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eCommercial.com's interactive e-mail attachment technology, known as eGram, has been approved for use by members of the U.S. House of Representatives in their mass communications to constituents.... By establishing the Communications Research and Development Center, IBM is planning for advances

in network communications. Comprised of scientists and engineers from IBM research and development centers in Zurich; Haifa; Yorktown, N.Y.;and Raleigh, N.C., the Center will concentrate on developing technologies for future network communications components, such as scalable switching systems and advanced switch and router products.... Alcatel says it has shipped more than 350,000 high-speed ADSL lines worldwide in the first half of the year--nearly a four-fold increase in its total ADSL shipments for all of 1998 ... The recently founded Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance added eleven leaders from the personal computer, networking, service provider, and silicon industries to its membership: Alantro, Apple, Breezecom, Cabletron, Compaq, Dell, Intermec, No Wires Needed, Sharewave, Wayport, and Zoom....