Dec

18

newquicken.jpgIntuit Inc is looking to boost Quicken personal finance software sales by offering it as a service for $3 a month that can run on Apple Inc’s iPhone.

It hopes the product, which launches on January 8, will vastly expand Quicken’s 14 million users and boost the market penetration of a brand that already generates about 1.7 million new copies of software a year, Intuit senior vice president Rick Jensen told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

Intuit has designed the product to appeal to younger consumers, people who may have used online banking for most of their adult lives, but do not use software to track those transactions.

“Our first mission is to make sure we are solving the needs of people who are not currently using a personal finance solution,” he said.

Sales of the Quicken brand have basically been flat since peaking in 2001, but it has recently taken some business away from its only key rival, Microsoft Corp, according to market researcher NPD.

Read Full Story

iPhonePlanet.net
I hope they hold off for Apple’s SDK. I would much rather have a native app that requires not internet connection, that will sync with the Mac or PC.

Technorati Tags:
, ,

Dec

18

garage.jpgApple quietly updated the iLife ‘08 program GarageBand to support creating ringtones for the iPhone on the Mac. The update 4.1.1 is available through Software Update, and works quite well. Look for ringtones to start popping up all over the place soon. TUAW has already posted a link to the CTU 24 ringtone here. Sorry no protected files, GarageBand will reject them. So get creative.

iLounge has created a Ten Step Guide here.

Technorati Tags:
, ,

Blogroll

WP Themes