Although Primrose says the link between Instant Messenger and ICQ was created as a "byproduct" of research into messaging and did not make the two programs interoperable, it moves the company closer to creating a worldwide system with 130 million users.

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Bryn Williams and I worked together at Le Gavroche a few years ago, and he's now chef patron of Odette's in Primrose Hill.

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