Stories by Jeremy Kirk

Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which now have the ability to email scanned documents.

The strange emails arrived in executives' inboxes around the same time that the Australian oil company was negotiating a deal with a Chinese energy company.

Salesforce.com said on Wednesday it will acquire Heroku, a company that specializes in hosting applications based on the Ruby programming language, for US$212 million.

Skype is dismissing a claim by a small team of Chinese engineers who say they have reverse engineered the protocol used for Skype Internet phone calls.

The British Phonographic Industry is trying to enlist ISPs (Internet service providers) in its battle against illegal file sharing, a move that could allow it to target more music traders and reduce the amount of time it spends in court.

European IT firms are viewed as inflexible and expensive compared to their U.S. and Asian counterparts, traits that could make it hard for them to tap expanding Asian markets, according to a new survey of chief information officers (CIOs) by KPMG LLP and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The idea of Microsoft someday decorating your home or business might be taking the software king's influence a bit too far.
But Microsoft has made a mock-up home, business and cafe as part of a marketing strategy to show its customers exactly how the technology it produces would really work if, say, someone actually used it.

As Google positions itself to be a total online content provider, the question of what is next for the search engine giant might be at least partially forecasted by U.S. journalists Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan.