Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Taking it on the road…
This month’s Bridging the Gap focuses primarily on the Fujitsu® mobile product line. This month marks the release of Intel®’s new Santa Rosa product, which is the latest Centrino™ mobile platform, combining core logic, CPU, and networking improvements. In this issue, we also provide several case studies that illustrate how mobile Fujitsu computers (particularly Tablet [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Intel’s important new platform introduced
On May 9th, Intel introduced its new mobile platform which delivers a host of new technologies. The new platform (originally called “Santa Rosa”) is the latest iteration of the Centrino platform, and consists of updated Intel Core™ 2 Duo processors, Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipsets, IEEE 802.11AGN networking, new Turbo Memory technology, and Intel® 82566MM/C [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Farmers Mutual Insurance uses Fujitsu Tablet PC to streamline claims process
Farmers Mutual Insurance of Nebraska is a large mutual company that caters to home, farm, and auto insurance customers in Nebraska and South Dakota. Recently, the company decided to make a major technology upgrade in order to streamline the labor-intensive, paper-based claims process. As part of that effort, the company sought out the best mobile [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
High school adopts Tablet PC technology to enable its students
DePaul High School is a private college prep high school in Wayne, New Jersey. DePaul recently set out to find the ideal technological solution to teach its students the fundamental computer skills they will require in college. The school had decided that they would need a device that would be portable, reliable, and durable. After [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Fujitsu offers NAS connectivity for ETERNUS storage systems
On April 16, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced network attached storage (NAS) connectivity powered by the Network Appliance, Inc. NetApp® V-Series storage virtualization technology. The use of the technology in high-performance ETERNUS®4000 and ETERNUS®8000 storage systems enables customers to consolidate existing fragmented file servers onto a single platform. NAS connectivity lowers the overall total cost [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Enterprise-class LifeBook S2210 is first to participate in “Better by Design” program
In March, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced the LifeBook® S2210 notebook, a thin and light enterprise-class notebook, powered by AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology. This new LifeBook is designed to deliver outstanding performance and exceptional value to the enterprise market.
The four-pound LifeBook S2210 notebook is the first enterprise-class notebook to participate in the [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Boston’s Visiting Nurses Association uses Tablet PCs to help manage paperwork
In the April edition of Health Management Technology, Fran Lorian, Chief Information Officer, VNA of Boston, discusses the important role the Fujitsu LifeBook T4000 convertible Tablet PC took in VNA’s paperwork reduction solution. According to Lorian, “We had four main goals in the business plan that ultimately sold the VNA on an integrated system that [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Fujitsu gets “greener” with its expanded global recycling plan
In March, the Fujitsu Group announced the expansion of its end-of-life IT products-recycling service. In addition to the voluntary recycling service already underway in Australia, Canada, and the US, the service is now offered at one additional location each in Canada and the US. The Fujitsu Group will also expand the service gradually in Southeast [...]