Would you pay $36 a year to access Quicken on your iPhone? What the hell, why not, right? You already paid for the iPhone! That's probably what Intuit is hoping—and the zillion-dollar iPod accessories market proves there's a lot of "blue ocean" for businesses that want to fish in Apple waters. It launches the product as a web service on January 8th, 2008, with an iPhone-friendly flavor also available then. There are plans to roll out "tweaked" versions for other mobile devices at an unspecified point in the future.

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," [Intuit senior vice president Rick Jensen] said.
Nothing say Christmas like a list, so here's another one. Here are some of the best personal finance ideas blogged this year, chosen by We may indeed have a nation of financially illiterate youths, but despite cries for increased financial education in public high schools, the one program that's historically addressed this— Michelle Slatalla, the Erma Bombeck-David Pogue hybrid who writes casual articles about the Internet for the average person (she's the mom who pestered her daughter on Facebook this past summer), has published a Chatty Cathy Kiplinger set itself three basic rules to follow for affordable holiday entertaining: "make it a team effort" by splitting hosting duties or having guests bring food, "borrow what you don't have," and " be creative." Following these rules, they came up with