InternetIntuit Brings QuickBooks To Blackberry and iPhone (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - For business professionals who can't stand to waste a minute, Intuit is delivering the ability to do accounting on a smartphone. On Monday, Intuit announced integration for both the iPhone and Blackberry with QuickBooks Online, a Web-based business accounting application.

For business professionals who can't stand to waste a minute, Intuit is delivering the ability to do accounting on a smartphone. On Monday, Intuit announced integration for both the iPhone and Blackberry with QuickBooks Online, a Web-based business accounting application. Intuit is billing the integration as a means to give small-business owners more freedom to manage their business anywhere, anytime -- with or without a computer -- in what it calls an early version Web-based mobile application. "A growing number of small businesses are looking to mobile technology to run their business," said Rick Jensen, senior vice president of Intuit's Small Business Division. "Our goal with these new mobile services is to give QuickBooks Online users the edge they need to compete and manage their busy lives by keeping tabs on their business even when they are out of the office." The Pocket-Sized Accountant Intuit said QuickBooks Online gives mobile customers views of their finances by checking current bank and credit-card balances, tracking who owes them money and who they owe, and finding vendor and customer contact information with addresses through Google Maps. The program also lets them run balance sheets and profit-and-loss reports. Laura Olcott, treasurer for Twin Cities Co-op Preschool in Corte Madera, Calif., said QuickBooks Online is perfect for her company... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

Internet'Great Firewall of China' Blocks Apple's iTunes Store (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - China may be open to the Olympics, but it has shut off access to Apple's iTunes Store -- apparently because of a new album dedicated to Tibet. According to the album's sponsoring organization, more than 40 Olympic athletes from North America, Europe and China downloaded it "as an act of solidarity with Tibet" before the shutdown.

InternetCell Roaming Rule Switch on Hold

The FCC's head is still mulling rules about that let small wireless phone carriers to 'roam' on the networks of larger rivals.