Bank of America, Citigroup Testing iPhone For Employee Use: REPORT

Bloomberg:

Steve Jobs may soon bag a pair of the biggest U.S. banks as iPhone supporters.

Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail, said three people familiar with the plans.

Read the whole story: Bloomberg

Comments

[LightShadow62]

02:11 AM on 11/11/2010

Figuring out how to screw people out of even more money: There's an app for that!

[sweetsalad]

07:38 AM on 11/08/2010

They should be testing Microsoft Phone 7 because it is the future. But if banks want their employees to use smartphones then they should buy them one and pay for the service. http://www.digitalundivide.com

[JasonMcl]

04:30 AM on 11/08/2010

So you want to use something that was just recently web-rootable to have access to all private financial data?

How about you use a blackberry like the rest of the business world does and buy your own iPhone for personal use later.

[Morgantheaxe]

12:54 AM on 11/09/2010

You rarely see leaders following the herd.

[uomt]

06:42 PM on 11/09/2010

The leaders of the herd are usually the first over the cliff.

[ResearchtheFacts]

11:06 PM on 11/07/2010

Will they be using taxpayer money to do so? These are two loser companies.

[Niet]

12:14 PM on 11/07/2010

The iPhone is not reliable enough for bank work.
If you start seeing all the tellers in your bank using them in a work capacity - FIND ANOTHER BANK QUICK!
I'm guessing this is an initiative by some middle manager who really wants his employer to buy him an iPhone.

[Morgantheaxe]

12:58 AM on 11/09/2010

What in the WORLD are you talking about specifically? Are you really saying the Blackberry is a better product? I mean come on. The only reason it has the market share it does is it was the first to integrate in emails sent via outlook. That's it. Nothing else they did was near as ground breaking as what the Iphone has achieved. Business apps for Droid and Iphone are the nails in the coffin for RIM. They are the ultimate in resting on their laurels and losing while snoozing.

[Niet]

05:08 PM on 11/10/2010

Ground breaking isn't what you want in banking. As important and awesome as it is to break new ground, new technology is prone to failure. The iPhone is not yet reliable enough for serious work. Granted, in large part because it is tied to AT&T's laughable excuse for a network.

[EggZacktly]

05:43 PM on 11/10/2010

The Mac OS can be hacked into in less than ten seconds, Android Linux cannot be hacked into. The Mac OS is the least secure OS on the market, even Windows is more secure. I do not want my bankers using iPhones for official business, I want my bank to be secure.

[LightShadow62]

02:13 AM on 11/11/2010

The iPhone's reliability is miles ahead of the banks reliability.

[Niet]

06:59 AM on 11/13/2010

Wow. We really are in trouble then.

[MochasMom]

11:14 AM on 11/07/2010

I did not know that Blackberry was a Canadian company!

[jxm]

10:39 AM on 11/07/2010

I'd urge caution around enterprise adoption.

http://www.cultofmac.com/ios-4-1-security-hole-allows-anyone-with-physical-access-to-your-iphone-access-your-phone-data/66005

[gevan]

11:28 PM on 11/05/2010

Uh oh, BoA? There goes the neighborhood.

[cugamer]

10:40 PM on 11/05/2010

Is there a point to this article other then to give Apple a bit of free advertising? My company is updating it's time keeping software next week, perhaps you'd like to report on that as well.

[GoDogGo]

12:23 AM on 11/06/2010

Actually yes. For my company it's a talent acquisition issue. If we want people on the company system, we HAVE to offer the iPhone: Choice of phone is a very personal decision and if we want them to carry it with them, it has to be the one they want. Forcing people to use a Blackberry has become a huge a disincentive to work with someone.

In my industry (and certainly elsewhere) it's the iPhone that people want to use, by a wide margin.

Phones matter.

[cugamer]

12:59 AM on 11/06/2010

If your staff isn't smart enough to handle a Blackberry (a device with a much better record of reliability) you have bigger problems. This especially given the state of the economy, most people would be thrilled to have a job where they merit a company phone.

Regardless of what your organization chooses to use, a story like this is pointless, it's simply using the iPhone to try to get some click through and free advertising for a company which the press already falls all over itself to cover.

[Niet]

12:16 PM on 11/07/2010

Your company uses iPhones for business?
FAIL!