Stories by Jeremy Kirk

IT laughs at itself

A British TV show has taken the best and worst of IT administrator stereotypes and packed them into a clever, side-splitting comedy.

Skype, iSkoot sign mobile phone deal

Skype will help market an application that will put its contact list and VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and instant messaging services on high-end mobile phones.

Linspire releases Freespire 1.0 early

Linspire has released Freespire 1.0, an open-source Debian version of the Linux OS, one month early, the company said Wednesday.

Sun layoffs continue as part of restructuring

Sun Microsystems laid off workers in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia on Friday as part of belt tightening that is expected to claim up to 5000 jobs at the beleaguered company.

F-Secure detects aggressive mobile worm variant

Mobile phone malware writers are up to no good again. A security vendor has detected a new variant of an aggressive Russian mobile worm that uses some alarming new tricks.

Lenovo vows to improve supply chain

Lenovo Group, heir to IBM's PC business, plans to change its supply chain to improve the company's margins in a tightening PC market, executives said Thursday.

Intel issues patches for wireless vulnerabilities

Intel has issued patches for three vulnerabilities for its wireless hardware and software.

McAfee to issue patch on Wednesday for vulnerability

McAfee will issue a patch on Wednesday for a vulnerability affecting its SecurityCenter application, a security software management tool.

Salesforce.com growing its European business

Although Salesforce.com's professional services business had higher revenue growth than the company overall, it would rather leave that market to others, according to the head of European operations.

Trojan cloaks itself as Firefox extension

Security vendor McAfee has detected a new piece of malicious software that masquerades as part of the Firefox Internet browser.

AMD vows to break Intel's 'monopoly grip'

With its acquisition of ATI Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is hoping to break Intel's "monopoly grip" on the chip market by offering more flexibility to PC makers and moving into emerging markets, according to an AMD executive.

Next Debian release to support AMD64 chips

The next release of the Debian Project's Linux distribution will run on Advanced Micro Devices's AMD64 processors for the first time, according to the organization's Web site.

Microsoft offers new beta of Exchange Server 2007

Microsoft has released a new beta version of Exchange Server 2007 and the beta for an accompanying antivirus product, Forefront Security for Exchange.

Ad dishes up adware to more than a million PCs

More than one million users of MySpace.com and other Web sites may have been infected with adware spread by a banner advertisement, according to iDefense, a computer security group.

Databases assaulted by SQL injection attacks

Hackers are striking databases in record numbers, trying to pilfer a rich trove of personal and financial data, a security vendor said Wednesday.