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• Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon

  By Agam Shah | 24 May, 2012 19:23

  Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.

• Fujitsu unveils $60 million upgraded Melbourne datacentre

  By Spandas Lui | 11 May, 2012 14:03

  The facility in Noble park is now one of the most energy efficient facilities of its size in Australia.

• Roundtable: Dealing with big data

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 09 May, 2012 09:18

  Big data has emerged in 2012 as a major pain point for many organisations. Feeding on Cloud, mobility and social networking trends has had everyone scrambling to find ways to manage everything that comes in. ARN sat down with some of the dominant players in the space to talk through some of the issues behind big data.

• Fujitsu launches big data software suite, targets US$1 billion in yearly sales

  By Jay Alabaster | 23 April, 2012 18:27

  Fujitsu said Monday it will release a set of software suite tools aimed at processing and analyzing huge sets of diverse information known as big data.

• Japanese ATMs to use palm readers in place of cash cards

  By Jay Alabaster | 11 April, 2012 20:29

  A Japanese bank will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards, it said Wednesday.

• Fujitsu research lab demos current projects, says economy shouldn't affect funds

  By Jay Alabaster | 09 April, 2012 22:11

  The head of Fujitsu's main research division says it is a mistake to cut back on investing in new technologies during hard economic times.

• Samsung, NTT DoCoMo chip group abandon planned LTE chip joint venture

  By Jay Alabaster | 02 April, 2012 20:52

  NTT DoCoMo said Monday a planned joint venture with Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC and other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard has been abandoned.

• Fujitsu tech can tell when you're stressed on the phone, vulnerable to scams

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 March, 2012 00:48

  Japanese technology giant Fujitsu said it has developed a system that can determine when someone is being targeted by a phone scam.

• Symantec co-locates servers in Sydney with Fujitsu

  By Patrick Budmar | 20 March, 2012 01:01

  Vendor boots capacity of its Australian Symantec.cloud service to meet forecasted future demand

• Fujitsu opens Saasification Factory to fill cloud app store

  By Peter Sayer | 06 March, 2012 03:56

  Fujitsu Technology Solutions has already convinced 50 independent software vendors (ISVs) to sell their business software through its online Business Solutions Store, and aims to add 100 more by the year end, it announced at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Monday.

• School system adopts Windows 7 tablets over iPad

  By Agam Shah | 17 February, 2012 09:04

  A U.S. school district on Thursday said it was handing students 2,000 Fujitsu tablets with the Windows 7 OS, and selected it over the iPad because of durability and security concerns.

• Toshiba, Fujitsu join Japanese tech peers in booking massive 3Q losses

  By Jay Alabaster | 31 January, 2012 23:05

  Toshiba and Fujitsu, two of Japan's largest tech companies, both said Tuesday they booked deep losses during the October-December quarter, blaming a spike in component costs caused by Thai flooding and a tough market for consumer electronics.

• Fujitsu renews A4 image scanners

  By Nermin Bajric | 17 January, 2012 10:16

  Fujitsu renews A4 image scanners with software enhancements and additions

• Forget quad-core tablets; here's a quad-core smartphone

  By Matt Hamblen | 13 January, 2012 09:50

  While some tablet makers are talking about the benefits of quad-core processors in their devices, Fujitsu has put a quad-core chip in a smartphone -- at least for a prototype version on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

• Hopefully these robotic farmers will harvest more than our organs

  By Joshua Schnell | 09 January, 2012 09:43

  The Japanese government is planning to develop a farm where all labor is carried out by robots, according to AFP. The initiative, dubbed the Dream Project, will use robotic tractors to plant and harvest the crops, and other robots for tasks such as packaging the produce for shipping.