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Dinner Where? Ford and Microsoft Provide a Traveler's Answer

fsusblog — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:44:00 GMT

Adweek says Ford and Microsoft are teaming up to offer live mapping that will show you where to find the best pizza, or steak, as you drive into town. <a href=" http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003522807 "...(read more)

EDGAR ONLINE Steps Forward with XBRL; Vista Ready

fsusblog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:05:00 GMT

EDGAR Online introduced its latest version of I-Metrix during the XBRL International Conference in Philadelphia. I-Metrix 2.0 is the first platform in the world to combine an XBRL database of over 11,000 companies with new powerful analytical capabilities...(read more)

Microsoft Launches Banking Integration Factory

fsusblog — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:01:00 GMT

Microsoft has introduced a program to bring standards and best practices to banking applications so banks can turn disparate applications into an integrated composite so customers won't even notice when they are moving from an Internet application to...(read more)

New Vista and Office -- AP Misses the Story

fsusblog — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:22:00 GMT

http://www.onelocalnews.com/newhopecourier/ViewArticle.aspx?id=28923&source=2 " BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer, does a quick survey of the upcoming launches of Vista and Office and somewhat vaguely and inconclusively cites Bill Hartnett on...(read more)

Vista Should Win Fast Enterprise Adoption -- Microsoft MD for the UK

fsusblog — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:26:00 GMT

Gordon Frazer, Microsoft's newly appointed UK managing director, thinks Vista’s new features should win it faster adoption in the enterprise: unseen embedded functionality such as new security mechanisms and embedded search technology allowing users to...(read more)

Temenos -- Microsoft Global Banking Partner -- Wins Award

fsusblog — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:30:00 GMT

TEMENOS, a provider of integrated core banking systems that offer front to back integration on a Microsoft platform, has won the Financial-i ‘Leaders in Innovation Awards’ for TEMENOS T24, the company’s modular core banking system. The criteria for selecting...(read more)

Mobile Finance Goes International?

fsusblog — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:23:00 GMT

Wizzit and First National Bank in South Africa are developing banking accounts that rely on mobile phones as a way to reach the unbanked population, and clients who just want the convenience of making payment without a trek to the bank. The technology...(read more)

WSJ Survey of Online Banking

fsusblog — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:26:00 GMT

Jane Kim reports that usage is up, "Close to 40% of U.S. households do some banking online, more than double the rate in 2000, according to Celent LLC, a research and consulting firm." Banks are beginning to think like users rather than technologists...(read more)

Microsoft Search Goes Mobile with Sprint Nextel

fsusblog — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:32:00 GMT

Microsoft has signed a deal with Sprint Nextel to put Microsoft search on the Sprint network -- the first big deal to make search mobile. Looks like mobile devices are set to take off. Adam Kornak, the mobility specialist in Microsoft's financial services...(read more)

Microsoft Standards Support Integrated Delivery for Banking Services

fsusblog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:25:00 GMT

Because Microsoft technology uses Web services, XML, and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Microsoft and partner applications can be tightly integrated to provide a strong, yet flexible multichannel delivery system. For banks, that means that a standardized...(read more)

The Impact of Vista and Office 2007 for Banking

fsusblog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:12:00 GMT

In a white paper, titled "Unified Communications and Collaboration for the Banking Industry," outlines how Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system create a platform allowing banks to unify their business communications, empower teams through workspaces,...(read more)

Save Sarbox -- it's Good for Business

fsusblog — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:22:00 GMT

Annette Nazareth, an SEC commissioner, says SarbOx may need some refining but that it is good for business -- leading to higher company valuatins --and it protects the individual investors who make the US markets the deepest in the world. The slowdown...(read more)

Barclays -- Serious about Retail Banking

fsusblog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:15:00 GMT

Barclays has hired Helen Dodd from Tesco, where she was in charge of store format and design, to redo the retail branches, right down to the staff uniforms…The bank some months ago hired awayr Deanna Oppenheimer from WAMU to run its UK retail banking...(read more)

NYC Losing to London on Regulatory Costs?

fsusblog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:12:00 GMT

The FT reports that in London City professionals celebrate Sarbanes-Oxley for driving business form New York to the UK ; while SEC Chairman Christopher Cox promises the regulators won’t over-reach. However, the bigger dangers if legislative creep from...(read more)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? So What?

fsusblog — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:42:00 GMT

From David Margulius at Infoworld: Quick. When was the last time you remember being pleasantly surprised by how effectively a company used data about you to improve your customer experience? ...Personally, I’m amazed that none of the companies I’ve done...(read more)