Lloyds TSB Scotland's report also found that the Scottish House Price Monitor, a quarterly index of average house prices adjusted for location, property type and season, fell from 290 to 287 between November 2012 and January this year.

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You'd index it by wife, honeymoon, date, location and any other criteria that might occur to you in the future when you went looking for it.

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The application combines voice-recognition technology with Google's search index and the iPhone's ability to track a user's location to offer results keyed to his or her whereabouts.

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Both developments put a more positive spin on Germany as a business location than it has enjoyed for a while, and offset somewhat the news that during June the business climate index measured by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research fell by an unexpectedly dramatic 1.4 points.

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