| FINE DINERS' HUNGER PAIN$
As hedge-fund loot floods the city and muscular foreign currencies laugh at the feeble dollar, restaurant prices are skyrocketing, even though most owners say it's only the other guy who's charging more. Customers in the five boroughs, especially in Manhattan, are gulping over price jumps for some dishes and prix-fixe meals of up to 10 percent. The good news is that our bistros, trattorias and sushi-terias are busier than ever, although New York State Restaurant Association Executive VP Chuck Hunt says "it doesn't necessarily mean they're making a ton of money," despite an estimated $12 billion to $14 billion in annual revenue. Some of the crazy prices are meant to exploit the city's tourism boom, which has brought zillions of big-spending foreigners to town with cash to burn.
DOD Takes Bids for Spyware Contract
"People are bringing in things from home, installing freeware. It's a big problem," said Eric Sites of Sunbelt Software Inc., one of the companies that are bidding on the contract. "If you look at the problems in the corporate environment with spyware and vulnerabilities, the same things are there in everything that the federal government or the DOD is doing, with the added component of top secret networks," said Tom Simmons, director of federal programs at Trend Micro, which is bidding for the SDEP work. Symantec and McAfee both declined to comment on the SDEP solicitation. DISA's original specifications for anti-virus protection, which are now 3 years old, failed to anticipate the spyware problem or the need for anti-spyware features, Simmons said. "If you look at what was available in anti-virus in 2002, spyware was the purview of very few people who were very forward looking in terms of vulnerabilities and threats," he said.
Dokic's landmark win
Dokic was the only shining light for the Australian contingent in Hobart today with wildcards Monique Adamczak and Jessica Moore both falling at the first hurdle. Adamczak was outclassed by Russian Alla Kudryavtseva 6-3 6-2. No.1 seed Alona Bondarenko from Ukraine was made to work hard by Moore but eventually prevailed in straight sets 7-5 6-2. Other seeds were not so lucky today with Belarussian No.5 seed Victoria Azarenka, the runner-up at last week's Australian Women's Hardcourt Championships on the Gold Coast, retiring due to a right abductor injury against Olga Govortsova. No.9 seed Gisela Dulko also bowed out with a left hip injury in her match against Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives. Share this article What is this? .
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