Word: networked
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...kindred spirits in cyberland--it passed copies of itself as well to everybody out there. (Imagine how receptive patrons of a singles chat room would be to a poisoned "love letter.") Nor would you have been protected if your computer was part of a so-called local area network, or lan. The Love Bug would leap that barrier like some hyperactive flea. And there's more. If you were surfing with Internet Explorer, it would reset your home page to a website in the Philippines, from which it would download a second virus--this one designed to round...
...case, Time Warner Cable chairman Joe Collins held an apparent ace. He could shut down access to Disney's ABC network on TW systems at the beginning of May, the "sweeps month," which determines ad rates for the coming broadcast season. But if Collins did play that card, Disney executives surely realized, the public relations victory would be theirs. If you begin with the premise that people don't like their cable company, it would have been hard for TW to win a hearts-and-minds-of-the-public battle with Attila...
...solely on its bottom line. The cable guys are equal opportunity offenders, even inside Time Warner. No less a figure than vice chairman Ted Turner, the company's largest individual stockholder, has repeatedly complained about the cable division's unwillingness to carry Time Warner's own programming. Financial news network CNNfn is available in barely 60% of Time Warner homes. Sports network CNNSI is in far fewer, even while Disney-owned rival ESPN is ubiquitous...
...Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and a few smaller markets plus the rest of Mexico due next year. Meanwhile, large infrastructure projects are in the works that will expand the region's ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner...
...executive ladder, Lufthansa has joined with seven other major corporations to offer a so-called cross-mentoring system in which high-ranking managers in one company offer advice to women managers in another firm. It's an effort to help them develop the kind of old-boy network that allows male managers to successfully climb the corporate ladder...