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Faxes are "rubbish"? Not a bit of it...

News Find a scanner (still uncommon in many office environments), scan it in, find out what file formats the recipient can use or would prefer, save it in that format, transfer it from wherever the scanner was to somewhere where I can attach it to an...

6 September 2002, 11:45

PayPal gets a run for its money?

News Its service, which it said is deployed at two of the five largest US supermarket chains, lets consumers pay for purchases by simply touching a finger scanner and entering a PIN. Then, they use a finger scanner at home or work to submit their...

9 February 2006, 8:51

Cambridge event buzzes with invention

News TyTN smart phone and turns the inbuilt camera into a scanner, but a scanner which can be taken anywhere and used anytime. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some of the inventions that were showcased at a Cambridge

Tags: identify, maps, travel, businesses

10 September 2007, 12:54

The A-Z of ebusiness (S)

News Scanner In telecommunications, a scanner is a device used to monitor radio frequencies for signals that are of interest to the user. Satellite TV A TV distribution platform relying on transmission through a satellite dish

1 January 2002, 14:00

Police to test bomb-detecting body scanners

News The scanner picked up 10,000 illegal immigrants in the back of lorries in its first nine months. The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people...

25 July 2005, 10:50

Bomb scanners to check UK rail passengers

News The first trial will be at London's Paddington station for passengers using the Heathrow Express rail link who will have to pass through a body scanner and put their luggage through an x-ray machine. Airport-style scanning technology and x-ray...

1 November 2005, 9:15

Toshiba unveils Windows Mobile handsets

News One integration feature is that users will be able to unlock their Toshiba laptops via their Toshiba handsets with the fingerprint scanner. Toshiba is entering the UK's smart phone/PDA market with two Windows Mobile devices promising close...

Tags: toshiba, devices, laptops, integration

12 February 2007, 9:49

News.blog: Asus readies 13.3-inch laptop

News The Asus U3 incorporates a boatload of professional-level upgrades, including Intel Turbo Memory, 3G wireless and integrated GPS options, plus a fingerprint scanner and Trusted Platform Module for security.

9 August 2007, 10:45

High-tech scan reveals mummy's secrets

News In May, a team of scientists from the Rosicrucian museum, SGI and Stanford University had performed 60,000 scans of the child mummy using an AXIOM Siemens scanner. Before an eager audience of academics, Egyptologists, technologists and other...

4 August 2005, 11:18

Canon warns people not to photocopy arses

News Geoff Bush, from the north of England, said one case he'd attended, where a young lady had cracked the glass mid-scan, also jammed the scanner so that it wasn't until the machine was fixed and her colleagues all sober that copies of her backside...

24 November 2005, 9:07

Flaw found in Sophos antivirus software

News Earlier this week, several flaws discovered by ISS were disclosed and fixed in Clam Antivirus, a popular open-source virus scanner. Sophos has announced a flaw in its flagship antivirus product, but said that it is working on fixes.

29 July 2005, 10:45

Scanning veins as a human bar code

News The medical tool uses the infrared scanner to detect veins up to 12mm under the skin, analyses the data in real time with a Pentium 4 computer, and then projects a digital image back onto the skin. In Memphis, Tennessee, a small medical supply...

2 February 2006, 9:12