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LONDON--In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive.

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Starting this week, the company's Sniffer Wireless protocol analyzer will be able to trouble-shoot both 802.11b and 802.11a networks.

Previously, the Sniffer Wireless line of wireless security management products supported only 802.11b networks, which offer data transfer rates of up to 11M bps. 802.11a offers rates of up to 54M bps.
Corporate customers have indicated plans to mix and match the networks and had been asking for security products that support both, officials said.

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The new tool, code-named Visual Studio Tools for Office, exploits the data-sharing capabilities of XML (Extended Markup Language) to help developers create Office-based applications. The enhancements are designed to let companies tailor Microsoft Word and Excel applications to their specific corporate processes and to link "islands of data," said Robert Green, lead product manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft.

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Think of a television screen rendered on a poster. Imagine monitors made of single sheets of flexible plastic. The images you're conjuring up are some of the futuristic technologies Xerox researchers are developing.

Scientists at the Xerox Research Center of Canada are working on semiconducting organic polymers that show promise for enabling the printing of electronic patterns on plastic substrates. Such materials could be alternatives to silicon transistors and lead to surprising applications.

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The PCS Phone by Hitachi P300 comes at a premium-$300 (street)-but if it indicates the quality of cell phones we can expect from the company in the future, we're in for some exciting new choices.

Hitachi has included features never seen before-you can have a light sensor control ringer volume, for example, and you can configure an LED to display distinctive color combinations for important callers.

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Worn out by endless pitches to enhance his manhood, rescue Ugandan bank accounts, and create a check with his computer, an IBM researcher has concluded that spammers must pay.

IBM researcher Scott E. Fahlman concludes in a recent IBM research paper that time literally equals money, and that telemarketers, charities, businesses, and even friends should be willing to pay for the privilege of bothering today's wired human.

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Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network Appliance Inc.

An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachi's midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning storage series behind NetApp's technology, executives from both firms said Wednesday.

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At last week's Comdex show, sources said AMD's processors would move to a 400-MHz front-side bus during the first half of next year with the Barton processor. Intel, meanwhile, will increase the front-side bus speed of its Pentium 4 platform to an effective 800-MHz with its Springdale chipset, sources said.

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Intel's next Itanium processor likely will run at 1.5GHz, a 50 percent increase from its predecessor and an indication the company is getting better at meeting development goals for its high-end chip family.

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Internet service America Online has changed its network to block pop-up spam from reaching its customers, the company said Monday.

In a move quickly discovered by spammers, the AOL Time Warner subsidiary made a few technical changes last week to stop a relatively new type of annoying message that uses the Windows messenger service to cause unsolicited marketing to appear on a person's screen.

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