The worst is still not over for the telecoms industry as BT announces another round of swathing job cuts.

How much do you earn? If you are a London-based IT worker the news is not good.

Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs – but not to TrustDefender.

How much did you pay for your iPhone 3G? Too much, I suspect is the most common reply. Now, as the credit crunch starts biting hard, one enterprising soul thought the time must be right to try and flog the world's most expensive iPhone.

The economic crisis has started to really take aim at the IT market, and the latest companies in the cross-hairs would appear to be Dell, IBM and Lenovo.

Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.

Linux has been doing pretty well in China, with recent year-on-year sales going through the roof. However, there can be no escaping the global economic crisis, not even for Chinese Linux.

File under no surprise there then: the latest IDC EMEA Server Tracker figures, factory revenue in the EMEA server market has shown the biggest quarterly decline since 2005, and Western Europe is to blame.

With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.

File under: this has been a bad week for technology workers. As the economy continues to squeeze technology companies, staff are set to get crunched by swathing job cuts at BT, Sun and Yahoo!