What looked to be a frightening rout was transformed suddenly and without the slightest advance warning into a huge rally as hundreds upon hundreds of gigantic buy orders, all 1 million shares or more in size, poured into electronic trading systems at Credit Suisse and several other major trading firms.

FORBES: Watch Out For The Quants

Some 500 people have been given electronic-book readers, a gadget the size of a paperback with a screen like that of a laptop computer and a slot to take a memory card that can store three or four novels.

ECONOMIST: Electronic books

Dr Sheridon has come up with a so-called wand an electronic stick that can hold ten full-size books and also transfer text on to a sheet of Gyricon if a user runs the wand over the surface like a handheld scanner.

ECONOMIST: Showing off

One example: In 2005 OnStar detected and fixed a problem in the electronic ventilation system in GM's 2006 full-size SUVs.

FORBES: Magazine Article

AOL's flair for understanding the needs of the mass market and the size of its subscriber base will combine with Netscape's Internet browser and electronic-commerce software.

ECONOMIST: Internet riders