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SPIM

(SPam Instant Messaging) Unsolicited advertising appearing in instant messages. SPIM is even more annoying than spam. Unlike email ads, which can often be relegated to a junk folder in the user's email program, a SPIM ad pops up on screen whenever it is sent. See spam and SPIT.
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EMBL said it anticipates Bruker will make SPIM more widely available to the larger biological research community.
It can be observed that the proposed SPIM is particularlysuitable for the dynamical problems of periodic structures.
Maroof, "Analysis and Detection of SPIM using Message Statistics," in Proc.
Superfund Program Implementation Manual (SPIM): Fiscal Year 2011.
Today, there are many different forms of spam, including instant messaging spam ("spim"), blog spam ("blam"), chat spam, mobile phone spam, and online gaming spam.
Kaspersky Hosted IM Security monitors IM clients within the company and provides policy-based protection against threats associated with their use, including IM worms and SPIM (instant messaging spam), as well as the unauthorised exchange of confidential information.
Spim (spam over Instant Messenger) is predicted to rise to 1.2 billion messages this year alone across both consumer & corporate IM platforms, and evidence suggests that nearly 40% of the top viruses are capable of propagation through IM applications.
The title of the project is Integrated Pilot System for Monitoring and Determining the Effects of the Floods in the Lower Siret Basin (SPIM) and its main objective is building-up an advanced system for the management of the emergency situations (Agouris & Croituru, 2005).
Este es el caso de los mensajes de correo de voz o llamadas telefonicas indeseables (spit), las avalanchas de mensajes instantaneos (spim) y las "interferencias" de video (spiv).
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