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• Stormy future ahead for Facebook and MySpace

  Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary -- and for good reason

• Motorola tech chief latest to leave

  Rich Nottenburg, chief strategy and technology officer, has become the latest executive to leave Motorola.

• Symantec and Microsoft bury security hatchet

  Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organisation alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista.

• New Sasser variant indicates copycat script kiddie

  A new version of the Sasser worm has appeared after the arrest of a teenager suspected of writing the original - but it will not be much of a threat to users who have already patched their systems.

• Novell: Identity management more than single sign-on

  Novell has launched an identity management framework designed to help enterprises build an infrastructure that controls employee, partner and customer access to corporate resources.

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• Mesh: The next step for wireless

  Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

• India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

  In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

• Will VoIP really drive convergence?

  Or is convergence just a pipe dream that should be quietly forgotten? Given all the talk about melding voice and data networks, why aren't more companies implementing it?

• Is 802.11g wireless doomed?

  A faster variation on the 802.11b wireless networking standard seems certain to arrive in the market too late to make any real impact. The 802.11g specification may cause little more than confusion, as it will be beaten to the market by the superior 802.11a standard, according to industry spokespeople.

• Spreading your storage eggs

  If Australia ever experiences the kind of widespread power-outage seen in Italy recently, mirrored SANs could provide one way to keep data safe.

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