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It was back in July of last year when we first posted about Obopay and Citi’s partnership. Now Citi announced that it has launched a pilot program to provide mobile person-to-person money transfer service to all its customers in the U.S., with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New Jersey.
Citibank customers participating in the pilot program can activate and connect the mobile service to their Citibank checking account or setup up a new mobile payment account at citi.obopay.com. Then, using their phone’s Web browser, SMS text messaging or the downloadable mobile application, customers can send and receive money nearly instantly needing only the mobile phone numbers of friends and family members.
According to the official release, this is the first time that a real-time, person-to-person mobile money transfer service with the ability to link directly to a bank account has been offered in the United States. Hopefully, people will dig the idea — after all, it does sound convenient!
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
