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Last week during the Data is Money panel at SXSW, Aaron Patzer, the CEO of popular personal finance management Web site Mint.com, ignited a firestorm of controversy by bragging about the high quality of real time data that Mint is able to see -- such as which movie rental services are used most,...

By nature we are curious creatures and when it comes to money that curiosity increases, especially when it's how much other people are spending. That's the first thing that will attract you to Bundle.com, but it's what you find after this that makes Bundle a useful tool that you'll come back to...

When Intuit, the makers of popular personal finance software Quicken, purchased Mint.com for $170 million, users of both services expressed concerns about the future of their favorite financial tool. After it became clear that both Mint and Quicken Online would remain free, the only real question...

Recently the Los Angeles Times showcased a problem that more and more iPhone users are running into when they travel; expensive data roaming charges. The article profiles the plight of Nathan Oventhal to get a $550 data charge removed from his AT&T bill after his iPhone connected to the...

Are you a T-Mobile customer who's lost all your data thanks to the recent epic failure of Microsoft's computer systems? Well, there may be hope. After one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent tech history -- when it looked like over a million T-Mobile customers had lost their personal...

With cell phones doing more and more, the data stored on them becomes increasingly important. Even though phones have evolved to hold much more than phone numbers, not many people have a backup plan for the text messages, pictures and notes which now all sit on their phones. Users of the T-Mobile...

As a people, we rely on Google for a lot. We count on the company to deliver information, email and more; but did you know you can now go after Google for your mistakes? That's exactly what one bank is doing after a teller accidentally emailed a document containing information on 1,300 accounts to...

The only people who don't know about text messages these days are 90-year-olds and infants. Even if you don't use the feature, it is available on nearly every phone in use. Recently, text messaging overtook voice use on cell phones for the first time, indicating that texting is here to stay. Even...

A smörgåsbord of economic data released Thursday continues to suggest the U.S. economy continues to show 'fits and starts' - some 'green shoots' that Fed Chair Ben Bernanke spoke of, along with a lack of progress in other areas/metrics. First, the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index rose...

Despite the fact that some economists think the recession will end in September, Wal-Mart's CEO Rick Duke thinks otherwise. Speaking to the Today Show he predicted a much longer recession during which there must be a "sustained change in the way that families live." Duke shared this opinion shortly...