BlackBerry news from FierceFinanceIT

The Bank of Montreal, PayPass and RIM are teaming up to offer an adhesive strip that can be added to BlackBerries, to enable contactless payments. The firms are rolling out the technology in a trial... Read more...

USAA Federal Savings Bank is a single branch operation in San Antonio, Texas, in a military-focused niche, but it offers a view of how smaller institutions might be able to leverage technology to... Read more...

We noted recently that E*Trade was bent on beefing up its mobile offering, relying in part on technology from Vaultus and BlackBerry. Now it has launched an iPhone and iTouch app. It seems that more... Read more...

E*Trade and other discount brokerages seem to be betting on mobile trading as a must-offer solution. While mobile trading is hardly new at the online brokers, E*Trade made a big move late last year... Read more...

New software from a few companies can turn an iPhone into a machine that can authorize credit card payments via the iPhone and iTouch handsets, according to Finextra. So you could be your own mobile... Read more...

We've long noted that the key to BlackBerry defending its Wall Street turf against the iPhone and other competitors may be applications--both in-house and external. Will some of these apps be... Read more...

Bankers tend to be religious about their toys and tools, and the BlackBerry still reigns as the gadget of choice for most bankers. Eight out of 10 bankers ranked the BlackBerry as their favorite... Read more...

We tend to think of the great hand-held race on Wall Street as being a two-device battle: the undisputed champ, BlackBerry, versus a potential challenger, iPhone. But there is a sleeper out there:... Read more...

Can the iPhone supplant the Blackberry as the info-drug of choice on Wall Street? Knocking off the Crackberry seemed impossible not too long ago, but Apple has upgraded the enterprise capabilities of... Read more...

In this era of rampant electronic trading, you would think that telephones, except of the BlackBerry variety, would be on the endangered species list. You would be wrong. The lowly telephone remains... Read more...