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This paper is designed to investigate physicians’ opinions regarding an SMS professional medical news service in the Finnish health-care sector. A survey using SMS mobile technology was conducted on March 5, 2003. 259 out of 685 responded within 2 days, and 90% came within 6 hours after the survey was sent out. The response rate was 38%. Findings from this simple SMS survey showed that physicia...

The importance of internet banking in developing countries cannot be overemphasized as the cost of information and communication technologies are becoming cheaper while the problem of digital divide in these nations continue to be resolved. The Central banks of several developing nations have encouraged their financial institutions to incorporate electronic banking services to broaden their del...

The Mobile Banking Products and systems have a pivotal role to play in the financial deepening, especially in rural India. The mobile banking systems and products allow a customer to perform banking operations by making use of mobile phones. In most of the developing countries, especially in India, there is more number of mobile connections than bank accounts. The rural India is facing the prob...

The new information technology is becoming an important factor in the future development of financial services industry, and especially banking industry. Growing international trading and problems in transferring money have motivated researchers to introduce a new structure. Online banking is the newest delivery channel for retail banking services. Online banking facilitated by various Electron...

This research addresses the problem of website customization in online banking, particularly in the Australian context. Australia has the fourth highest online banking adoption rate among developed nations (behind Canada, US and UK) and Australian consumers prefer online banking over ATM, phone and branch. The existence of large number of users who use online banking services on a regular basis...