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

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

• In pictures: Fujitsu celebrates data centre re-opening with sake

  The Victorian Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, and Fujitsu executives took the Japanese approach and broke open a barrel of sake to toast the $60 million upgrade of Fujitsu’s Tier III data centre in Noble Park, Melbourne.

• Fujitsu invests $60m in Melbourne data centre upgrade

  Data centre provider, Fujitsu, has spent $60 million adding a fourth data hall to its 6,700 metre Tier III facility in Noble Park, Melbourne, with the option of adding a further two data halls in the future if customer demand warrants it.

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

  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

  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

  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

  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.

• Symantec signs deal with Fujitsu to double Cloud service capacity in Australia

  Symantec has signed a three-year deal with Fujitsu to co-locate its servers in the vendor’s Sydney data centre, thereby doubling capacity of its Cloud services and setting the company up to sign more email archiving customers in Australia.

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

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

• Fujitsu opens Saasification Factory to fill cloud app store

  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

  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

  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.

• Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture

  NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard.

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  Primus joins Federal Govt data centre panel

  Primus Australia has jumped on board the Australian Government Information Management Office’s (AGIMO) Data Centre Facilities Panel as the agency makes its final additions to the panel.

• Fujitsu to team with Whamcloud in Lustre development

  Fujitsu said Tuesday it will work with Whamcloud to develop new features for the open-source Lustre file system aimed at high-performance computing.