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March 6, 2009
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Table of Contents1 - - What's New @ Fujitsu: Web page updates from Fujitsu >> Fujitsu M1010 - Colour Your Personality 2 - - Fujitsu In the News: News about Fujitsu in the Media >> Fujitsu Lifebook M1010 Netbook - cramped keyboard lets it down >> CeBit trip for Fujitsu >> CIO: Fujitsu Siemens releases free ebook on storage >> Analysts: Kaz enhances Fujitsu's government footprint >> Fujitsu Goes With ARM Cortex For Automotive Apps 3 - - Internet Speed: Customers, Competitors & Change >> BBC.co.uk: Satyam approved to sell 51% stake >> Is Facebook trying to crush Twitter? >> Green tinge: CeBIT goes eco-friendly >> Making solar cheaper than coal >> Photos: WonderCon's Zap! Boom! and Pow! >> Podcast: Bad Bank (Collapse of banking system >> UPDATE 2-Australia PM says wants local banks to cut fees >> Electric car network coming to Arizona >> Microsoft admits users will be able to turn off IE 8 in Windows 7 >> Flat-TV, Digital Camera Ops Losing Money, But PCs Faring Well >> IBM,HP continue to dominate server market; sector witnesses slowdown in 2008 |
1 - What's New @ Fujitsu: Web page updates from Fujitsu [toc...]
- Fujitsu M1010 - Colour Your Personality [toc...]
2 - Fujitsu In the News: News about Fujitsu in the Media [toc...]
- Fujitsu Lifebook M1010 Netbook - cramped keyboard lets it down [toc...]
March 06, 2009 by Zara Baxter -- A couple of nifty gimmicks and an extended warranty help give this netbook the boost that its ergonomics don't. We're so used to seeing netbooks in the PC Authority offices, after having seen twenty or so arrive on our desks over the last year, that we watch each new netbook keenly for standout features that will lift it above the pack. There's plenty of possibilities to go round, from outstanding screen resolution or quality, to graphics addition, to feature-packed goodies and ergonomics.
- CeBit trip for Fujitsu [toc...]
At CeBIT 2009 Fujitsu Siemens Computers is exhibiting its LIFEBOOK T5010 and LIFEBOOK E8420 laptops, using the company's latest security solutions which combine Absolute® Software Corporation products with Intel® Anti-Theft Technology.
- CIO: Fujitsu Siemens releases free ebook on storage [toc...]
06.03.2009 -- A new electronic book – containing everything you ever wanted to know about storage, but were afraid to ask – has been made available online by Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Do you know your SAN from your NAS? How does iSCSI compare to FC? How close is your near-line storage and what does a VTA do? The answers to all these storage-related questions, and more, can be found in a new book published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), entitled Storage Basics. Getting to grips with the ever-growing flood of data is still the greatest challenge faced by most organisations with regard to information storage.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12442/cio/fujitsu-siemens-releases-free-ebook-on-storage
- Analysts: Kaz enhances Fujitsu's government footprint [toc...]
Julia Talevski 06 March, 2009 -- Fujitsu's acquisition of Kaz from Telstra will generate healthy competition among IT companies in the market, local analysts claim - Analysts claim Fujitsu's acquisition of Kaz will give the services integrator a stronger position in the government sector. Fujitsu purchased Kaz from Telstra for $200 million last week. In a statement, the global outsourcer said the deal would expand its customer base, skills and national footprint and make it Australia's third-largest IT services company by revenue.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/279275/analysts_kaz_enhances_fujitsu_government_footprint
- Fujitsu Goes With ARM Cortex For Automotive Apps [toc...]
05 March 2009 -- Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH has signed a major licensing agreement for the ARM Cortex-R4F processor to use in automotive applications including safety and chassis. In addition to the Cortex-R4F processor, the agreement includes the ARM AMBA Designer tool and ARM CoreSight technology for advanced on-chip debug and real-time trace. The agreement is a significant endorsement of the ARM architecture in the automotive market as manufacturers endeavour to consolidate their automotive functions into a reduced number of more capable processors.
http://www.arm.com/iqonline/news/ARMnews/24563.html
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4 - Internet Speed: Customers, Competitors & Change [toc...]
- BBC.co.uk: Satyam approved to sell 51% stake [toc...]
6 March - Fraud-hit IT firm Satyam has been given the go-ahead to sell most of itself. Indian financial authorities approved plans for the company to sell a 51% stake as it seeks to win back clients and restore customer confidence. Reports suggest computing giant IBM and Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro are frontrunners for the stake. Satyam has struggled since former boss Ramalinga Raju admitting inflating their assets by more than $1bn. Shares in Satyam jumped 18% after the company's state-appointed board got approval to sell the majority holding. Satyam lost more than 80% of its market value following Mr Raju's confession in January. The auction for the stake will be global and potential buyers would need to have assets of at least $150m. The buyer then would not be able to sell its stake for at least three years, Satyam said in a statement. Satyam had been one the biggest players in the booming Indian IT software market, supplying back-office services t! o firms from around the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7927803.stm
- Is Facebook trying to crush Twitter? [toc...]
05.03.2009 -- If you can't buy 'em, then beat 'em at their own game instead. Social-networking site Facebook has introduced real-time status streams that could explode the micro-blogging phenomenon started by Twitter into the mainstream. The service Twitter offers, which allows users to post updates of around 140 words long, has grown to become the world's third-largest social-networking site after Facebook and MySpace, with six million registered users and 55 million monthly visitors.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12429/new-media/facebook-tries-to-crush-twitter
- Green tinge: CeBIT goes eco-friendly [toc...]
06/03/2009 11:21:00 - by Leila Makki -- At Mobile World Congress a slew of new handsets were revealed, all promising to be more eco-friendly. So, its no wonder that at the next industry event, CeBIT in Germany, the theme was also green technology. At the largest wireless trade event, the GSMA introduced a new initiative to standardise a 'universal' charger so that the majority of new phones will use a 'one-size-fits-all' energy-efficient charger by 2012. The benefits from adopting this standard include improving energy efficiency when charging, halving standby power consumption and cutting back on the overall number of chargers being manufactured.
http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=44618&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10&view=news
- Making solar cheaper than coal [toc...]
March 6, 2009 By Martin LaMonica, CNET News -- The day after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Emmanuel Sachs decided that it was time to get back into the solar-energy business. Starting in the 1970s, the Masssachussetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor had made significant contributions to solar, including a cell-making technique now used by Evergreen Solar. But once research funding for solar photovoltaics--converting sunlight into electricity--dried up in the 1980s, Sachs diverted into other fields, including 3D printing to help designers quickly build prototypes.
http://news.cnet.com/Making-solar-cheaper-than-coal/2009-13836_3-6249110.html?tag=nl.e703
- Photos: WonderCon's Zap! Boom! and Pow! [toc...]
March 2, 2009 - SAN FRANCISCO - -WonderCon returned to San Francisco's Moscone Center last weekend and these three Stormtroopers were kind enough to stand guard at the entrance Friday.
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1025_3-10000458.html?tag=nl.e434
- Podcast: Bad Bank (Collapse of banking system
explained in just 59 minutes) [toc...]
The collapse of the banking system explained, in just 59 minutes. Our crack economics team—the guys who explained the mortgage crisis, Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—are back to help all of us understand the news. For instance, when we talk about an insolvent bank, what does it actually mean, and why are we giving hundreds of billions of dollars to rich bankers who screwed up their own businesses? Also, two guys go to New Jersey to look at a toxic asset.
* Download a transcript.
> http://www.thislife.org/extras/radio/375_transcript.pdf
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=375
- UPDATE 2-Australia PM says wants local banks to cut fees [toc...]
* Australian government calls on banks to reduce fees
* Australian banks to draw $3.36 bln household fees in 2009
* High bank fees partly due to lower competition - survey (Adds banking association, ANZ comment, BOQ, details)
SYDNEY, March 6 - The Australian government is lobbying local banks to cut fees, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday, after a report found they were charging some of the rich world's highest banking costs at a time of economic crisis. Rudd, whose government has guaranteed the deposits and wholesale funding of Australia's banks, said he and the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, had recently expressed their concern in talks with local bank executives about high fees and charges. "Absolutely. The Treasurer and I have met again with the banks in recent weeks and we have raised expressly the question of bank fees and charges," Rudd said in a radio interview. "We will continue on this because everyone out there... is facing a really tough time and we don't want to see anyone adding to this burden by unnecessary charges," he added. The report, released by Fujitsu Consulting on Thursday, said Australian households paid about 22 percent more in bank fees than households in Britain and 1! 1 percent more than American households, partly because of weakening bank competition.
http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/markets/100063467-1-update-2-australia-pm-says-wants.html
- Electric car network coming to Arizona [toc...]
March 6, 2009 by Martin LaMonica -- Alternative energy company Ecotality said on Friday that it will supply charging stations in Arizona as part of the planned roll-out of plug-in electric cars from Nissan next year. Nissan North America has committed to making its electric vehicles available to municipal or private organizations in the Tucson, Ariz., area, Ecotality said. Nissan's all-electric sedan is scheduled to be available in certain areas of the U.S. next year.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10190525-54.html?tag=nl.e433
- Microsoft admits users will be able to turn off IE 8 in Windows 7 [toc...]
March 6th, 2009 by Mary Jo Foley -- After a couple of days of "no comments," Microsoft has acknowledged the findings of a pair of bloggers who discovered that starting with the next major test release of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 will be able to be removed. Microsoft officials made this public acknowledgment via the Engineering Windows 7 blog. In a posting, dated March 6, Jack Mayo, the Group Program Manager for the Documents and Printing team, listed a set of Windows 7 features that will be able to be turned on and off by users after the initial Windows set-up.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2235
- Flat-TV, Digital Camera Ops Losing Money, But PCs Faring Well [toc...]
March 06, 2009 - TOKYO (Nikkei)--Although prices have fallen nearly 20% across the board in a year, electronics manufacturers are turning profits with personal computers, but not flat-panel televisions and digital cameras, because they have lowered costs in PC operations through such means as offshoring. The three major players in flat TVs -- Sony Corp. (6758), Panasonic Corp. (6752) and Sharp Corp. (6753) -- are expected to log operating losses this fiscal year in that business. Although global sales volume is forecast to grow 20-40%, the sharp drop in sales since last autumn has caused inventories to pile up. The firms have been forced to slash prices in order get rid of stockpiles, with prices down 18.4% from the peak in 2008. (* Subscription Required *)
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Search/Nni20090305D05JFA07.htm
- IBM,HP continue to dominate server market; sector witnesses slowdown in 2008 [toc...]
TT Bureau - 05 Mar 2009 -- The ongoing recession in US market and the global financial meltdown cast a heavy effect on the worldwide server shipments and revenues in Q4, reveals a Gartner survey. Q4 saw worldwide server revenue decrease by 15 percent to reach $ 13.1 billion. Shipments too fell 11 percent to reach 2.1 million units. For whole year performance, 2008 saw server revenue drop by 4 percent as compared to 2007 figures and shipments increase by only 2.6 percent.
http://www.telecomtiger.com/Corporate_fullstory.aspx?passfrom=topstory&storyid=5559§ion=S162
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Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 160,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.3 trillion yen (US$53 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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Fujitsu's acquisition of Kaz from Telstra will generate healthy competition among IT companies in the market, local analysts claim - Analysts claim Fujitsu's acquisition of Kaz will give the services integrator a stronger position in the government sector.
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