Asia/Pacific

Something that might have gone unnoticed from Google this week is the patching of a serious vulnerability that previously allowed an attacker to exploit a weakness in Google's Single Sign-On service used with Google Apps to take over a victim's Google account.  read more »

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association is changing strategy: It has joined forces with the United Nations' lead agency for information technology to further spread its green low-cost laptops to school kids in developing nations around the world.  read more »

Samsung is eyeing a possible acquisition of memory chip-maker SanDisk.  read more »

The nine member consortium that holds most of the important patents covering DVD technology is cutting some of its license rates.  read more »

Sony is recalling 73,000 Vaio TZ laptops because of a possible manufacturing defect that may cause them to overheat, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.  read more »

Sony Ericsson wants Windows Mobile developers to start working on applications for its Xperia X1 and on Wednesday it announced a tailor-made SDK (software development kit) for the upcoming smartphone.  read more »

Ericsson has demonstrated wireless broadband technology that can transmit data at 160Mbps.  read more »

The global NAND flash memory market has been suffering from oversupply all year, keeping chip prices down, and a new factory built by Hynix shows why: companies have built too many new factories.  read more »

Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.  read more »

The popularity of low-cost PCs around the world is driving "explosive growth" for SSDs (small capacity solid state drives), Samsung said Wednesday as it announced three new models of the device.  read more »