| Fujitsu laptop offers premium portability | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:03:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Pick up the svelte Fujitsu LifeBook P1610, and you'll barely feel as if you're carrying a notebook PC. And no wonder: At 2.2 pounds, the US$2,419 (AUD$3045, as of 12/18/06) P1610 puts the "ultra" in ultraportable. The P1610 is similar in weight and size to its predecessor, the LifeBook P1510. (It's slightly slimmer at 1.4 inches deep, and it measures 9.1 by 6.6 inches.) Included, however, are several notable improvements, among them a reasonably roomy 80GB hard drive, and a PC Card slot in lieu of the P1510's integrated CompactFlash slot. Furthermore, the 8.9-inch, WXGA swiveling touch-screen display now has a higher resolution --1280 by 768 pixels -- and a proprietary coating that helps optimize how the image looks in bright sunlight. On the touch-screen display, you can use either your fingertips or the included (and exceptionally thin) stylus to navigate.... | |
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| | | Fujitsu takes Magnetic Recording Density to 1Tb Per Square Inch | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:05:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fujitsu has developed a multi-layered optical element for thermal assisted magnetic recording to achieve ultra-high storage capacity. The merging of optical thermal assist and perpendicular recording enables manufacturers to reach capacities around ten times greater than what is now possible for hard disk drives. .... | |
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| | | Fujitsu Introduces New Enhanced Version of its Award-Winning ScanSnap(TM) Scanner for MAC(R) | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:28:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., a market leader in document imaging scanners and services, today introduced an enhanced model of its award-winning Fujitsu ScanSnap(TM) scanning solution for Macintosh(R) users, the S500M, with 20 percent faster scanning speeds, improved automatic paper size detection and a new design that complements Mac(R) computers. Additionally, Fujitsu is offering customers the ability to incorporate optical character recognition (OCR) and business card reader functionality into their ScanSnap S500M applications with a mail-in rebate to receive free copies of Readiris(TM) Pro v11(full) software and Cardiris(TM) 3.5(full) software from I.R.I.S. Group (total value of $248.00 USD). The Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M, supporting Mac OS(R) X v10.4 Tiger(TM) and Intel(R) or PowerPC(R) based computers, not only comes in a sleek, new design complementary to Mac computers, but is also equipped with improved scanning efficiency, producing scanning speeds of up to 18 pages per minute (ppm) for single-sided documents and 36 images per minute (ipm) for double-sided documents.... | |
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| | | Hitachi Losses Widen; Toshiba Profits Up | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:24:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | Toshiba Corp. almost doubled its profits while losses widened at Hitachi Ltd., reflecting a wider divergence in performance among Japanese electronics makers. While most Japanese electronics companies suffered a slump in recent years, battered by competition from cheaper rivals and price drops, some have staged stronger comebacks than others. Toshiba said strong sales of digital products, home appliances and flat-panel displays lifted its profits to 39 billion yen ($337.4 million) in the six months through September, from 14.6 billion yen it booked a year earlier. The profit jump came on a 9 percent increase in first-half sales to 3.162 trillion yen ($26.9 billion), from 2.9 trillion yen the previous year. Its semiconductor business especially boosted its profitability, the company said.... | |
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| | | Computrace: LoJack for laptops | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:22:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | When Starbucks announced late last week that two laptops - each containing personal data on thousands of employees - had gone missing from its Seattle headquarters, the latte purveyor joined a growing list of well-known organizations that have suffered an embarrassing, and potentially costly, computer security breach. Starbucks (Charts) is not alone; In May, a Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst's laptop containing confidential info on 26.5 million veterans, military personnel and their spouses was swiped. Two months earlier, a laptop chock full of data on Fidelity Investments' clients was reported stolen. Ford, AIG and Ameriprise Financial have also suffered similar fates. .... | |
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| | | Sony battery sparked during recall | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:02:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | A FUJITSU ENGINEER who was called around to a punter's house to pick up a Sony battery as part of the company recall got a bit more than he bargained for. According to a spokesFujitsu the engineer was retrieving the laptop when it started to overheat and started to spew forth sparks. The laptop's owner received minor injuries in the incident, which is under investigation, the spokesFujutsu said. We must wonder why anyone needed to turn on the computer to retrieve the battery in the first place. Fujitsu is recalling more than 280,000 lithium-ion laptop batteries made by Sony because microscopic metal particles left inside the battery, can cause them to short circuit. There have been several cases of the batteries overheating and bursting into flames. More here. ยต .... | |
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| | | Fujitsu laptop with Sony battery burns user | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:15:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. said on Friday one of its notebook computers running on a Sony-made battery overheated and sparked earlier this week in Japan, causing minor burns to the hand of a user. Top computer makers including Dell Inc (up $0.03 to $23.40, Charts)., Apple Computer Inc. (Charts) and Fujitsu (Charts) are recalling up to 9.6 million units of Sony batteries, which in rare cases can overheat and catch fire. .... | |
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| | | Notebook makers seek better battery standard | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:10:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | A group of laptop vendors and battery manufacturers plan to announce a standard for making safer lithium ion batteries by 15 June 2007, in an attempt to recover from a massive series of battery recalls in recent months. The new standard will cover "process requirements, quality control and assurance" for all forms of rechargeable lithium ion battery cells, from prismatic to cyllindrical and pouch, according to the Association Connecting Electronics Industries, known as IPC. .... | |
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| | | Fujitsu latest to suffer Sony battery woes | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:31:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | Japanese high-tech giant Fujitsu said today that a defective Sony-made battery pack sent off sparks in one of its laptop computers for the first time, amid a global recall of similar batteries. The user of the computer suffered a slight burn on the hand, in the incident in Japan on Tuesday, said Fujitsu spokesman Toshiaki Koike. Fujitsu was in the process of replacing 51,000 Sony-made battery packs in addition to 287,000 already recalled. Advertisement .... | |
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| | | Birdstep launches support for more than 80% of all HSDPA devices | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:05:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | Birdstep's ACM is unique in the market with regard to the depth and breadth of its device support. ACM currently supports hundreds of PC Cards, mobile phones and embedded modems for laptop vendors such as Fujitsu Siemens, Sony Vaio and Toshiba. New devices are added every week as new devices become available and mobile operators' requirements grow. The September update provides extensive support for seven new HSDPA PC-cards: This recent update means that Birdstep continues to supports more than 80% of the available HSDPA cards on the market today. Birdsteps test procedures for new devices are both stringent and extensive. They are designed to ensure that the interaction between the devices and Birdstep software will live up to the high performance standards set by the company internally and in interaction with customers.... | |
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