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Target Corp. agreed to modify its Web site and pay US$6 million in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by the National Federation of the Blind. The NFB will test the site's accessibility annually for three years.

Hewlett-Packard Co. completed its $13.9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp., a deal that doubles HP's annual IT services revenue to $38 billion.

17 YEARS AGO: Linus Torvalds announced in a Usenet post that he had written the kernel for a new operating system, which he later named Linux.

Reprinted with permission from Computerworld. Story copyright 2008 Computerworld Inc. All rights reserved.

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