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.
Yet again denial-of-service attacks, spam, viruses - driven in part by an apparent war between virus writers - and cybercrime have hit the headlines over the course of the past 12 months.
The use of e-mail continues to grow, but there are suggestions across the industry that its popularity will begin to decline quickly if measures aren't put in place to guarantee access, availability and security.
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Microsoft is making a bid to change from the company the rest of us blame for security issues - and it is not at all abashed about it.
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.
The arrest of Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 18-year-old thought to be responsible for the spread of the Blaster worm, has once again sparked off the debate into how virus writers should be punished.
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?
Enterprise CRM software company Siebel Systems is trying to halt the flow of smaller companies to rivals such as Salesforce.com
Next year's priorities should be continued cost-cutting and championing of Web services and instant messaging, according to research.
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