Researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Trusteer have identified two different malware samples that have clearly taken on Zeus components to make it more complex and dangerous. – Shortly after the source code for the Zeus banking Trojan
was leaked earlier this year, security researchers predicted malware
developers would add Zeus features to existing malware to create complex and sophisticated variants. Researchers identified two such samples this week.
Portions of Zeus c…

While it’s easy to think of the world’s technology corporations as big, faceless companies housed in drab buildings far out in suburban areas, some of today’s leading technological institutions& be they educational or commercial& are bucking the vanilla-box trend and experimenting with architectural designs meant to evoke the spirit of their products and their corporate image. Apple’s recently released renderings for its new Cupertino, Calif., "spaceship" headquarters have drawn wide praise for the campus’s futuristic, high-tech look& it certainly looks like something Apple officials would build if they ever delved into architecture. Apple isn’t the only company looking to make a statement, though. Facebook’s new campus will emphasize (what else?) a sense of community and will be thoughtful of its youthful employees, while Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com are focusing on reducing their carbon footprint and burnishing their green technology credentials. Not all of the most inspired architecture is found in the United States, however. Giant Interactive’s Shanghai headquarters in China looks like it dropped out of the Blade Runner universe, and the Sony Center complex in Berlin feels like a cross between Times Square and a giant circus tent. – …

Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer some tweaks to file management, particularly in how files are copied between locations, according to an official blog post. – Microsofts trickle of official details
about Windows 8 continues at a steady pace, with a new corporate blog posting
that details the new-and-improved copy experience.
Small potatoes, you say? According to
Microsoft, thats not the case.
?Copying, moving, renaming, and
deleting are far and awa…

Google Labs is winding down this year, with gradual shutter dates for all of the experiments. Google Squared and several more services have had their morgue tickets punched. –
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has arranged some more closing dates
for its various Google Labs Web services as part of CEO Larry Page’s plan to put quot;more
wood behind fewer arrows. quot;
That is Page’s code for focusing on more strategic aspects of the company’s
business, such as search, Google+, …

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned. Those five powerful words raced across the Web and TV screens around the world Aug. 24 after the market closed. The price of Apple’s stock retreated steeply after the news broke, but made good the overnight losses by Thursday morning. After all, Jobs is handing off the CEO chair to COO Tim Cook once again. But there hardly seems to be any reason for concern about the company’s future. Apple is in absolute peak form, rising from bleak days in the ’90s to become the most valuable tech company in the world with cash reserves of $76 billion, nearly double what Google enjoys. Jobs led Apple’s revolution of the personal computer, music player, smartphone and tablet, an improbable grand slam in the computing industry. Jobs’ resignation naturally has reverberated around the high-tech blogosphere with heart-felt comments from numerous high-tech luminaries, such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, as well as IT industry pundits and journalists weighing in on the topic. eWEEK collects some of those comments in this slide show. – …

High availability, storage and networking capabilities also get a work over. – VMware vSphere 5.0 continues to set the pace for data center x86
server virtualization and remains the clear leader for IT managers who need a
virtual infrastructure that can handle production workloads while containing
operational costs.
The vSphere 5.0 ship date is imminent
but as yet undisc…

Samsung announced the availability of the software development kit (SDK) for its Bada 2.0 mobile operating system. – Samsung has announced the availability of the Bada 2.0 Software Development Kit, an application development tool for Samsung’s mobile platform.
Bada 2.0 is expected to be a catalyst in expanding
the global distribution of Bada smartphones, which have already
received significant global sales, th…

Jive Software is going public with a $100 million IPO, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company competes with Microsoft, IBM and others. –
Jive Software Aug. 24 filed for an initial public
offering worth $100 million, a bid to follow LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) as the second public company that provides
social media software for businesses.
There is no set date for the IPO.
Jive’s core product, Jive Engage Platform, helps
colleagues…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned, but Apple will remain a considerable force in the tech world for some time to come, according to analysts. – Apple CEO
Steve Jobs resignation has sparked off a not-unexpected flurry of analysis and
commentary from across the technology industry.
In a letter to
Apples board of directors and employees, Jobs suggested he could ?no longer
meet my duties and expectations as Apples CEO.? He asked the board …

The user interface in the latest release, BBEdit 10, has been reworked a bit, with lists of recently used documents and new project management features, including the ability to save windows displaying multiple documents as a project. The HTML markup tools have also been overhauled in BBEdit 10 to now allow the use of any available attribute when creating or editing an element or an elements attributes; the application presents valid ?completions? for the valid attributes of the element. Application support data can now be maintained in a Dropbox folder, allowing users to share supporting files between BBEdit installations. After the interface improvements, the cleverest new feature of BBEdit 10 is the support for seamlessly editing text files that are stored within a ZIP file. BBEdit 10 will extract the text document from the archive, and if the user saves changes, recompress the document in the archive. This even works when performing a search-and-replace across multiple files. – …

Nokia’s three new smartphones run Symbian Belle, while the company debuts two low-cost models for emerging markets. – Handset maker Nokia
announced the launch of three smartphones, including Symbian Belle software.
The Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600 extend the range of available designs,
features and functionality in the Nokia Symbian smartphone range, and Symbian Belle
powers all three, with single-tap nea…

AMD has named Rory Read, the president and COO of Lenovo, as its new CEO, replacing Dirk Meyer, who resigned in January. – Eight months
after Dirk Meyer resigned as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, the worlds
second-largest chip maker has found a replacement from the executive ranks of
PC vendor Lenovo.
AMD on Aug. 25
announced that Rory Read is the company’s new president and CEO. Read most
recently was president a…

For a new computer user, working with mouse for navigation requires some practise. Even for PC experts, different mouse speed settings can annoy like hell. Hence, mouse speed settings is very important for comfortable usage and navigation. In Windows, you can easily configure and customize various mouse settings including the double click mouse speed. With [...]

The CT scan goes into use in the United States. Lives will be saved. Originally known as a CAT scan — for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography — the process uses a series of X-rays to create sequential images of virtual slices of body tissue.

The app offers a contact center environment to provide managers with a view of all communications activities. – Business communications
specialist Fonality unveiled Heads Up Display (HUD) Mobile, an application
designed for small and midsize businesses. Through the flexibility of Apple or
Android platforms, HUD Mobile delivers access to cloud-based voice over IP,
unified communications (UC) and contact ce…

There is momentum building for individual business groups and units within an organization to seek out cloud solutions. – Momentum
behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move
from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to
research published by CompTIA, the nonprofit trade association for the IT
industry. More than half (56 percent) of the organization…

There is momentum building for individual business groups and units within an organization to seek out cloud solutions. – Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to research published by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry. More than half (56 percen…

Sometimes good articles appear in unexpected places. Came across this one on an Aussie website more aimed at consumers than the trade, but the writer has very neatly put the current situation of the auto industry – and especially the premium brand high-rollers – in a bit of perspective. Good read, intelligent. 

Loved the stuff about Mercedes’ ‘secret weapon’ – the Sprinter van - in the US sales numbers stakes…

Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz: Unstoppable, for now