News From Fujitsu - 3/23/2009
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Table of Contents
1 - - News Room: Announcements & Press Releases
2 - - What's New @ Fujitsu: Web page updates from Fujitsu
3 - - Fujitsu In the News: News about Fujitsu in the Media
4 - - Internet Speed: Customers, Competitors & Change
1 - - News Room: Announcements & Press Releases
KemFine enters into a renewed ICT service agreement with Fujitsu
Helsinki, Finland, March 17, 2009 — Organic fine chemicals manufacturer KemFine Oy and ICT services supplier Fujitsu Services Oy have renewed their agreement on ICT managed services known as the Patja services in Finland. The agreement spans three years. The Patja collaboration of these two companies dates back to 2005. The services cover approximately 140 workstations, 12 servers as well as data communications, product services, mobile and telephony services.http://www.fujitsu.com/fi/news/pr/20090317-en.html
Nice to found a new consultant company
Helsinki, Finland, March 9, 2009 — Nice-business Solutions Finland Oy will set up an affiliate company, Nice-business Consulting Oy (Ltd), which will start operating on 1 April 2009. The new company, Nico, will be Nice’s answer to a new trend in the labour market, where experienced ICT professionals have started to seek for more flexibility in their employment relation. At the same time Nice’s customers want to procure consulting that answers their business needs precisely and promptly. ”Nice is responding to the change we’ve detected in the labour market by starting this very contemporary ICT consulting company. We’ll be offering an alternative and a flexible option to business-minded and experienced ICT professionals” says Nice’s Managing Director Jouko Seppä.http://www.fujitsu.com/fi/news/pr/20090309-en.html
2 - - What's New @ Fujitsu: Web page updates from Fujitsu
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/3 - - Fujitsu In the News: News about Fujitsu in the Media
Fujitsu Siemens gets prestigious web server award
March 20, 2009 -- Results of an independent study on server performance, undertaken by SPECweb2005, have awarded the Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX600 S4 with the tile of world’s best performing web server. Upon announcement of the award, Fujitsu Siemens issued the following statement: “Fujitsu Siemens Computers continues to come out on top in this fast volley of high benchmark scores. Just three months ago, the company held the previous SPECweb2005 world record with a score of 47,504. Then, a US server vendor took back the record with a score of 50 013. Now Fujitsu Siemens Computers has set another new world record with a score of 51 395, retaking the laurels for the SPECweb benchmark.”
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=2419
Thursday, March 19 (BizWorld) -- Fujitsu Ireland has said businesses need to do more than just make cuts to fight their way out of the recession. "You cannot cut your way to success, value must be created as part of the response to the recession and we must define a new way to lead our businesses," said Regina Moran, chief executive of Fujitsu at Fujitsu's Executive Event.
http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2382317;s=rollingnews.htm
Color Me Flepia: Fujitsu Launches E-Reader
They Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors ... For those who don't read Playboy for the articles, Fujitsu has an e-book for you. Dubbed the Flepia, the device is what the company calls the world's first color e-book -- it can display 260,000 colors. Quite a difference from Amazon.com's Kindle black and white e-book, which retails for $359.
http://www.crn.com/retail/215901306
By Josh Quittner Thursday, Mar. 19, 2009 -- Good news for old-media sufferers! On Wednesday, Fujitsu announced the world's first color e-reader. It renders text as cleanly as a printed page, displays 260,000 colors, weighs three-quarters of a pound and is connected to the Net via WiFi. It costs $1,000, a price tag that's probably three times too high, which is typical for products aimed at early adopters.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1886268,00.html?xid=rss-business
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 and S1500M Scanners
Fujitsu introduces two ScanSnap scanners, the black S1500 for PC and the white S1500M for Mac. The high-speed ScanSnap S1500 scanner offers a 20ppm color scanning and one-button searchable PDF creation.http://www.itechnews.net/2009/03/19/fujitsu-scansnap-s1500-and-s1500m-scanners/
4 - - Internet Speed: Customers, Competitors & Change
Japanese computer parts makers to lay off 3,750 workers in Philippines, reports say
March 19, 2009 -- Two Japanese computer parts makers will lay off 3,750 of their factory workers in the Philippines because of weakening demand, media reports and officials said Thursday. MANILA, Philippines -- Two Japanese computer parts makers will lay off 3,750 of their factory workers in the Philippines because of weakening demand, media reports and officials said Thursday. Fujitsu Computer Products Philippines, which manufactures hard disks, has informed the Philippine Export Zone Authority it will dismiss 1,750 workers in coming months, according to Elmer San Pascual, a spokesman for the authority, which oversees industrial parks around the country. The factory employed 5,000 as of December. Local media quoted Philippine Labor Secretary Marianito Roque as saying TDK Fujitsu Philippines Corp. will lay off 2,000 workers from a factory that makes magnetic heads for computers. Roque did not return phone calls.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008886475_apphilippineslayoffs.html
BY PAUL VECCHIATTO , ITWEB CAPE-- [ Cape Town | ITWeb, 20 March 2009 ] - Local company Computer Storage Services (CSS) has developed a non-invasive method of recovering data from failed Seagate hard drives, particularly the wonky Barracuda 7200.11 range that has a high failure rate. International media reports since January have cited numerous examples of the Seagate products locking down without any ability to recover data. Seagate has issued a firmware update, but if the drives have failed already, then it is impossible to install it. The international hard drive manufacturer has said it will not issue a general recall of the product because the failure rate is below its threshold to do so. A major problem with the hard drive failures is that once the disk is inoperative, it is all but impossible to either load the firmware and continue normal operations, or recover data that organisations need. This means Seagate's firmware upgrade has to be installed before the hard drive fails, which for many is too little and far too late. The solution: CSS MD James Grcic says his company has developed a method that is non-invasive, meaning the drive does not have to be physically opened, allows it to start up again, gets the firmware loaded and then recovers the data. The solution, which was developed with the help of a former Fujitsu engineer from the Philippines, requires an electrical pulse to be sent to the hard drives chipset, at a specific frequency, at a specific time during the start up phase. This unlocks the drive to allow the firmware update to be loaded and then the data is recovered.
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/hardware/2009/0903201038.asp?O=FPTOP&S=Innovations&A=INV
Silicon Valley Churn: Reinventing the datacenter, Cisco-style
March 19, 2009 -- In a week when Cisco, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel and AMD were all featured prominently in the news cycle, I got the feeling that the whole industry might be on the cusp of a realignment. On Monday, Cisco formally announced its intentions to become a major player in the systems and services market. In a webinar telecast that delivered more industry buzzwords per minute than I've heard in years, Cisco managed to bring all the hot trends in IT -- virtualization, cloud computing, unified fabrics, multicore, open source, and so on -- under its new Unified Computing System (UCS) architecture. In a nutshell, UCS will be implemented as Cisco-branded blade servers with embedded management software that virtualizes compute and storage systems. The company is promoting UCS as a way for datacenters to consolidate infrastructure under a single hardware/software platform -- a sort of proto-cloud, if you will.
http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Silicon-Valley-Churn-41534992.html?ref=992
Programmer replaces missing finger with thumb drive
Arjun Ramachandran - March 18, 2009 -- A computer programmer who lost half his finger after his motorbike crashed into a deer has had the finger replaced with a USB drive. Jerry Jalava, from Finland, says the two-gigabyte prosthetic finger is not permanently attached to his hand, allowing him to leave his finger in the computer slot and "pick it up after I'm ready". The silicon prosthetic looks like a normal finger, but can be peeled back at the tip to reveal the USB drive. Mr Jalava uses the drive as storage for "photos, movies and other useful files", The Telegraph said. "When Jerry told doctors what he did for a living they joked he should have a USB 'finger drive' but that was good enough for him, and he set about making one," the paper said.http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/18/1237054871449.html
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