Word: programming
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...making out like the airlines themselves. Why? "Because we sell the miles," says Bruce Chemel, president of American Airlines' frequent-flyer program. "Healthy Choice, Citibank, Hilton and Avis are all buying little pieces of the ticket." Partner companies pay about 2[cents] a mile, which can add up to more than an airline makes on a straight round-trip sale. "They're not giving anything away for free," says Petersen, who estimates a $2 billion windfall for the airlines in 1999. Still, Petersen says, no more than 15% or 16% of the seats on each flight are available to reward...
...Sole __ 21. Car in a 1964 hit song 24. Rocky, for one 25. Absorbed, as a loss 26. Sought a seat 28. Like some vbs. 29. Soccer standout Hamm 30. 20/20 network 34. Tapes over, perhaps 35. __ deferens 36. AMD is shipping this 1 GHz chip 37. Moral __ (BBC program that alleged spy leaks in Kosovo conflict) 38. Coverage co. 39. Pakistan is upset that Clinton is visiting here 42. __ Shui-bian (presidential candidate who supports formal independence for Taiwan) 43. Fruit throwaway 45. Eid al-__ (four-day Muslim feast of sacrifice beginning March 16) 46. __ Chan (Taiwanese Veep...
...these tiny travelers is fierce. The Milwaukee, Wis., Hilton is adding a $40 million water theme park. Holiday Inns offer kid suites with bunk beds and Sony PlayStations, and the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver gives kids a taste of what their parents do with a "junior-executive" program...
Fanning's software, released last August, included the features that made Napster a millennial college trend: live chat and MP3 indexing combined with fast, clean file sharing that bypasses your computer's sluggish send-mail program. It wasn't revolutionary so much as ingenious, linking existing concepts rather than breaking new programming ground. The day Fanning put the software online via a server at his uncle's office, he knew he had a huge hit: "As soon as we were up we were getting blasted with traffic." The company claims its user base growth rate has been between...
...require a centralized server, will be harder to shut down. But even if there is a way to disable Gnutella, so what? "Every time a 42-year-old figures out how to lock something up," says Griffin, "a 14-year-old is going to figure out a new program...