Computers and Internet

Stocks in Europe and Asia Advance; U.S. Index Futures Decline (Bloomberg.com)

16 May 2008

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks rose in Europe and Asia after British Airways Plc's earnings beat analysts' estimates, British Energy Group Plc received bid proposals and UBS AG recommended buying food retailers.

KHS takes part in program that gets computers to needy kids (Kewanee Star Courier)

16 May 2008

Kewanee High School students made it possible for a child somewhere in the world — maybe in Afghanistan, maybe in Nigeria — to have a computer for writing letters, sending e-mails, surfing the Web and doing about anything else that can be done on personal computers.

Web surfers wanted: help make computers smarter (The Times and Democrat)

16 May 2008

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.