11.   Microsoft has allowed PC makers to ship new computers with XP on them since last month, but Thursday was the first day consumers could purchase the upgrades.

12.   Since then, police say, they have uncovered a massive computer theft ring in metro Atlanta that shipped stolen computers to New York, California and Florida.

13.   The computer was shipped in February to a group called the China Scientific Institute in Beijing.

14.   The computers had been shipped from an American Media facility in Texas so that the tabloids could set up new temporary offices.

15.   Computer giant IBM said Monday it had stopped shipping computers fitted with the new generation Pentium microprocessor, two weeks after maker Intel acknowledged problems with it.

16.   Computer giant IBM said Monday it had stopped shipping computers fitted with the new generation Pentium microprocessor, two weeks after maker Intel acknowledged problems with the chip.