Computers were still comparatively rare when, at the end of 1982, Time magazine elected them the first non-human recipient of its "person of the year" award. "The 'information revolution' that futurists have long predicted has arrived, bringing with it the promise of dramatic changes in the way people live and work, perhaps even in the way they think," the magazine ...

American singer CONNIE FRANCIS is "doing well" after she was hospitalised with high blood pressure on Saturday (26Jul08).
The Who's Sorry Now? hitmaker, 69, was forced to cancel a performance in New York as a result of the health scare.
She was admitted to the city's Long Island Jewish Medical Center's coronary care unit, where she is ...

Singer Connie Francis is being treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was hospitalized after falling ill earlier this week. Her agent, Mike Church, says the 69-year-old singer had been scheduled to perform Wednesday night with Neil Sedaka at The Capital ...