Sony Ericsson has appointed John Featherstone as managing director for the Oceania region.

Kingston Technology's Australian office has confirmed details of the product recall and replacement of the secured USB drives that weren't very secure.

A major flaw in the password handling procedures in some supposedly secure 'thumb drives' makes them trivially easy to unlock.

Microsoft is licensing its exFAT file system for flash memory. Sony, Canon and Sanyo are among the first licensees.

The new SDXC or “eXtended Capacity” format, promising cards with up to 2TB of storage, has now come to life with Pretec announcing its first 32GB SDXC card, although shipments of the card haven’t yet started as no SDXC compatible devices are yet available to buy.

HTML clipboardSanDisk Corporation has announced its latest G3 family of solid-state drives, using multi-level cell flash memory technology to establish new benchmarks in performance in the SSD industry.

Just as most CDs are DRM-free, so are SanDisk’s new “slotMusic” microSD cards, offering music in “up to 320kbps” DRM-free MP3 format. Available in stores pre-loaded with music from a range of popular artists and selling at an RRP of US $14.95 each, with some packaged with a Shuffle-like SanDisk player (on sale for US $20 alone) for a total of $34.95, is this a new front in the digital music revolution, or a waste of time in the face of the download reality?

Professional photographers in Australia and NZ will likely be smiling at the availability of SanDisk’s Extreme IV 16GB card, matching SanDisk’s “Ducati Edition” in speed but doubling the capacity, although at AUD $450 a pop you’ll need to be a pro-photographer to pay for it!

Seagate, the world’s largest hard disk manufacturer, is slowly making the move towards the solid state disk (SSD) space, but faces fierce competition from the very NAND manufacturers it will buy its NAND memory from.

The 16GB barrier has been broken for the microSDHC and M2 (Memory Stick Micro) formats with SanDisk set to launch 16GB models in October. It gives added weight to its “Wake up your phone” campaign, forces phone manufacturers to work on firmware updates that are 16GB compatible and further shames Apple into rethinking its policy of omitting memory card expansion for its mobile devices.