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iPod is the new Mars bar

News Such items belong in the basket just as much as those things which do not experience such price patterns," he added, referring to items such as the Mars bar and bottle of gin, which typically increase rather than decrease in price over time.

21 March 2006, 8:59

Scanning veins as a human bar code

News In a way, it's like looking at a bar code. We convert your veins to a bar code. In Memphis, Tennessee, a small medical supply company called Luminetx has developed a new method of palm-reading that it hopes will rival fingerprinting or retinal...

2 February 2006, 9:12

Photos: Skipping the bar queues

News Welcome to the Intermission Bar at the University of Westminster Students' Union, where academics come to while away their evenings and their student loans. The 499-capacity venue now plays host to six high tech tables, kitted out with pop-up...

21 September 2006, 9:57

Photos: Happy hour with robots

News If robots and humans are ever truly going to bond, it's going to have to be over drinks in a dimly lit bar. A device like the Vino Viper, exhibited by Kal Spelletich, could come in very handy when people are lined up three and four deep around the...

11 December 2006, 10:10

News.blog: Email autocomplete causes $1bn oopsie

News But with email used to send everything from jokes, to family photos to corporate secrets, "most of the time" seems like far too low a bar. I try to always give my address bar a second look before hitting send, but once or twice have found my note...

Tags: bar, note, microsoft outlook, autocomplete

7 February 2008, 9:26

Flock to launch 'social' Web browser

News The free browser has a photo bar that runs across the top. People can also drag and drop images onto the display bar. Start-up Flock plans this autumn to release version 1.0 of its namesake browser, which intermingles online socialising and Web...

4 August 2006, 9:11

Google brings maps local search to UK

News For example, users in Soho, London, searching for a bar in their neighbourhood can enter the keyword 'bar', plus their postcode or 'Soho', and Google Local UK returns a list of nearby bars. Google UK has introduced local-search and mapping tools...

25 April 2005, 13:30

Spoofing flaw uncovered in IE 7

News This makes it possible to only display a part of the address bar, which may trick users into performing certain unintended actions," Secunia said. The problem lies in the way Web addresses are displayed in the IE 7 address bar, a Microsoft...

26 October 2006, 9:11

The curtain rises on Opera 9

News A security bar has also been added to Opera 9, a response to the prevalence of phishing scams and identity theft. The security bar aims to reduce users' encounters with phishing scams and also includes technology to strengthen blocking of pop-up...

21 June 2006, 10:49

News.blog: iPhone named 'invention of the year'

News A tiny little orange airplane zooms into the menu bar! The iPhone has made the wireless industry sit up and realise that the bar has been raised. And lo, it was foretold in the fall of 2007, that a mobile telephone would lead humanity out of the...

Tags: industry, bar, person, iphone

2 November 2007, 9:33

Geeks to hold open-source camping weekend

News That's why some of them have gotten together to organise what they're calling Bar Camp and referring to it as an open-source alternative to Foo Camp. They're calling it Bar Camp as a play on the word 'foobar', a common version of the military...

22 August 2005, 9:03

Photos: Apple's new NY glass palace

News Apple's new retail store will feature a combined 45-foot Genius Bar, iPod Bar and The Studio, where customers can get face-to-face support, free advice and work on creative projects at any hour of the day or night.

19 May 2006, 10:59

Photos: New features in Firefox 3

News Type in a keyword and the 'Awesome Bar', as Mozilla modestly refers to it, searches through your history and bookmarks and presents a list of recently accessed pages with that keyword. Firefox 3 makes it easy to see if the page you're on is secure...

Tags: icon, firefox, credit, bookmarks

19 June 2008, 9:18

Jack Thompson rebuked by judge

News Thompson, I find inappropriate for a member of the Florida bar, unprofessional, and contemptible. Friedman then said he had filed a complaint with the Florida bar and that he was going to recuse himself from the case.

27 October 2006, 10:01

Can IE7 stop phishing for good?

News However, when IE7 users visit a site with a fraudulent URL and no SSL certificate their address bar will turn red, warning them they may be straying into dangerous territory. If the site's URL tallies with who its owner is, and the SSL certificate...

30 October 2006, 10:19