'Blue' financial software now on Digicel BlackBerry app centre

JSM Wireless UK, a leading global supplier of financial information software, yesterday announced an agreement with Digicel, the leading mobile network operator in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific, to launch its financial application on the BlackBerry platform.

The application, trademarked Blue, is a mobile software with a highly intuitive interface that provides users with free streaming, real-time data from global financial markets, including stocks, mutual funds, currencies, commodities, financial futures, oil and precious metals, together with extensive coverage of breaking business news.

Major milestone

A joint release from both companies quoted Niloo Kassam, senior vice-president for global marketing at JSM as saying that Blue was the only financial application to be selected for Digicel's BlackBerry application centre. "This represents a major milestone in our strategy to expand into emerging markets, which we feel present huge potential for our app(lication). Working with Digicel's ever-increasing subscriber base, we aim to make Blue available to BlackBerry users in Digicel's 26 markets in the Caribbean and Central America," said Kassam.

Brian Finn, Digicel Group commercial director, said that making Blue available for free on the BlackBerry represented the company's commitment to providing customers with best value mobile services. "By providing access to applications that enable and empower people to manage their financial, business and personal lives more effectively, Digicel is helping to unleash the real power of the BlackBerry to our ever-growing BlackBerry customer base," he added.

The release said the application offers timely access to those who need to track their investments in realtime. It enables bankers, brokers, dealers, fund managers, financial advisors, accountants, lawyers, retail investors and anyone exposed to financial markets to view high-quality streaming market data over mobile devices.