Toshiba recalls more Sony batteries

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., along with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries containing Sony cells used in Toshiba notebook computers. The batteries were manufactured in China.

The lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers. The affected models are as follows: Satellite A100, Satellite A105 and Terca A7 laptop models.

Serious flaws patched in Norton products

Symantec has revealed the presence of critical vulnerabilities in Norton AntiVirus 2006, Norton Internet Security 2006, Norton Internet Security – Anti Spyware Edition 2005 and Norton System Works 2006, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain control of a Windows PC.

According to Secunia, these bugs allow code to be injected onto a computer and executed with the user’s privileges. Visiting a crafted website is sufficient to become infected with malware via this vulnerability.

Symantec has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities.

Google Charging for Extra Shared Storage

Google Inc. began selling expanded online storage, aimed at users with large picture, music or video file collections.  Google said the storage can be used across several Google products, including photo site Picasa and the e-mail service Gmail.

The annual prices established were $20 for 6 gigabytes of online storage, $75 for 25 GB, $250 for 100 GB and $500 for 250 GB.