Asia/Pacific

Australia's biggest banks, telcos, and utilities have handed sensitive data to government for the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) against terrorism and natural disasters.  read more »

Chinese data centre managers have a lot on their agenda this year as apparent from the findings of Symantec's 2010 State of the Data Center study.  read more »

Oracle's integration of Sun Microsystems' product suite will offer medium- to large-size Australian organisations with a highly attractive vertically integrated solution, according to IBRS advisor Dr Kevin McIsaac.  read more »

African governments are banking on renewed relations with China to spread communication networks into underserved and rural areas, but their use of condition-free Chinese loans for funding has raised concern in a continent rife with corruption and poor governance.  read more »

Notion Ink, a start up in Hyderabad, India, has developed a touchscreen tablet PC running the Android OS.  read more »

Facebook has seen an almost fourfold increase in the number of visitors to its Web site from Japan in the last year but the site still lags far behind market-leader Mixi, according to data released on Thursday by NetRatings Japan.  read more »

Dell entered the social media space more than three years ago and this move has enabled the computer giant to expand connections with customers, says Lionel Menchaca, the chief blogger for Dell's virtual community.  read more »

Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an "upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks" form onto their Web sites.  read more »

Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services company, said Wednesday that it had called off talks for an alliance with MTN Group of South Africa.  read more »

Absent-minded people who lose their smart phones have had a win and thieves who steal mobile devices have had another setback, with the Singapore launch of a new mobile phone security product.  read more »