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Photos: New York gets a mini Googleplex

News In addition to the snack bars, the new offices house a small cafeteria. Following a year of speculation, Google has finally opened its new office in the Big Apple at 111 Eighth Avenue, in the heart of the Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York.

3 October 2006, 10:08

Tate Modern Web site rehung

News I hope this gets used in bedrooms and coffee bars and kitchen tables around the country and around the world," he said. Tate Modern has unveiled a revamp of its online offerings to complement the art gallery's recent rehang.

27 June 2006, 9:52

Reality check for over-hyped Origami PC

News New settings make scroll bars and icons bigger and more easily navigated by a fingertip. But as devices begin to roll out a year later, reality still trails Microsoft's ambitions. The first generation of devices, being announced on Thursday, are...

9 March 2006, 10:34

Sat-nav for joggers

News Garmin, a company best known for marine, hiking and road trackers, offers fitness devices with mobile phone-sized heart monitors, which cyclists mount on their handle bars. GPS, already indispensable for soldiers, pilots and lorry drivers, is now...

6 June 2006, 9:29

No more queues with RFID pub tables

News Some students are used to bars that are nine people deep but we cater for mature students and they expect a lot more. Sharp elbows, long queues, being ignored by the barman when you eventually get there -- all good reasons to put off fighting your...

20 September 2006, 10:10

Stephen Hawking's cosmological riff

News In a show of good timing, Hawking displayed an overhead slide showing a stone prison wall with his face peering through the bars of a lone window. We don't have good observations for how the universe is expanding again so rapidly after a long...

14 November 2005, 9:47

How do you get ratings for mobile TV?

News That allows the company to track viewing even at bars, or at friend's homes, for example. The iPod, and the $1.99-per-episode television programming that Apple introduced to the US market with it, have brought home how much the TV business that...

13 December 2005, 10:59

Facebook app spreads chocolaty love

News You can now send your Facebook friends chocolaty gifts that they can then pick up at a shop using their mobile phones. The Celebrate platform has been launched by mobile marketing company, The Light Agency, in conjunction with Mars Snackfood UK...

Tags: marketing, friends, gift, gifts

15 February 2008, 7:58

E-money credit cards coming to London

News It says the tech will suit "fast-food outlets, coffee shops, newsagents, off licences, bars, pubs, parking facilities and vending machines". Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card...

14 December 2006, 9:21

Men rely on flash phones to pick up girls

News The two-year study observed men and women in various public locations including restaurants, bars and coffee shops. Forget the cheesy chat-up lines, flash car or dodgy dancing, men are now whipping out their mobiles to attract the ladies, research...

14 November 2006, 11:14