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The iPhone can already be used to buy coffee; now it can sell it too. Square, a new venture from Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, lets retailers swipe credit cards using a tiny reader that plugs in to the audio jack on an iPhone.

Using an iPhone to collect money is nothing new, and apps like Credit Card Terminal and iSwipe Pro have been around for awhile. But Square marks the first time a card can be physically swiped — and, says a post in Wired’s Epicenter, that also means the ability to accept gift cards.  Read more... (189 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Decho said Friday the latest release of 1.4.3 Mac for MozyHome and MozyPro online backup service fixes a problem it was having associated with saving backups sent to it by Apple’s Time Machine backup tool, which works with Apple’s Time Capsule network-attached storage device.

The 1.4.3 Mac release for MozyHome and MozyPro is available to download at the MozyHome site and at MozyPro site, which fixes the Time Machine/Time Capsule issue.

A bug was discovered in v1.4.1 Mac release earlier this week that affected users of Time Machine with Time Capsule or Time Machine with a network share of another Mac. The problem with Mozy’s backup process caused Time Machine software to pause and then freeze up.  Read more... (122 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)