Monday, August 6, 2001		Lens on IT

Customers pour over computer screens at an Internet cafe in Dubai's Bur Juman shopping centre. The fast-spreading "Code Red" Internet worm, which disrupted U.S. government Web sites last week, may re-emerge, experts say.

A trader works on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the opening of trading. Stocks were mostly higher early in the session on an upbeat brokerage report on Web gear giant Cisco Systems and as investors looked past a drop in key consumer confidence data last week. 

Chris Jones, vice-president of Windows XP at Microsoft, makes a point during an event in which more than 20 key industry leaders showcased their hardware and software solutions for digital photography on the Microsoft Windows XP platform in New York. Windows XP home and professional editions the Microsoft operating system will go on sale worldwide October 25, 2001.

Programmers and Internet freedom activists gather in front of San Francisco City Hall prior to marching to the Phillip Burton Federal Building to protest the arrest of Russian computer programmer Dmitry Sklyarov last week in San Francisco. Sklyarov was jailed after developing software that allows the user to circumvent the copyright protections in Adobe Systems eBook reader program.

— Reuters photos