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Photos: First Direct iPhone banking app lets mobile Brits make payments

...The Banking on the Go app also enables First Direct customers to view account balances, see the last 20 transactions on... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
<endeca_term>first direct</endeca_term> Currency Converter 1.0.2

first direct Currency Converter 1.0.2

The first direct currency converter is a free, easy to use application that enables... Read more

12 October, 2011
Formal Semantics and Implementation of BPMN 2.0 Inclusive Gateways

Formal Semantics and Implementation of BPMN 2.0 Inclusive Gateways

The authors present the first direct formalization of the semantics of inclusive gateways as described in the... Read more

12 August, 2010

Nationwide tops Which? online banking tests

...RBS 63 Barclays 62 Cooperative Bank 59 HSBC 58 Clydesdale Bank 56 First Direct 54 Lloyds TSB 54 Smile 49 Santander 44 Halifax 38 Norwich... Read more

18 August, 2011 by Ben Woods
Chandra telescope spots ancient black holes

Chandra telescope spots ancient black holes

...observations, based on the deepest X-ray image ever made, are the first direct evidence showing massive black holes were common in the early universe... Read more

16 June, 2011 by William Harwood

Photos: Undersea cables, Olympic IT, Bletchley, Goonhilly, CES gadgets and Android 3.0

Another app to arrive on the scene in January was First Direct's banking app - described by the company as the first UK... Read more

31 January, 2011 by silicon.com staff

Samsung N150 Plus Netbook

...with Windows 7 Brain-Dead Edition (aka Starter Edition). This is my first direct exposure to Win7 BDE, and with any luck it will be... Read more

29 August, 2010
HIV & AIDS 1.0

HIV & AIDS 1.0

...leads to low levels of CD4+ T cells through three main mechanisms: First, direct viral killing of infected cells; second, increased rates of apoptosis in... Read more

25 November, 2011
Penguen Dergisi 1.3

Penguen Dergisi 1.3

...access to the magazines last 11 archived issues. As one of the first direct-to-mobile publications (completely bypassing the internet), the Penguen Mobile application... Read more

25 October, 2011
Oz WiFi 1.4

Oz WiFi 1.4

...Location based search finds the nearest hotspots around you, sorted by closest first.-Direct link to google maps for all hotspots.-Highly efficient search algorithm... Read more

9 August, 2011
Banking on the go 1.1.0

Banking on the go 1.1.0

To use this first direct iPhone App you need to be a first direct customer and... Read more

23 July, 2011
On Delay Performance of Throughput Optimal Back-Pressure Routing: Testbed Results

On Delay Performance of Throughput Optimal Back-Pressure Routing: Testbed Results

...of its recently proposed variants on an experimental testbed. This provides the first direct comparison of delay performance Read more

3 May, 2011

Microsoft may be scoring own goal with IE plans

...Web surfers. Less than a month later, UK online and telephone bank First Direct, a subsidiary of HSBC, sent an email to its 600,000... Read more

30 June, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Photos: From wine tasting to choosing a mortgage

At Surface's UK launch, online bank First Direct showed an application it's been developing with partner Splendid to... Read more

19 March, 2009 by Tim Ferguson

'Electronic kitchen table' a hit for bank

Case study: First Direct grabs eyeballs with aggregation service First Direct has integrated its account... Read more

15 August, 2005 by Steve Ranger

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