More than 170 consumers from China have jointly filed an appeal, requesting the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China to conduct an investigation on the laptop computers made by HP and ordering the company to recall all of its substandard laptop products.

Foreign media cite a report from the United Nations Environment Programme saying that by 2020, the volume of IT related electronic waste products will be four times of that of 2007 and China and India will be the main source of toxic e-waste.

China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

Lin Jialai, the vice director of the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, proposed at a donation ceremony that Chinese companies and individuals donate unused computers to schools in the rural areas.

Long-distance education website Chinaedu.com, an affiliate of Hongcheng Education Group, has donated eight sets of educational resources to the Spring Rain Project and launched eleven aid stations to assist in education in rural areas of China.

Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor, made by Taiwan's VIA Technologies, in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook.

The global financial crisis has hit Chinese PC maker Lenovo and it has announced that it will cut approximately 11% of its total global workforce, and the company expects to report a loss for the fiscal quarter that ended December 31, 2008.