile banking will have access to the following services:

• On-Demeanf Account Management
• No-Hold Customer Service
• Mobile Payments
• Actionable Alerts
• Enhanced Security

ClairMail to Power Bank of Stockton’s Mobile Banking Services [clairmail.com]