So there I was, sitting in a cab in Austin, Texas. Just hours before I was on a roof terrace at a tech event, where Cole Worley gave me a quick demo of Square – the amazing payment systems for iPhones that turns your iPhone into a a device that allows you to accept credit card payments. I was fascinated by how smooth the payment process with the Square app was.

So there I was, in the back of the car, playing around on my iPad. I had no more cash in my pocket so I asked the driver if he accepted credit cards. Continue reading →

Info: A&Rs are the music industry’s trend scouts who discover new talent. They’re usually employed by record labels. A&R stands for Artists and Repertoire.

Amazon recently released a free web storage called Cloud Drive. It gives you 5GB of storage to upload your media files online and is based on their Web Services Storage called S3, which is already widely used in cloud computing.

So why do they offer that? Continue reading →