Spam that targets instant-messaging users is on the rise, but analysts say the problem won't be as disruptive as unsolicited e-mail. As spammers face legal action from the Can-Spam Act, they are ...

Visualising cell behaviour has been the goal of many techniques developed in the 20th and 21st century. Cells were initially visualized after removing from the organism after death. However, real-time ...

COMMENTARY--If your business has not figured out how to control instant messaging (IM), you are in for a rude awakening. Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is ...

Last week, Akonix issued a press release discussing the fundamental differences between Spim (spam sent via instant messaging systems) and e-mail-based spam. Understanding the differences between the ...

Experts predict that unwanted IMs have the potential to wreak just as much havoc as spam. Instant-messaging spam – or spim, as it’s often called – is beginning its march into the corporate world. Spim ...

Coming soon to the instant messaging program on your desktop -- "spim." Assuming that it hasn't already arrived, that is. Spim is to chat clients what spam is to e-mail -- unsolicited messages from ...

At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Bruker announced the release of the MuVi SPIM CS light-sheet fluorescence microscope for imaging optically cleared samples. The MuVi SPIM ...

Some 42% of America’s 134 million online adults use instant messaging and almost a third of those instant message users (30%) have gotten “spim” – or unsolicited commercial instant messages. That ...

While the torrent of unsolicited spam emails continues to rise, it is being far outpaced by the surge in unwanted messages sent to the users of instant messaging programs, analysts have warned. The ...

The mammalian brain is a multiscale system. Neuronal circuitry forms an information superhighway, with some projections potentially stretching dozens of centimetres inside the brain. But those ...

With the advance of semiconductor industry, the traditional electronic integrated circuit is approaching its limit in bandwidth and energy consumption. Compared to electronic integrated circuits, ...

Spam aimed at instant messengers is on the rise. As corporations adopt IM, how big a threat will unsolicited messages prove to be? Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...