Author: Daniel Cross

Here’s five technologies that will improve the households of the future, not least the specific energy usuage per house to save on inefficient fuel consumption. arstechnica.com...

The Apple App Store has now hit 25 billion downloads, of both free and paid for, apps. The milestone comes just before the launch of the new iPad. allthingsd.com...

CrunchBase is a Wikipedia-type site which lists information on new start up companies, the documentation styled set up isn’t useful for stats though, which is where SeedTable comes in, collating data and putting it into graphs for easy analysis. techcrunch.com...

Amazon are launching Songza, a Pandora-like service but which bases the music its playing on where and when you are – for example background music at a dinner party or at work would lead the concierge to deliver two different play lists. hypebot.com...

With webcam technology that can identify a person or scan a credit card, Jumio have just scored $25.5million of investment to develop their technology. allthingsd.com...

The Live Music Bill, a bill which states that venues under 200 person capacities don’t need to hold a license to put on live music shows, has now passed into law and will come into action Autumn 2012. musicweek.com...

Despite steady growth across all area of its activities, Pandora’s net loses have actually gone up by nearly 600%. Is this the situation with almost all streaming services? digitalmusicnews.com...

YouTube’s improtance for the music community can’t be denied, and as part of YouTube Music channel Warner have jumped in and will be launching their very own official channel on March 20th. brand-m.biz...

Kikcstarter, the community investment platform, has seen a massive uptake on its idea. So far 400,000 people have invested $30million into art projects in return for special gifts or access to special events. hypebot.com...