Customers are demanding even more data such as earning reports and an instant heads up on the tax consequences of a specific trade. He said Fidelity will offer these services soon. But it is not all so serious. And with an eye to grabbing users more interested in trading winks than stocks, text data will morph into pictures. Something that enhances the emotional quality of a communication will be attractive, especially to young people, said Adam Lavine, chief executive of FunMail Inc., which is developing a cast of well-known and new animated characters that phone users can send along with a short text message.
Humans are sensory beings.
If I am inviting you out for a drink, I can send you a nice picture of a drink, he said. Illowsky said 50 percent of the users of his wireless site are seeking movie show times. The other half of users want .guidance on what to see, checking capsule reviews, critic ratings and even box office receipts to find out what the guy next door picked. A shopper in a bricks and mortar store can whip out a phone to check the competing price online. Now, he estimates there are 25,000 sites worldwide and his company has 150,000 developers registered, with 40 percent of them based in the United States.