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• Sneaky Fees Two bucks to get a paper statement? $15 to book airline tickets online? Wireless providers, cable companies, and other firms are increasingly nickel-and-diming us to death. Here’s how to fight back.
• Mobile-Phone Banking: Convenient and Safe? Handling your money on an easily lost device may seem risky, but you have secure options.
• Go Virtual for Safer Online Shopping To foil online fraudsters looking to steal or sell your regular credit card number, you may want to use a virtual credit card instead.
• Quicken Online to Taste Like Mint When the Intuit-Mint deal is finalized, Quicken Online will become a reskinned Mint.
• Intuit to Buy Free Online Rival Mint Intuit has announced that it is purchasing online personal finance rival Mint for $170 million.
• Free Online Invoicing Tool Boosts Productivity Bamboo Invoice saves money, plus its server-side installation allows access from any PC at anytime.
• Coming Soon? Bank Deposits by iPhone A fascinating new application lets Apple iPhone users photograph both sides of a check, then send the images via their iPhone to make a deposit.
• Save Money, Online and Off Here are six money-saving tips that can help you reduce bills, avoid financial pitfalls, get cheap event tickets, and more.
• Finovate Startup Showcases Nifty New Web-Based Financial Services At Finovate Startup yesterday, a slew of new and young companies proved that Web-based financial services continue to proliferate and innovate even in a down economy. In fact, many are designed to help you deal with it. Here are some examples.
• 10 Cool New Technologies You Need to Check Out Instant-on access for any PC. A netbook with a detachable screen. And a cheaper way to get out from under your home mortgage. These and other creative Web services, software and hardware were introduced at the DEMO 09 conference.
• Lay It All Out With Family Budget Planner for Excel Don't put it off until later in the year. Plan your family's annual budget with this free spreadsheet.
• Manage Your Bank Account With Accounts & Budgets Free Wrangle a single bank account and budget with this free personal finance software.
• New Year's Resolutions: Fix Your Finances Web and mobile personal-finance tools are more abundant and useful than ever. It's a good year to consider using them.
• 9 Sites to Help You Survive the Recession A growing number of good Web sites, like Prosper and Bankrate, are popping up, offering useful tools to help you manage and conserve your money.
• Make Banks Compete for Your Deposits In MoneyAisle's real-time auctions, banks bid up rates on certificates of deposit and savings accounts.