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...root. Goodbye wicker, hello chintz. Café owners across Paris have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes formula bring in? As a patchwork of private companies - or "an informal network whose members have been tied to one another since birth," as Gilbert, 54, puts it - they're not required to say. Pressed, Gilbert figures the whole collection throws off some j100 million a year, although that's probably low. Profits? Up to 20% on the restaurants, perhaps...
...Such networking skills made headlines last week as Welchia, a network-only worm, grounded Air Canada's check-in system and caused three-fourths of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps computers to surrender. But if anyone thought e-mail worms were sluggish by comparison, Sobig.F was on hand to prove them wrong. In a single day, 1 in every 17 mails sent worldwide came from Sobig.F. At the New York Times, reporters were forced to turn off their terminals. Experts were shocked and awed by the worm's unprecedented clip. "This is the undisputed heavyweight champion of viruses," declared Scott...
...problems it inherited from the early years of the Internet. All the rules and protocols that govern how computers talk to one another and how e-mail is passed around have been handed down from the 1960s and '70s and are riddled with loopholes. Back then the nascent network was the province of the military and academia. If someone even knew what e-mail was, he or she was likely to be friendly...
...Franken was being his satirical self when he titled his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The swipe at the trademarked Fox News slogan failed to amuse the network, which sued to stop publication, accusing him of being "either intoxicated or deranged." Last Friday a judge sided with Franken, who spoke to TIME's Lev Grossman...
Eriko Kitagawa announces her presence in the lofty lobby of TBS television network's headquarters in Tokyo as a timid, ruffled-bloused housewife would: a small side step, brief eye contact and a nervous giggle. Soft curls, a conservative skirt and subtle makeup complete her outfit. Is this the scriptwriter who single-handedly brought Japanese television drama to the world stage and at the same time empowered the typically demure female lead? We sit down to?what else??tea, and instantly Kitagawa's sayonara-girl image snaps with her cocky first statement: "I always know what I'm writing will...