Finger scanning to be lunch card of the future?

Fischer said NutriKids (aka Big Brother) would offer features parents had been requesting for years. One is the ability to see what students are ordering for meals, and another is a faster and easier payment method. Each students was asked to press his or her right index finger on the optical reader, which scanned the print. Each student scanned.

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Shine: Yahoo Unveils Content Portal For Women

“Yahoo unwraps a content-portal targeting women, a step away from sales niches (travel, finance, autos) and concentrating on a social demographic.”

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You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Seems like everything went down this past week — YouTube, Hotmail, iTunes DRM, and Google’s stock price among them. Can you pick up the pieces in our snarky news quiz? Some questions aren’t as easy as they look. Most answers are worth 10 points, and at least one is impossible to get wrong. Ready? Then let’s begin.

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Sciatrope 0.1

About Sciatrope
A Cocoa (MacOS X) application that helps preparing for, and observe a solar eclipse.
- It gives the eclipse circumstances, distance and direction to the central line.
- It supports the connection to a NMEA compatible GPS receiver, to input location and time.
- It starts actions (apple scripts, shell scripts or applications) at prescripted times during the eclipse. For signaling the proximity of eclipse contacts, controlling a camera, controlling a live broadcast or whatever you may imagine.

Original post by Telegraph Science

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Data Guardian 1.3.5

About Data Guardian
Security and privacy are two of the most important issues in today’s world; leaving passwords on sticky notes around your computer simply will not cut it anymore. Data Guardian is a secure database application with up to 448-bits of Blowfish encryption ë regardless of how sensitive your data is. Create multiple databases in Data Guardian for a variety of purposes such as an address book, customer database, christmas shopping list, journal, password manager, or even notepad.

Easily create categories to store records, and even apply custom color labels and icons! Change the view options for each category to see the information you want, and even add your own custom data fields. Do not be stuck with a program which forces you to input your information into predefined fields. Enter the data you need to, not what you are forced to.

Original post by Telegraph Science

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MacBook Air Now Shipping

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Apple’s 2008 Proxy Statement Now Online

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