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Fujitsu to Consolidate Global IT Solutions Brand
- Flagship Services Subsidiaries ICL and DMR Consulting to Adopt
Fujitsu Corporate Name (Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, Japan) |
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Fujitsu Limited announced that it will fully transition its
flagship overseas IT services and consulting subsidiaries, ICL and
DMR Consulting, to the Fujitsu corporate name as part of an effort
to strengthen its global IT solutions brand. Already among the
world's top three services groups, with more than 2 trillion yen
in consolidated services and software revenue and active in over
50 countries, Fujitsu intends to further build on its leadership
position by leveraging and enhancing the individual and collective
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Fujitsu Merges Three Subsidiaries in Singapore to Further
Strengthen Customer Focus in Asian Region (Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, Japan) |
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Fujitsu Limited announced that it will combine the information
processing and telecommunications operations of its three Singapore
subsidiaries into a single consolidated company, effective July 1.
This consolidation will allow the new company to better serve its
customers in the region, by pooling resources and combining the
sales, marketing, R&D, and support capabilities of each subsidiary
into a one-stop solutions source. The merged company is expected
to serve as a pillar in the Fujitsu group's ASEAN operations.
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Fujitsu-ICL Systems renamed Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. (Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. - Dallas, US) |
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Company underscores its focus on systems and services for retail,
financial systems, mobile solutions and more. >
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DMR Consulting opens Asia Pacific' s first eBusiness Solution
Centre in response to mounting demands for e-expertise (DMR - Edison, US) |
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DMR Consulting, a leading global provider of consulting services
and a strategic member of the Fujitsu family of companies, is
pleased to announce it has opened Asia Pacific's first eBusiness
Solution Centre, which will be based in Brisbane. The centre's
experienced specialists will design and develop solutions that
leverage emerging technologies for business efficiency.
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ICL chairman awarded CBE in Queen's birthday honours list (ICL - London, UK) |
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Michio Naruto, chairman of the Board of ICL and special
representative, Fujitsu, has been awarded the Commander of the
British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list.
Mr Naruto has been given the honourary CBE for his services to the
Anglo/Japanese trade. He has been heavily involved with the UK IT
industry since 1968. He was a key member of the Fujitsu team that
negotiated the technology licensing agreement between Fujitsu and
ICL in 1981.
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INTERNET, SERVICES & SOFTWARE
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Fujitsu Software Corporation Announces Fortran Support for the
Microsoft .NET Platform (Fujitsu Software Corp. - San Jose, US) |
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Fujitsu Software Corporation announced that Fortran has been added
to the languages it will support for the Microsoft .NET Framework.
The announcement means that organizations with an investment in
Fortran, a programming language developed in 1954 to express
mathematical calculations, will now have access to the latest in
XML Web Services technology and application development frameworks,
such as ASP.NET, Microsoft's successor to Active Server Pages.
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Fujitsu COBOL continues to lead the way in Microsoft integration
for COBOL applications. (Fujitsu Software Corp. - San Jose, US) |
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Fujitsu Software Corporation announced at Microsoft TechEd 2001,
that, as a Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Partner, it is
integrating its COBOL for Microsoft .NET product into the Visual
Studio .NET environment. For COBOL programmers this represents
an explosion in development environment functionality and provides
the best user experience for targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework.
For developers majoring in other languages, integrating legacy
COBOL code is no longer a multiple-development-environment challenge.
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| COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers to provide Audi with crash simulation
capability: Supercomputer hpcLine with 128 processors (Fujitsu Siemens Computers - Munich, Germany) |
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The car manufacturer Audi, Ingolstadt, has just chosen Fujitsu
Siemens Computers to provide the computing platform for its new
strategic competence center for stochastic crash simulations.
After evaluating several RISC based and Intel based solutions, Audi
decided on Fujitsu Siemens Computers' hpcLine system - also Intel
based - for simulating random crash situations. The system will
be customized to meet Audi's needs for scientific and technical
applications, and will be an integrated Linux cluster system based
on 52 Pentium III dual processor nodes and 24 Pentium 4 nodes.
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Fujitsu PC Corporation Offers One of the First Pen Tablets
with Windows CE H/PC 2000 (Fujitsu PC Corp. - Santa Clara, US) |
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Fujitsu PC Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu
Limited, announced it is now shipping the PenCentra 200, one of
the first pen tablets PC to feature compatibility with the
Microsoft Windows CE Handheld PC 2000 (H/PC 2000) operating system.
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Fujitsu PC Corporation Announces Availability of Wireless WAN
Connectivity (Fujitsu PC Corp. - Santa Clara, US) |
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Fujitsu PC Corporation (FPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu
Limited, announced GoAmerica's Go.Web wireless wide-area network
service is now available as part of FPC's value-added service
options for its award-winning line of LifeBook notebook and
Stylistic pen tablet PCs.
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| ELECTRONIC DEVICES
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Fujitsu Introduces First Triple-Stacked MCP for Cellular
Telephones Integrates Flash Memory, Mobile FCRAM, and SRAM (Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, Japan) |
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Fujitsu announced that it has developed the industry's first
triple-stacked multi-chip package, combining 64Mb NOR-type flash
memory, 16Mb mobile FCRAM1 with an asynchronous SRAM-type
interface, and 4Mb SRAM.
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Fujitsu Weekly Update is produced by the Global PR Team at Fujitsu
Limited in Tokyo, Japan as an informational service for media,
analysts and investors who follow the Fujitsu Group.
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology
solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies,
best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide
corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to
unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers
succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported
consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2001.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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