Monday, October 23, 2000		Lens on IT

Model Claire Dennaford, dressed as computer game heroine Lara Croft, plays on a Sony Playstation built into the interior of a Daewoo Tacuma at the British Motor show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.There are more than 1000 cars on display from more than 300 exhibitors.

Traders in IBM options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange signal prices during heavy activity. Shares in IBM plunged 15 percent after the firm reported disappointing third quarter sales and scaled back its fourth quarter outlook after the close. Losses in IBM, a key component of the Dow Jones Industrial Index, helped push the blue chip market down more than 400 points in early trading. 

Microsoft co-founder and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates addresses a group of 350 participants, including about 50 digital technology CEOs, during the World Resource Institute (WRI) Conference in Seattle. The conference is aimed at improving the world population's quality of life with improvements in health and education standards by making digital technology more accessible and available especially in the Third World countries.

—Reuters photos