The CEO of Ericsson Australia, New Zealand & Fiji, Sam Saba, has been appointed to head Ericsson in Indonesia.

TomTom continues to expand and consolidate its Asian regional buisiness, and has now taken full control of its Thailand joint venture, increasing its stake from 80 percent to 100 percent.

Navigation devices vendor, TomTom has bought out its Indonesian joint venture partner, PT Navindo, and will rename the company PT TomTom Indonesia.

Mobile phone sales in the Asia Pacific region continue to steam ahead at breakneck speed, fuelled by the three big consumer markets of China, India and Indonesia and boosted by the advent of cheaper smartphones.

Fibre to the premises connections in Asia Pacific are expected to exceed DSL in 2014, a technology industry analyst is predicting.

Global PC shipments may be down but the Asia Pacific market is still growing, though not as strongly as previously expected.

Mobile applications are getting increasingly ambitious. Indonesian telco Telkomsel is offering English lessons via SMS, but for technical complexity Japanese telco NTT Com's dietary advise service takes the biscuit.

Australia's smart grid market is at an evolutionary stage, with many utilities considering smart grids at the same time as trying to validate the usefulness of different smart grid technologies and understand the business case for smart grids.

There’s a silver lining for consumers as voice revenues in the Asia-Pacific’s mobile phone market continue declining over the next five years as intense competition continues to push prices lower.

The Asia Pacific smartphone market is expected to skyrocket in coming years, according to a new forecast by analysts, Frost & Sullivan, who also predict that by 2015 all devices sold in the region will be smartphones, up from only five percent in 2009, and that in both Australia and New Zealand, 62 percent of all devices sold will be smartphones by 2015, up from two per cent in 2009.