Tag: FINANCE

If at all possible, we here at Switched avoid making trips to the bank; on the fun-meter, the visits rank right up there with going to the dentist. Long lines, annoying forms, and rude tellers waiting for us once we walk in the door tend to be the normal experience, and it appears we aren't the only folks that feel this way, either. CNET News writes of a recent survey by the Gartner Group that ...

Microsoft has been trimming the fat recently, and not just by laying off employees. The company is ending entire product lines; 'Encarta,' 'Flight Simulator,' and 'Windows OneCare' have all bitten the dust, and now joining the list of deceased software packages is 'Money.' The personal finance program, which has been available online since last year, will be taken off the market at the end of ...

Do you find the iPhone's stock widget a bit anemic on features? Tired of shuffling through multiple apps for finance news, stock reports, and keeping track of personal portfolios? Then we highly suggest you download the just released DailyFinance (iTunes link) app. This one-stop application culls the best features of various finance apps, and presents them in an exceptionally handsome interface ...

We have seen no greater example of exactly why we are in our current dire financial straights than the new MySpace-branded credit card. In what we can only assume is a conspiracy by News Corp (owner of MySpace, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal) to ensure that the younger generation will be subject to the same crippling debt that we are, the social networking service has lent its brand name ...

With Wall Street in disgrace and the economy in a nosedive, where should the country turn for financial advice? Would you ever think gamers? Since 2003, players on the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Entropia has been steadily building an economy that now boasts a daily turnover of $1.25 million per day. Entropia sports a real cash economy model of play where monetary ...

Larry Magid of CBS decided to compare his gadget bills to those of his parents, and ended up wishing he didn't. The network's tech guru found, to what we would have assumed was no one's surprise, we spend a lot more on gadgets than the previous generations. How much more? Well check out the quick list below: Cost of phone in 1970 - $8 a month plus long distance charges. Cost of phone now - $90 a ...