Summary: Fujitsu PROGRESSION Named Best of Tech-Ed 2009 Awards Finalist by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, Company to Split Off HDD Business in Reorganization and Issues Notice on Conversion of Fujitsu Business Systems into Wholly Owned Subsidiary.
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(# 6702, Tokyo Stock Exchange)
May 26, 2009 closing price: ¥ 485, - ¥ 6 （- 1.22 %）
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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
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1 - - News Room: Announcements & Press Releases
Fujitsu PROGRESSION Named Best of Tech-Ed 2009 Awards Finalist by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine
SUNNYVALE, CA -- 05/26/09 -- Fujitsu America today announced that its Fujitsu PROGRESSION(TM) legacy system modernization service was named a finalist in the Best of Tech-Ed 2009 awards program in the Software Components & Middleware category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro(R) and SQL Server Magazine(R). The Best of Tech-Ed 2009 Awards recognize companies that offer innovative products for the industry. The judges reviewed more than 170 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 35 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech-Ed 2009 IT Pro Conference in Los Angeles, Calif. Fujitsu PROGRESSION was selected based on innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers. All winners were announced on May 13, 2009, at an evening reception. They are posted at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/www/content/news/newsdetail.php?nf=09504208.nitf
Fujitsu to Split Off HDD Business in Reorganization Tokyo, May 21, 2009 — Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu") today announced that it will split off its hard disk drive business ("HDD business") and merge the business into its wholly owned subsidiary, Toshiba Storage Device Corporation ("Toshiba Storage Device"), through a simple absorption-type separation, on July 1, 2009. In a transaction scheduled for July 1, 2009, Fujitsu will then sell 80.1 percent of its shares of Toshiba Storage Device to Toshiba Corporation ("Toshiba"). By the end of December 2010, Fujitsu plans to sell its remaining 19.9 percent to Toshiba, at which point Toshiba Storage Device will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2009/20090521-02.html
Notice on Conversion of Fujitsu Business Systems into Wholly Owned Subsidiary Tokyo, May 21, 2009 — Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu") and Fujitsu Business Systems Ltd. ("FJB") announced today that they have concluded an agreement to covert FJB into a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu through an exchange of shares. The agreement was approved today by the boards of directors of both companies. FJB will seek approval of the exchange of shares at its Annual Shareholders' Meeting on June 23, 2009. Following approval, the companies plan to carry out the exchange of shares on August 1, 2009. Fujitsu plans to carry out a simple exchange of shares, which, according to Article 796-3 of the Company Law, does not require the approval of shareholders at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2009/20090521-01.html
Fujitsu leads the way in Oracle financial planning deployments for local government London, 21st May 2009 — Fujitsu Services, the IT systems and services company, has become the first systems integrator in the UK enabled to deliver the Oracle E-Business Suite, using Oracle Business Accelerators for Local Government. Business Accelerators are a series of tools which enable Oracle partners, such as Fujitsu, to deliver applications much more quickly and at a lower cost. Fujitsu Services is a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/news/pr/fs_20090521.html
Fujitsu Enhances SAP System Operations and Management Services - Establishes service center with expert personnel -
Tokyo, May 20, 2009 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the establishment of its SAP Service Center, bringing together expert personnel, as part of the company's drive to significantly enhance its operations and management services for SAP systems in Japan. In addition, Fujitsu will begin offering new SAP Solution Manager Configuration Assistance Services to help customers install and set up the software to run their SAP systems more efficiently. The SAP system application-management service Application Management Outsourcing (AMO) and the platform-management service Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) will now be offered through the new center, providing customers with a higher level of service. Through these services, customers will no longer require specialists on staff to operate and manage their SAP systems, minimizing operating costs while maintaining an optimized system with stable uptime and lifecycle oversight.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2009/20090520-01.html
2 - - What's New @ Fujitsu: Web page updates from Fujitsu
Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise increases your sustainability index
Leading Sustainability Activity at Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a Socially Responsible Index Leading Company
Fujitsu is taking a lead in Green activities. This includes minimizing environmental-impact in the areas of industrial pollution and consumption of natural resources in its own businesses, and the creation of strategies and products that shrink energy use in customer datacenters and offices. Fujitsu is also committed to continual assessment of its own environmental standards and conducts corporate-wide environmental sustainability activities, including the disclosure of Sustainability Reports and Environmental Accounting Reports since 1999. Such continuous and proactive activities have led Fujitsu Ltd. to be acknowledged as a leading sustainability-driven company and ranked on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index(*) as an industry category member for 10 years in a row.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterprise/key-reports/featurestory/sparce-feature090512.html?WT.ac=Global_SPARCE_SPARC-greenit0905_mv_090525
3 - - Fujitsu In the News: News about Fujitsu in the Media
Pallab Talukdar Is Now CEO Of Fujitsu India
Prior to this, Pallab was the director, enterprise business with Dell. EFY News Network, May 26, 2009: Fujitsu, a provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace, has appointed Pallab Talukdar as the chief executive officer for the company’s India operations. Prior to this, Pallab was the director, enterprise business with Dell. Pallab brings in a wealth of experience and strategic insight to Fujitsu India.
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=34735&magid=11
Fujitsu Case Study: O2 22 May 2009 - Topics: Mobile - Wireless Communications, GSM -- The client is O2. With its high-speed transmission and 'always on' facility where users only pay for data transfer, GPRS is particularly valuable to business users. After a competitive tendering process between three leading telecoms systems integrators, O2 selected Fujitsu to consult, design, configure, integrate and implement a best-in-class billing system for O2. O2 accepted Fujitsu's recommended billing system for three main reasons namely ease of use, capability to implement new services quickly and service-independent architecture, which will allow O2 to bring new services to market in the shortest possible time.
http://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000651,260129281p,00.htm
Fujitsu, Salesforce.com Ink Sales, Marketing Deal May 20, 2009 By Anil Sharma - TMCnet -- Fujitsu and Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, have signed a sales and marketing agreement whereby Fujitsu (News - Alert) will provide Salesforce CRM cloud applications as well as application development and integration services on Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform.
http://telecom-expense-management-solutions.tmcnet.com/topics/telecom-expense-
management/articles/56450-fujitsu-salesforcecom-ink-sales-marketing-deal.htm
SCANNING ON THE GO
As a veteran traveler who has 3 million miles on American Airlines flights over the past 16 years, I’ve become somewhat of an expert organizer when it comes to packing my travel gear. My luggage is always filled with the essential items that I like to travel with, except for a refill or two of those 3 ounce or less bottles. One thing that has changed over the past few years is the need for a portable scanner. As an executive of a company, I have to be sure that I’m also well equipped with everything I need for my “mobile office”. - Doug Rudolph, Vice President of Product Management and Business Development
Fujitsu Computer Products of America
http://scansnapcommunity.com/updates/485-scanning-on-the-go/
4 - - Internet Speed: Customers, Competitors & Change
Location is the next mobile revolution By Chris O'Brien - Mercury News: 05/25/2009 -- For years, mobile phone users have been asking, "Can you hear me now?" Soon they'll be asking, "Can you find me now?" Over the past year, there has been a quiet revolution in the development of so-called "location-based services," or LBS to the cognoscenti. The ability of a new generation of smart-phones to pinpoint a user's location through the global positioning system or wireless networks has unleashed a wave of innovation in mobile computing.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/opinion/ci_12414903
The Twitterverse has spoken: Twitter TV is a bad idea
Plans for a Twitter-based reality TV show were the talk of Hollywood (and Silicon Valley) on Memorial Day, but 24 hours after the news broke, the Twitterverse is up in arms and even the micro-blogging site's co-founder, Biz Stone, seems to be hedging. "There is no official Twitter TV show - although if there were it would be fun to cast!" Stone wrote late Monday on his blog. "We have a lightweight, non-exclusive, agreement with the producers which helps them move forward more freely."
http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2009/05/26/2009-05-26_twitter_tv_reaction.html#ixzz0Gf3MDmJp&B
Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web May 21, 2009 -- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may seem inadequate to address the issues that arise from the furious rate Internet users are sharing content - By Liz Gannes -- Copyright law wasn't written with today's content consumption in mind. The way online video copyright functions is based on a reading of the 10-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that equates video hosting sites with Internet service providers. That law provides a "safe harbor" for hosts who respond to copyright claims by taking down infringing content "expeditiously." There doesn't seem to be widespread motivation to modernize that process. Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion, claiming YouTube should take more responsibility than the current reading of DMCA requires. But that case is plodding along in the courts. Meanwhile, Internet users are sharing and consuming content at a furious rate. And what's being called the "real-time Web" is even less equipped to deal with copyright infringement.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090521_159692.htm?
campaign_id=rss_topStories
Pew Center illustrates how Craigslist is killing newspapers May 22, 2009 by Greg Sandoval -- It's tough to compete with free. The use of online classifieds sites, such Craigslist, has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a study published Friday by the Pew Research Center. At the same time that Web classifies are on the rise, the classifieds business that newspapers once depended on has collapsed, the Pew Internet & America Life Project found. "Nearly half (49 percent) of Internet users say they have ever used online classified sites," the Pew Center said in the report. In 2005, the percentage was 22 percent. One out of 10 Internet users visits an online classifieds service each day, up from four percent in 2005.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10247668-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Indonesian Muslim clerics frown at Facebook May 22, 2009 - SURABAYA, Indonesia (AFP) - Indonesian Islamic clerics warned Muslims on Friday not to use popular Internet networking sites like Facebook for flirting or gossiping. A on-binding resolution issued after a meeting of hundreds of Islamic scholars from Java and Bali islands warns that using sites like Facebook can lead to pornography and "obscenity." "We forbid the use of Facebook, Friendster and other social networking sites unless they are being used to foster Islamic teaching," a spokesman for the clerics, Abdul Muid Shohib, said.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090522/tc_afp/indonesiaislammediainternet
Pope Uses Facebook To Woo Young Believers * By Reuters - eWEEK - May 22, 2009 -- VATICAN CITY - You won't get an email saying Pope Benedict added you as a friend and you can't "poke" him or write on his wall, but the Vatican is still keen to use the networking site Facebook to woo young people back to church. A new Vatican website, www.pope2you.net, has gone live, offering an application called "The pope meets you on Facebook," and another allowing the faithful to see the Pope's speeches and messages on their iPhones or iPods.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090522/tc_zd/240629
Russian firm invests 200 mln dlrs in Facebook By Charlotte Raab - May 26, 2009 -- A Russian Internet company has invested 200 million dollars in Facebook in a deal that values the US social networking giant at 10 billion dollars, the companies announced on Tuesday. Besides purchasing a nearly two percent equity stake in Facebook, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is also offering to buy at least 100 million dollars of common stock held by current and former Facebook employees, they said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090526/tbs-russian-firm-invests-200-mln-dlrs-in-8cc5291.html
90 Percent of E-mail Is Spam, Symantec Says * By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - May 26, 2009 -- Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported Tuesday that unsolicited e-mail made up 90.4 percent of messages on corporate networks last month. That represents a 5.1 percent increase over last month's numbers, but it's nothing out of the ordinary. For years, spam has made up somewhere between 80 percent and 95 percent of all e-mail on the Internet.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090526/tc_pcworld/90percentofemailisspamsymantecsays
