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McDonald's serves up instore Wi-Fi

News The move is in line with McDonald's strategy to shift the brand into a more upmarket space, currently occupied by trendy coffee bars such as But Brooks denies the move is a direct response to the popularity of café bars such as Starbucks.

Tags: customers, fi, country, wi fi

8 October 2007, 9:32

News.blog: iPhone squashes widescreen

News The non-standard screen shape means that widescreen video content will either need to be zoomed (cutting off the left and right sides) or letterboxed (black bars on the top and bottom) when viewed on the iPhone.

17 January 2007, 10:48

Cadbury left with chocolate on its face

News UK confectionary giant Cadbury Trebor Bassett (CTB) has taken a £12m hit on its profits after IT problems caused too many chocolate bars to be produced. CTB was left with a glut of chocolate products at the start of the year, after the rollout of a...

9 June 2006, 10:41

Videogame pirate heads to the slammer

News A Maryland man has been sentenced to four months behind bars for helping to organise a software and hardware piracy scheme out of a chain of videogame shops. Hitesh Patel, one of a group of employees and managers from the three-store Pandora's Cube...

28 July 2005, 10:19

Will RFID-guided robots rule the world?

News It's a sunny day and kids are playing tag, kicking a football around and hanging off the monkey bars. Picture a typical playground. Now imagine this: there's not a single parent or adult in sight, but a one-metre, 120kg robot on patrol instead.

11 July 2005, 12:11

News.blog: Microsoft sued over 'embarrassment'

News According to an InformationWeek report, Michael Alan Crooker, who is currently behind bars in Connecticut in connection with alleged gun crimes, sued the Windows maker in Massachusetts Superior Court last week.

6 March 2007, 9:22

iPod is the new Mars bar

News In the past, items such as Mars bars and a litre of gin have been staples of the list, but in recent years items such as laptops and consumer electronics have been added. The 'shopping basket' of goods, used as a common standard for measuring...

21 March 2006, 8:59

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, 14:30

'The Apprentice,' software style

News While viewers of the programme are interested in seeing the realities of the business world, the NBC show devises 'fake' challenges for contestants such as selling chocolate bars to passersby, Spolsky said.

12 May 2005, 12:14

Photos: Tracking Romans' mobile phones

News Before and during the 9 July match, people were less active, probably gathered around television sets and in bars (top and middle, far left). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with Telecom Italia on a real-time mapping system...

11 September 2006, 10:47

News.blog: Firefox 3 downloads pass 8 million mark

News And don't forget the error bars: it's impossible to say how many of the Firefox 3 copies were installed by enthusiasts trying to goose the number. Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla has said more than 8 million copies of Firefox...

Tags: firefox, downloaded, copies, downloading

19 June 2008, 9:27

Sony tests technology to limit CD burning

News The DRM embedded on the discs bars the burned CD from being copied. As part of its mounting US rollout of content-enhanced and copy-protected CDs, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is testing technology solutions that bar consumers from making...

1 June 2005, 10:35

The rise of the New Geek

News New Geeks visit pubs, clubs and bars more than twice as often as an average person. Far from being shy, retiring teenagers spending hours hunched over computer screens and living off a diet of Pepsi and pizza, today's geeks are a sophisticated...

3 August 2005, 10:42

News.blog: Maker Faire a geek's dream

News On the far side is a life-size Simon, the '70s-era machine from Milton Bradley, which tasks players with punching one of its four coloured bars in the same order that they lit up. It's a good thing I don't have much hair, because the huge plume of...

24 April 2006, 10:20

Qwerty could be knocked from top

News Modern typewriter inventor Christopher Sholes initially experimented with arranging the keys in alphabetical order, but discovered that the bars holding the letters collided and jammed too often as they struck the paper.

23 December 2005, 9:36