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1. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 04 September 2008

   ... and affected every major notebook manufacturer worldwide – including Dell, which recalled 4.2 million computers, 526,000 Lenovo systems 340,000 Toshiba laptops, 287,000 Fujitsu notebooks, 90,000 Sony Vaio ...

2. Fujitsu launches Mobile WiMax chipsets

   (Networking/Networking Brief)

   Friday, 27 June 2008

   Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited (FML) recently announced its new mobile WiMAX chipset optimized devices such as smart phones and PDAs. Sample shipment will start in August 2008. The chipset includes ...

3. Fujitsu spurns small hard drives, goes solid state

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 April 2007

   Fujitsu is betting everything on solid-state drives and is stopping development of small 1.8-inch magnetic drives. Culver City (CA) - Fujitsu is betting everything on solid-state drives and is stopping ...

4. Fujitsu updates notice, reports Sony battery incident

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Monday, 30 October 2006

     On October 24, 2006, Fujitsu received a report from a customer in Japan that a Fujitsu notebook with a battery pack subject to a recent replacement program by Sony had an incident in which the battery ...

5. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 23 October 2006

   ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

6. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 October 2006

   ... months ago, now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sony. Correlatively, Sony today also announced changes to its earnings forecast for the rest of the year. It was obvious ...

7. Sony recalls own laptop batteries

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 October 2006

   ... Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Hitachi have all taken their place in the list of notebook manufacturers that use Sony batteries that have been recalled. Since the battery problems first became known, and ...

8. Hitachi becomes newest victim of Sony recall

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 06 October 2006

   ... will not have an impact on company earnings. Hitachi's announcement makes them the least hit from the recall. The list of impacted companies now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and ...

9. Fujitsu adds to Sony battery recall count

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 04 October 2006

   Fujitsu today announced today that it recalled approximately 287,000 notebook computers equipped with Sony-built batteries. The total number of recalled notebooks with Sony batteries has now topped 7.5 ...

10. Fujitsu announces LifeBook with longer battery life, touchscreen

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 21 June 2006

    Fujitsu has announced the B6210 LifeBook with "extra" long battery life and a touch sensitive screen. Fujitsu has announced the B6210 LifeBook with "extra" long battery life and a touch sensitive screen. ...

11. GDC 2006: Exhibit hall round-up

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 27 March 2006

    ... a thin Fujitsu laptop running a mobile version of the S25 graphics chip. Weighing just over four pounds, S3 officials said the laptop is capable of dealing with most 3D games. The new laptop will be hitting ...

12. Microsoft's Origami UMPC: What were they thinking?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 14 March 2006

    ... designers like OQOo, featuring clamshell keyboards and swivel screens, and also the Fujitsu LifeBook with similar features and a stunning design. Currently, the LifeBook sells for prices starting at least ...

13. Microsoft to release patch for power drain bug

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 February 2006

    ... Needless to say, we were curious whether there were more notebook manufacturers making use of the confidential patch. We asked representatives from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba ...

14. Four ultra-lightweight notebooks compared

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 January 2006

      MobilityGuru posted a comparison sub-3 pound laptops from Dell, Fujitsu, Sony and the ultra-small Toshiba Libretto U100. Westlake Village (CA) - MobilityGuru posted a comparison of sub-3 pound ...

15. Fujitsu develops low-power H.264 compression circuits

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 November 2005

      Fujitsu announced that it has completed development of core circuitry for H.264 video encoding and decoding. Fujitsu announced that it has completed development of core circuitry for H.264 video ...

16. Fujitsu tunes digital terrestrial TV on cellphones

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 February 2005

      Fujitsu demonstrated at the ISSCC 2005 in San Francisco a low-power analog to-digital (AD) converter using a modulator for mobile phones that is capable of receiving digital terrestrial television ...

17. AMD Shows off 12 New Mobile Processors at CeBIT

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2003

    ... today with its release of twelve new mobile processors for light and thin notebooks and for high-powered notebooks. AMD is partnering with notebook manufacturers Fujitsu Siemens Computer Consumer Division, ...

18. You Got the LOOX

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 March 2002

      Fujitsu Siemens makes its big play for the high-end PDA biz next week with the official 'launch' of the Pocket LOOX. Fujitsu Siemens makes its big play for the high-end PDA biz next week with ...

19. Intel Moves Mobile Chips to 0.13-Micron

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 January 2002

    ... are brand names). Intel also launched three mobile Celeron processors at speeds up to 1.20 GHz. Systems based on the new mobile processors will be available from Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, ...

20. Pen-based LifeBook B Series From Fujitsu

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 09 November 2001

      I don't usually cover laptops, but Fujitsu's LifeBook B Series has a pen-enabled touch screen, which makes it a little different from many mini PC devices. I don't usually cover laptops, but ...

21. Wireless Advertising Association Poised to Put Ads on Your Cell and PDA

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2001

    ... makers are now pushing mobile computers that use the new chips, including Acer, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba. Intel also talked about the Intel 830 chipset ...

22. IBM Quadruples Disk Drive Density

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 21 May 2001

    ... System Buffering, and Streaming SIMD extensions. Systems using the low voltage processors will be available from: Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, IBM, NEC, Matsushita-Panasonic, Sharp, Sony, Sotec, ...

23. Fujitsu announces Transmeta notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 25 September 2000

      Fujitsu Ltd. Fujitsu Ltd. will begin selling its first two notebooks next month based on Transmeta's Crusoe low-power chip. Both machines will be aimed at the Japanese market and will feature ...