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Technology to fight spyware, remotely controlled bots and other threats will dominate news from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, as antivirus and e-mail security companies offer new products and features to protect companies and Internet users from sophisticated, malicious code.

Comdex is dead, long live CES: Las Vegas will be packed this week with products ranging from humungous TVs to home entertainment servers, smart cars, portable music and video players, and wireless devices. The 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show will draw over 120,000 attendees and more than 2400 exhibitors. Only the massive CeBIT show in Germany exceeds the sheer volume of attendees, exhibitors, and announcements expected at the 2005 CES show, which opens Thursday and runs through Sunday.

Sun Microsystems this week is set to announce its UltraSparc IV+ microprocessor, the last significant upgrade to the company's processor line before it begins shipping the redesigned chips it calls "throughput computing" processors, and hands over the task of building chips for the bulk of its systems to Fujitsu.

Sun Microsystems is preparing to launch two systems that will bring its UltraSparc IV processor into the low end of the company's server product line. Called the Sun Fire V490 and V890, the servers are slated to be introduced during Sun's Network Computing quarterly product announcement on September 21, Sun said.

California-based software design company Electronics for Imaging Inc. (EFI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) filed suit against 94 companies last week, including Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. alleging infringement on their patented image-editing software, an EFI representative confirmed Monday.

A slow economy may have put the squeeze on IT budgets, but many users at the Comdex Fall trade show were still in a buying mood, on the lookout for storage, wireless technology and Microsoft Corp.'s recently released Windows XP operating system.

DataPlay Inc., which has developed a new type of storage for digital media players and recorders, is planning to see both its postage-stamp-sized discs and gadgets that use them on store shelves in the first quarter of 2002, company executives said this week.

This was supposed to be Cindy Low's first visit to Comdex. But a combination of factors, including the economic slowdown and increased security fears, helped convince the Singapore-based marketing manager for network equipment vendor Linksys Group to cancel her trip.

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. launched an external drive for its ID Photo optical disk system this week at World PC Expo.

Seiko Epson has introduced a digital photography technology that provides a link between digital cameras and photo printers to produce consistent photographic prints from capture to output.

Fujitsu and Sony unveiled the latest upgrade to the Magneto Optical (MO) rewritable optical disc here Wednesday, a day before the CeBIT trade show starts. The two companies are showing prototypes of new drives and discs that can hold up to 2.3G bytes of data -- almost double the current highest capacity disk.