Does an app that tracks stock quotes need to collect information on the location of the user?
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Increasingly consumers want two-way broadband paging which allows for more sophisticated services like stock quotes or sports scores.
Another player in the podcasting space is FinancialContent.com , a provider of stock quotes, charts, news and other datasets.
Not that many Occupy Wall Street participants are actively checking their stock quotes or anything but it appears that they are actually winning.
Already available are mobile phones and pocket computers that can display stock quotes and news, specially tailored to fit miniature screens, from the Web.
Back in the 1980s, Data Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) developed a product called MarketWatch to deliver real time stock quotes to a PC via cable television.
So in addition to adding wireless telephony, BlackBerry could add financial news headlines and stock quotes to help compete more effectively with the Wall Street Journal.
Where the value is known--like a heavyweight boxing championship or real-time stock quotes--the content owner will be able to charge consumers on an a la carte basis.
Reading stock quotes out of the newspaper seems archaic now, and waiting for the monthly magazine to be delivered to the mail box seems like an eternity.
In addition to Pandora, DISH's Hopper features apps that give viewers real-time access to Facebook, Twitter and photo sharing, as well as games, news, weather, sports and stock quotes.
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Abetted by his phone sets and servers, Japanese are already reading news, getting stock quotes, playing games, sending e-mail, checking their horoscopes and making purchases using their mobile phones.
The latest generation offers e-mail and basic Web browsing so that busy users can stay in touch with the office, check flight times and get the latest stock quotes wherever they are.
The animosity was so bad that Archipelago, a Chicago-based electronic exchange, had filed complaints with the SEC against the NYSE for ignoring superior stock quotes offered elsewhere up to thousands of times a day.
His track record, of course, has been mixed: In 2002, for instance, Gates premiered the Mira, the portable touch screen, which never launched, and SPOT, an ambitious plan to beam weather and stock quotes to wristwatches.
It also has some snazzy new features to make searching easier, and an extra window pane that stays open no matter where you surf to display, for example, e-mail, stock quotes and other information from your favored portal site.
In France, Switzerland, Finland and the Czech Republic, for example, Internet information services packaged for the thin-pipe network and small phone displays allow users to access their bank records, Internet mail and information services such as horoscopes, news and stock quotes.
The information, which can include traffic information, weather, stock quotes, news, sports and dozens of other snippets, would be transmitted to the watches not by any fancy third-generation wireless phone technology, nor via satellite, but rather by FM radio signals using a technology called DirectBand.
New technology meant that computers could handle the many quotes that decimaled stock prices would create.
Stocks in the Over-The-Counter market are quoted on systems like the OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic quotation system, and the Pink Sheets, which is not registered as a stock exchange and is named for the color of paper on which its listings of price quotes for companies have historically been printed.
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