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• Intel switches on 'first virtual retail salesperson in Asia'

  Silicon solutions firm Intel Malaysia has launched the Intel Virtual Retail Salesperson (RSP) to enhance consumers' IT shopping experience in a mall.

• When and how to deploy e-health records tech

  Over the next two years, 58 per cent of small physician practices plan to roll out electronic health records. And by 2014, the US Federal Government wants more than half of all healthcare facilities to use EHRs.

• Dell offering first encryption product

  Dell Wednesday announced its first endpoint encryption product, along with the possibility of factory installation on certain Dell PCs.

• Juniper defends poky pace on IPv6-enabling its Web site

  It's surprising that Juniper will admit to being two years behind arch-rival Cisco at anything, let alone a development related to IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol.

• Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones

  Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have joined forces to build a mobile commercial payment network that will let customers use smartphones as credit cards.

• 500 million people will be using mobile health apps by 2015

  Smartphone apps are set to become the killer health care product as a research report projects that some 500 million people will be using them within five years.

• Gemalto launches credit card with built-in password generator

  Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and payment transactions.

• Man pleads guilty to $4.8 million ATM fraud

  The general manager of a business partner of Connecticut's Domestic Bank has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that siphoned millions from automated teller machines.

• Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing

  Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing.  In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions.

• A small manufacturing company rolls out iPad: 3 tips

  At Industrial Mold & Machine's 29,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Twinsburg, Ohio, a wall divided computer savvy office workers and shop floor workers unfamiliar with technology. Hence, communication between the two groups came in the form of e-mails sent from office computers to a handful of often-neglected PCs stationed around the shop floor.

• YouTube, e-discovery software among tech tools for war crime investigators

  War crimes -- brutal genocide, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, torture -- have spurred international efforts by the United Nations to investigate and convict those deemed responsible, wherever they have occurred. And according to those involved in prosecuting war crimes in once war-torn places such as the former Yugoslavia, Cambodia and Rwanda, modern technology related to e-discovery and multi-lingual translation is playing a critical role in the ongoing process to find justice for victims.

• Microsoft's anti-Zeus tool cleans quarter-million PCs

  Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.

• Zeus botnet gang targets Charles Schwab accounts

  Criminals are using a Zeus botnet to pillage Charles Schwab investment accounts, a security researcher said Friday.

• Bluetooth low-energy spec to help shipments reach 2B in 2013

  The recession in 2009 led to a small reduction in Bluetooth devices shipped globally, but upcoming low-energy Bluetooth devices will trigger renewed growth in those short-distance wireless devices, especially for phones and industrial and medical gear.

• Credit Suisse saves power with virtualization

  Banking giant Credit Suisse has found a way to stem its seemingly ever-growing need for electricity, through the use of virtualization.