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First Banks of Second Life Episode 2: Crash and Burn

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2008-01-24 17:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...banks of Second Life, now collapsing or shuttered, are costing real people real money I am delighted to say here that not one bankofjoe customer has ever lost a penny Nor will they That's probably because I don't have any customers It's hard to have customers when you don't have a bank Wait a minute Never mind Here's the WSJ article, along...
 
Tags: real-life bank, life bank, encounter real-world limitations, world, real, real banks, real life, shady real-life bank, bank
 
 
 
 
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IRS Rebate Checks Crash Major Banks?

2008-04-28 14:07:25 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
 
...banks and credit cards and had difficulty loggiing on or downloading information from several of them. On Citibank's website I was able to logon, but couldn't successfully download the Quicken Web Connect file containing my 'recent activity'. This has never happened to me in the 8 years I've used Quicken with Citibank. About 15 minutes later...
 
Tags: server, server administrator, internal server error, server error log, error, internal error, web server error, generic error message, fcc taxes voip
 
 
 
 
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Play and save with RPG piggy banks

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2008-08-07 07:56:48 by Rebecca in Trends in Japan
...banks that use a Tamagotchi-esque liquid crystal display and a role playing game plot to reward savers As we mentioned with our coverage of the Jinsei Ginkou, these toy banks arent necessarily just for kids . Guys well into adulthood have pockets full of change that it wouldnt hurt to save, and the Japanese currency is heavily (literally)...
 
Tags: jinsei ginkou, sell-out jinsei ginkou, game plot, game, bandai targets, guy, save, story, sweet guy
 
 
 
 
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Piggy Banks loves to eat through your money

2008-08-01 07:28:27 by Editor in Gizmodiva.com
 
Piggy banks have always held my fascination since I was a kid. Recently, I was trying to teach my cousin a few values on saving up but in vain. That's why I thought I'd go on a piggy bank
 
Tags: piggy banks, piggy bank, recently, kid, held, cousin, values, vain, fascination
 
 
 
 
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Visa and Eight Banks Test Real-Time SMS Notifications For Transactions [Credit Card]

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2008-08-19 18:40:00 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
...banks ("PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo in the United States, and Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity in Canada") are testing real-time SMS notifications whenever your card makes one of a few types of transactions. The 2000 pilot beta customers can pick alerts for ATM cash withdrawals,...
 
Tags: bank, suntrust bank, pnc bank, real-time sms notifications, bank financial, out-of-country charge, charge, telephone charge, royal bank
 
 
 
 
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bankofjoe is DOA Back to the drawing board

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2008-01-10 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...banks from its virtual world Rats Here's the FT article. Second Life bans unregulated banks Second Life is banning unregulated banks from its virtual world after a run of defaults by financial institutions offering interest rates unobtainable in the real world and unsustainable in a virtual one San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which runs...
 
Tags: financial institutions, institutions, real, financial, banks, virtual banks, real-world government registration, life bans, life
 
 
 
 
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Synthetic Identity: 'The borrower who never was'

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2008-02-21 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...banks As is so often the case with sophisticated ruses like this, perpetrators oftimes learn their stuff by starting out in the field legitimately before going rogue Here's the WSJ story. The Borrower Who Never Was Synthetic-Identity Fraud Hits Credit Bureaus, Banks; A Night at the Ritz-Carlton In May 2002, Las Vegas resident Adam Gregory...
 
Tags: unpaid credit-card bills, credit, credit system lenders, credit-card fraud, credit card, credit charge-offs, produce credit histories, atm cards, cards
 
 
 
 
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New Trojan Intercepts Online Banking Information

2008-01-15 21:07:13 by HASH0x8b94204 in gadget life blog
 
...banks. Not only are the usual large American banks targeted but banks in many other countries are also targeted, including France, Spain, Ireland, the UK, Finland, Turkey the list goes on The Trojan can be downloaded or delivered silently through Web exploits, according to Symantec. Once it has been loaded to a machine, it can hook onto...
 
Tags: trojan, trojan downloads, trojan program, silentbanker trojan, trojan aimed, trojan software, symantec recommends users, symantec, users
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Banking Growing at a Feverish Pace

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2008-03-11 10:29:41 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...banks to connect with their retail and business customers, as well as reach new customer segments Mobile banking is already a strategic business and technology priority for the top U.S. banks. While these major players have the financial and technical resources to make a strategic commitment to themobile channel, most mid-tier and small banks...
 
Tags: mobile, mobile payments, recent mobile, technology, technology vendors, mobile delivery channel, vendors, financial institutions, institutions