Archive for April 4th, 2008
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Fujitsu computers reach more milestones, garner more awards
This month in Bridging the Gap, we focus on the Fujitsu mobile products. Recently, Fujitsu announced a significant milestone — the 20 millionth personal computer produced by Shimane Fujitsu Limited. It took twelve and a half years to reach the 10 million unit milestone, and only four and a half years to reach 20 million. [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Shimane Fujitsu marks production of 20 millionth PC
On February 22, Fujitsu Limited announced that Shimane Fujitsu Limited, which manufactures personal computers for the Fujitsu Group, passed the significant manufacturing milestone of 20 million computers.
Shimane Fujitsu started operations on October 1, 1990 as a desktop computer manufacturing plant. In 1995, desktop computer production was transferred to Fujitsu Isotec Limited, and Shimane Fujitsu currently [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
LifeBook P8010 notebook wins Best of FOSE Award for Portable PCs
At the FOSE Conference and Exposition held in Washington D.C. this week, the Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 notebook won the GCN Best of FOSE Award in the Portable PC category. The annual competition designates the best new products showcased at the conference.
As in years past, the Government Computer News Lab oversaw the selection process, which picked [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
“Enhancing Business Mobility with Pen Computing” webcast available
For years pen-enabled computing devices have enjoyed great success and acceptance in highly vertical industries like delivery services, auditing, and POS.
The primary limitations of early pen computing devices, which were the hurdles to early mainstream adoption, were the power limitations of the devices, no stable OS environment for application development, and the lack of a [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Fujitsu LifeBook S6150 rated as one of the greenest available
In a recent issue of PC Magazine, the Fujitsu LifeBook S6510 was rated 4 out of 5 as one of the greenest desktops and laptops on the market today. In their effort to determine the most environmentally-friendly systems, PC Magazine states that “2008 will go down as the year the industry made a concerted effort [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
ETERNUS systems receive Microsoft Simple SAN designation
The Fujitsu ETERNUS2000 and ETERNUS4000 Storage Systems were recently designated as Microsoft Simple SAN (Storage Area Network) components. The Simple SAN program is designed to simplify SAN installation and reduce the costs of Windows server environments by reducing their complexity.
The Simple SAN designation provides further proof of the simplicity and ease of use of the [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Fujitsu becomes first Japanese contributor member of the Green Grid Consortium
On March 24, Fujitsu Limited announced that it had become a Contributor Member of the Green Grid, the first Japanese company to take a leadership role in the global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
The membership will help to promote Fujitsu’s initiatives to improve the energy efficiency of [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Fujitsu receives Novell YES Certification for SLED on four LifeBooks
On March 16, at the opening day of BrainShare 2008, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced that the Fujitsu LifeBook U810, LifeBook T2010, and LifeBook P1620 ultra-portable convertible notebooks, and the LifeBook S6510 thin and light notebook have been YES Certified by Novell. The certification means the notebooks have been stringently tested for compatibility with SUSE [...]