gui design - What is the information that's always present without requiring user interaction called?

I remember reading about this type of information displayed in a toolbar before, but I can't recall or find it on the web. Ideas?

the initial title of this question was What is the information that's always present in a toolbar called in UX lingo?

I always refer back to this question when I discuss designs with designers. However I believe narrowing the scope of this discussion to what appears on a tool bar is not helpful.. what I really meant is the kind of information that is displayed at all times, without requiring the user to do any further actions, this concept isn't specific to desktop applications (where putting status bars etc makes sense).. it also extends to the mobile world as well.. see example:

so I wonder what this type of visual information is called.. i don't think the term status bar applies here.

Answer

The name for the toolbar itself is the "status bar".

Status Bar -

a strip along the bottom of a software or Internet application that indicates what is happening with a task or information like date, time, cursor or scroll position, page number, open applications, etc.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/status-bar

On a Web browser, the status bar shows the progress of loading of Web pages into the browser window. In a word processing program, the status bar would typically display information about the cursor's position within the document and often

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/status_bar.html

So that would mean that the actual data contained on the bar would be the "status". Which would make sense, it is providing the state or context of the user:

Status - state or condition with respect to circumstances

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/status