Jul 18

Fujitsu’s sleek FUTRO S100 gets VIA Eden implant

Posted in: nettop, processor, Today's Chili

By and large, thin clients are relatively boring. That said, they’re typically dead silent and plenty powerful to handle the most basic of tasks, and thanks to Fujitsu, this one’s even halfway easy on the eyes. The new FUTRO S100 was revealed today, complete with a 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor that enables the entire system to suck down just 11 watts under full load. Other specs include 1GB of DDR2 memory, a pair of USB 2.0 connectors, VGA output, Ethernet, a VX800 media processor, Chrome9 HC3 graphics and internal CF-based storage support. There’s nary a mention of price, but it’s ready to ship today for those with the correct change.

[Via HotHardware]

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Jun 03

Fujitsu’s vibrant M2010 netbook gets reviewed: “too little, too late”

Posted in: netbook, review, reviewed, Today's Chili

Tough luck, Fujitsu — seems your entry into the entirely oversaturated netbook market is just “too little, too late.” That’s the conclusion drawn by critics over at Laptop, who found the M2010 to be a solid performer, but one with a cramped keyboard and a battery life of under two hours. No doubt, a longevity mark such as that has no place in a netbook, and the surprisingly high $449 price tag certainly didn’t do it any favors. Reviewers pointed out that for $10 less, you could snap up the Samsung N110, which offers up four times the battery life and a more comfortable keyboard. Heck, the $379 Eee PC 1000HE goes for six hours strong and seems to be just as potent. Of course, this one’s definitely doused in red, so if that’s your shade, good luck thinking logically about this.

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Fujitsu’s vibrant M2010 netbook gets reviewed: “too little, too late” originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Fujitsu brings M2010 netbook to North America, packs in few surprises

Posted in: netbook, Today's Chili

You know the basic rundown by heart by now, and Fujitsu doesn’t stray far from the 10-inch netbook script with its newish M2010 “mini-notebook.” The big “killer” features on display here include standard Bluetooth, three USB ports, a 50 second Windows XP start up time and a digital microphone. The $450 pricetag includes a 3 cell battery rated at 2.5 hours of computing, and you can nab a 6 cell to double your pleasure for $129. Fujitsu is aiming this one at educational markets, and is touting some beefed up build quality for handling the wear and tear, but we’re not sure there’s anything here that justifies the pricetag or the totally average weight and thickness. The single configuration should be available now online and at select retailers.

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Fujitsu brings M2010 netbook to North America, packs in few surprises originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 19

NTT DoCoMo counters SoftBank with 18 new handsets of its own

Posted in: Android, HTC, Japan, LG, Panasonic, Sharp, Today's Chili, Toshiba, Windows Mobile, WindowsMobile

8 megapixel cameras and 3-plus-inch wide VGA displays are the order of the day in NTT DoCoMo’s 18-strong summer 2009 range of phones from Panasonic, LG, Fujitsu, NEC, Sharp, HTC, and Toshiba, but a few are definitely standing out for us. First would be the unforgettable N-09A from NEC, integrating patent leather right into the phone’s case; it’s not often that you need to condition your handset with saddle soap, so that one definitely caught our eye. Next up, we have a couple smartphones (not to say that anything in this lineup can be labeled “dumb” by any stretch) from HTC and Toshiba — the expected HT-03A and T-01A, respectively, which are localized rebrands of the Magic and TG01. Only a Japanese carrier lineup oozes enough machismo to make a TG01 look like a 16-ounce can of weak juice, so our hats go off to you, NTT DoCoMo — thanks for ruining one of 2009’s most promising devices for us. Hey, at least they’re offering the Magic in both white and black.

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May 15

Fujitsu’s supercomputer-ready Venus CPU said to be “world’s fastest”

Posted in: Japan, processor, prototype, Today's Chili

Due to the intrinsic limitations of machine translation, it’s hard to say exactly what makes Fujitsu‘s latest supercomputer the “world’s fastest,” but we’ll hesitantly believe for the time being. We’re told that the SPARC64 VIIIfx (codename Venus) can churn through 128 billion calculations per second, which supposedly bests the current champ — a chip from Intel — by 2.5 times. An AP report on the matter states that Fujitsu shrunk the size of each central circuit, which in turn doubled the number of circuits per chip. ‘Course, this beast won’t be ready for supercomputer work for several years yet, giving the chip maker’s biggest rivals plenty of time to sabotage its moment in the limelight.

[Via Physorg]

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May 15

Fujitsu CPU is Worlds Fastest

Posted in: Today's Chili

At the Fujitsu Forum 2009 this week, the eponymous company unveiled a new chip that can perform 128 billion computations per second. That number’s roughly 2.5 times faster than Intel’s fastest. It makes the Venus (also more technically known as SPARC64 VIIIfx) a contender for the title of world’s fastest CPU.

Still in the prototype stages, the Venus measures 2 square centimeters. Fujitsu says the chip has potential applications in such fields as weather prediction and astronomy, but the company hasn’t ruled out more mainstream deployment, either.

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May 14

Fujitsu and Macnica embed Android into digital photo frames — WalMart, you listening?

Posted in: Android, Today's Chili

Hey, if you can take Google’s open source OS for mobile telephones and chunk it into a netbook, then why not digital photo frames? Fujitsu and Japan’s Macnica have teamed up on what they’re calling a “Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frames” based on Google’s Android. In other words, it’s a software platform for home network digital photo frames based on Google’s Android. Uh, riiight. The prototype frame above was on display in Japan yesterday running slideshows off a standard DLNA network. Honestly, we don’t care what OS is running at the core of those cheap, off-brand digital photo frames cluttering big box shelves every holiday — just make the navigation intuitive and we’re happy. Android seems like a good (and free!) start along the road to standardization.

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Fujitsu and Macnica embed Android into digital photo frames — WalMart, you listening? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 05:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 30

Fujitsu gets official with M2010 netbook, Engadget Chinese goes hands-on

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We already caught sight of Fujitsu’s new 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook in Japan earlier this month, and it looks like the company has now gotten official with the seemingly identical M2010 model for some other markets, although it still hasn’t made it all the way over here. The netbook itself is about as standard as can be, and includes a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and built-in Bluetooth, among other not at all surprising specs — although you will apparently get a bundled DVD burner and wireless mouse with it, which makes the nearly $650 price tag at least a tad more reasonable. What’s more, while they didn’t get ton of time to spend with it, our pals at Engadget Chinese did manage to snap a few hands-on pics at the launch event, which you can check out by hitting up the link below.

[Via Engadget Chinese]

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Apr 27

Fujitsu’s FMV LOOX U C50N bumped up to 2GHz Atom Z550 proc, won’t look back

Posted in: Today's Chili, UMPC

Fujitsu just stuffed Intel’s latest Atom chip, the 2GHz Atom Z550, into the FMV LU C50N UMPC, the Japanese LOOX U version of its U2010 / U820 UMPC. Of course, the processor breaks through Microsoft’s restrictions on XP for netbooks, so out of the box you’ll have to take the performance hit of Vista, and then perhaps get in on some Windows 7 RC action to really feel the speed boost. Other specs include just about anything else you might imagine could or couldn’t fit into this form factor — including a 5.6-inch 1280 x 800 touchscreen.

[Via jkkmobile]

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Apr 21

CSIRO’s patent lawsuits conclude with the final 13 companies settling

Posted in: HP, intel, lawsuit, Microsoft, nintendo, patent, Today's Chili, Toshiba, wi-fi, wifi

Looks like CSIRO‘s legal days are over — for the moment, at least. Having already reached an agreement with HP, the Australian government-funded research firm announced this week that it’s settled with the remaining 13 companies it sued for patent infringement, claiming it owned the rights to 802.11a/g. For those who haven’t been keeping track at home, that includes Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Nintendo, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, and 3Com. The details of any of the settlements are undisclosed, but as iTnews reports, it’s expected CSIRO ended up with some substantial monies now that the dust has settled. Chief Executive Dr. Megan Clark noted that it’ll continue to “defend its intellectual property,” so if you’re a high profile tech company who creates WiFi-equipped gadgets and hasn’t been served a lawsuit yet, we don’t blame you for being a little nervous right now.

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