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Customers of ATMs long ago decided they could do without a teller. Now Steven Atkinson has a bolder idea: they can also do without the cash. His company mobileATM has developed secure software that allows cell-phone owners in Britain to check their bank balances using their handsets. That may sound trivial, but 37 banks in Britain, including First Direct (the roughly $12 billion phone and PC division of giant HSBC) and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), have approved...
...Because, says Atkinson, consumers make 150 million balance inquiries every month using 55,000 traditional hole-in-the-wall ATMs. MobileATM wants to redefine convenience. "When you ask the question 'Where is the nearest ATM?' I want the answer to be 'It's in your hand,'" says Atkinson, who was born in 1969, the year that Chemical Bank in New York City opened the world's first modern...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Fund Name 1 year 3 years 5 years Guinness Atkinson Global Energy 62% New New Fidelity Select Energy Service 56% 34% 14% Fidelity Select Energy 54% 40% 9% Profunds Ultra Sector Oil & Gas 50% 38% 14% Fidelity Select Natural Gas 50% 28% 12% Vanguard Energy...
...Sunday night backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway. Nathan Lane is sprawled on a couch in his tiny sitting room. His face is flushed. He looks exhausted. And no wonder: two days from now, he and Matthew Broderick are set to start previews of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, the play's first revival in 40 years. Broderick and Lane, whose singularly fizzy chemistry made the musical The Producers a colossal hit in 2001, have been rehearsing nonstop for the past three weeks. Lane will play the slovenly Oscar Madison, Broderick the famously fastidious Felix Unger...
...even Lord Nelson. Services are still held annually in the Chapter House remains of the marvelous Augustinian Priory, which outshone the 12th century church of St. Bartholomew the Great in size and influence for 500 years. Smithfield may be marvelous, but Merton Priory is monumental and moving. Mark Atkinson Friends of Merton Priory London The report on some of Europe's awe-inspiring places, celebrating the wonders of a part of our glorious planet, was one of Time's finest. We look forward to your covering the rest of the planet with the same incredible enthusiasm. But what saddens...