Fujitsu has unleashed a new phone called the PRIME Series F-09A on the NTT DOCOMO. The F-09A will be available on June 10 in Japan. The F-09A has a 3.4″ touchscreen with a VGA LCD. The F-09A screen can slide and rotate into a horizontal position. The F-09A is the only phone with the world’s first Exercise Monitor. The phone has an 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus. The phone also has a geomagnetic sensor and GPS. Other features include 3G connection, GSM, Bluetooth, and TV tuner.
Now here’s an interesting way to use the Google Android open source operating system. Android is already used on mobile phones and it is rumored that several companies are installing them in netbooks. But now Fujitsu and Macnica are teaming up to install Android into digital photo frames. The project is called “Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frames.” The above frame was shown on display in Japan several days ago.
Fujitsu has been out of the server game for a while, but now they are back with a bang. Fujitsu will be getting a new CEO next month and will see their hard drive business get taken over by Toshiba. Fujitsu has also recently bought out the share of a partnership that they had with Siemens AG called Fujitsu Siemens Computers which will now be called Fujitsu Technology Solutions. Now Fujitsu is introducing a new product called the “Dynamic Cube.”
The Dynamic Cube is a nickname for the BX900 blade server system. The Dynamic Cube also refers to the collection of hardware and software needed for virtual servers. Below are the components needed for the Dynamic Cube:
1. PRIMERGY BX900: The third generation of blade servers with 10U-high enclosure. The enclosure holds 18 Intel Xeon 5500 (”Nehalem”) processor-based blades. 2. VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Xen: Abstraction layer between the network, servers, and the storage. 3. ServerView Resource Coordinator (SVRC) Virtual Edition: A feature that unifies virtual and physical management.
Amit Chowdhry | April 30, 2009 | 427 views | Comments Categorized under Fujitsu, Toshiba
As many of you all are aware, Fujitsu will be transferring their hard drive business to Toshiba. A new division of Toshiba will be created to take over Fujitsu’s business called the Toshiba Storage Device Corporation. After that, Fujitsu’s manufacturing plants will be called Toshiba Storage Devices Philippines and Toshiba Storage Devices Thailand. Toshiba Storage Device Yamagata Corporation will then take over Yamagata Fujitsu Limited.
Toshiba Storage Device Corporation will handle the R&D of the hard drives and the Toshiba parent company itself will do all the marketing. About 80.1% of Toshiba Storage Device Corporation will be owned by the parent company by July 1. This leaves Fujitsu with 19.9% shre for the time being. But in December 2010, Toshiba will take over the whole storage device division.
Even though it is rumored that Toshiba was considering taking over SanDisk, the Japanese electronics company will be seeing their CEO step down in June. Toshiba is currently facing record losses and may need additional capital to keep running.
Toshiba’s current CEO Atsutoshi Nishida, 65, will become chairman. The head of the infrastructure systems group at Toshiba Norio Sasaki, 59, will become the CEO as long as shareholders approve. Tadashi Okamura, the current Chairman of the company will become a board adviser.
When Nishida became President in 2005, he had really opened up the company’s wallet. For example, Toshiba bought a majority ownership in Westinghouse in 2006 for $3.7 billion. Last month the company agreed to buy out Fujitsu’s hard drive business. The company also invested billions in flash memory chip production under Nishida’s watch.
These financial transactions caused the company to become overstretched. But investors expect Toshiba to raise additional funds by issuing new shares in the near future.
Spansion Inc. (NASDAQ:SPSN) laid off about 35% of their workforce last week and filed for Chapter 11 this week. The company has about $3.8 billion in assets and $2.4 billion in debt. The market valuation of the company right now is about $3.24 million with a current stock price of $0.02 per share. Spansion plans to restructure debt and focus on other profitable markets such as Internet protocol solutions and wireless products.
About 3,000 employees were laid off as part of the 35%. The job cuts would result in savings of about $225 million per year. Former CEO Bertrand Cambou stated on Friday that he is returning the $403,000 in severance he received because he was heartbroken about others bring laid off without severance. In 2007, Spansion had a $263.5 million net loss on $2.5 billion in revenue.
Spansion was formerly owned by AMD and Fujitsu. It was spun off in December 2005 and both of those companies remained as major stockholders in Spansion.
