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Toshiba Computer Systems, a division of Toshiba Europe GmbH, announces the Qosmio F60 – Toshiba’s slimmest multimedia laptop, designed for those who want a high performing yet portable laptop with advanced features. Truly an entertainment powerhouse, it offers individuals the chance to really stand out from the crowd with its eye-catching design. The Qosmio F60 will be available during the first quarter of 2010 throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The “Slim look” enters the multimedia class
“The slim design used to be a distinct attribute reserved for ultraportable laptops, however, Toshiba now brings this feature into the multimedia class devices,” says Santosh Varghese, Regional General Manager, Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Gulf.

“The Qosmio F60 carries a broad range of premium multimedia features into a slim form factor, offering a really sleek design,” adds Gargarella.

The Qosmio F60 measures only 29.1mm in thickness and weighs only 2.7 kg . For individuals with an eye for something a little different, the Qosmio F60 comes with a striking high-gloss red cover with the silver coloured Qosmio lettering. This fashionable design is complemented by an elegant black interior featuring a silver line design on the palmrest and a stylish black speaker grill.

Premium multimedia functionality
The Qosmio F60 really stands out from the crowd – not only in its design but also in its performance. It provides all the features which users look for in a multimedia laptop: an impressive 15.6” (39.6 cm) TruBrite HD display with LED backlighting powered by a high performing graphics processing unit; a Blu-ray rewritable drive that also supports DVD media or a DVD-SuperMulti (DL) respectively ; the Toshiba upconversion software Resolution+; an integrated analogue and digital (DVB-T) Hybrid TV Tuner supporting the most popular TV broadcasting formats; an HD web camera, and high end Harman Kardon stereo speakers providing vibrant audio.

Sustainable and eco-friendly
As a responsible global corporate citizen, Toshiba ensures that all laptops are fully compliant with European WEEE and RoHS directives, effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances. Additionally the Toshiba Eco utility helps to reduce power consumption, and makes users aware of the power their laptop is using. The Toshiba Qosmio F60 is ENERGY STAR 5.0 qualified.
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Taiwan based Acer, who are currently the world’s second largest computer maker, have announced plans to introduce some major new products later in the year.

According to Jim Wong, Acer’s global president of IT products and services, we can expect to see an online apps store as well as the company’s first ever e-reader and netbook and maybe even a tablet too.

Acer is hoping the new products will boost the company’s income margin to 3 percent over the next couple of years.

You never know, if they get this right they may even manage steal the top slot from Hewlett Packard.

So what do we know so far? As it turns out, not much, but what we do know is worth knowing.

First the apps store. This is expected to launch towards the end of June and will have hundreds of downloads available initially which will be based on a variety of different operating systems.

The Acer eReader is also expected to launch in the summer but only in five European countries and Asian markets to start with.

We have very few details but apparently it will feature a 6 inch monochrome screen and obviously it will be competing with Amazon, Barnes & Noble as well as Sony.

Acer are currently talking to a number of different publishers, magazines and newspapers with a view to providing content for the eReader device although they didn’t reveal who any of them might be.

“Amazon, Barnes & Noble; they are U.S.-centric. In Western Europe and Asia-Pacific we have publishers to work with, and most of them are content owners,” Wong said.

So what about the Netbook? Well it is expected to launch some time in the 3rd quarter and will run on Google’s Chrome operating system. There is some speculation that it might also have dual boot functionality.

However, Wong said in an interview with Bloomberg that he expects that 12 million of the 15 million netbooks Acer is expected to sell in 2010 will feature Chrome.

“For Chrome, we’re aggressively pursuing to become one of the first, so there’s a change to the Microsoft-Intel environment,” Wong said.

As for the possibility of an Acer tablet, looks like they’re waiting to see what happens with the Apple version first so we basically know nothing other than it’s on Acer’s agenda.

This looks like it’s all happening at Acer this year.

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Fujitsu workers in Belfast who are members of the trade union, Unite, are to take further strike action.

The workers at the Japanese electronics giant are involved in a dispute with the firm over job cuts, a pay freeze and pension changes.

Fujitsu employs around 11,500 people in the UK and has about 400 staff in Belfast and 100 in Londonderry.

The union said about 70 people were at risk of compulsory redundancy across the UK.

The company has said it was disappointed that industrial action was being taken.

Earlier this month, shoppers in Belfast city centre were leafleted by striking workers.

They protests outside Marks and Spencer as well as other firms which use Fujitsu as their IT provider.

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A panel of the Court of Appeal of Ontario has dismissed two appeals brought by Dell Inc. seeking to enforce a consumer arbitration clause and prevent a class action lawsuit from proceeding.

Computer maker Dell is being sued by a class of 119,000 Canadians who bought Inspiron laptops between 2003 and 2005. The suit claims the computers were defective.

Dell sought to stop the lawsuit by pointing to an arbitration clause in the buyer’s agreement. In a decision issued Thursday, the court held that it’s unreasonable to expect that individual buyers would pursue the arbitration process in pursuit of small amounts of restitution.

A call to the Round Rock, Texas-based computer manufacturer for comment was not immediately returned Monday afternoon.
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Industrial services company Harsco Corp. said it has selected IBM as its consulting partner for a business transformation initiative designed to create significant operating and cost efficiencies throughout Harsco’s global supply chain.

“The intelligent supply chain of the future aligns perfectly with our One Harsco objectives for creating long-term strategic advantage as a more globally integrated and optimized enterprise,” said Harsco Chairman and CEO Salvatore D. Fazzolari. “Working with IBM gives us access to one of the premier leaders in this field. Moreover, when completed at the end of 2010, we expect this project to improve our Return on Invested Capital and also contribute to Harsco’s Economic Value Added (EVA) growth.”

According to a release, IBM will perform an analysis to determine where improvements in Harsco’s supply chain can be made. IBM will then develop the roadmap for a fully integrated supply chain that encompasses sourcing, procurement, logistics, planning (demand and supply), inventory and order management, and cash management. Work is scheduled to begin this month with IBM teams in place at Harsco’s headquarters, the companies said.

“The supply chain is at the heart of Harsco Corp.’s global, diversified businesses,” said Michael Laroche, global supply chain strategy leader, IBM. “By creating an intelligent business ecosystem that supports the company’s growth objectives while reducing bottlenecks and lead times, Harsco will increase its flexibility and responsiveness in the global marketplace.”
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According to The DigiTimes, an HP Taiwan official announced that HP will focus on tablets and a notebook with a built in projector this year.

The details are thin, though it does come from Monty Wong, vice president and manager of personal computing systems group at HP Taiwan so it is very likely.

The mini projector would be placed in the top of the notebook, where a webcam is normally located which would allow for users to view their presentation while displaying it in a meeting.

It is interesting to see this information come out just after CES. When we were telling a fellow attendee about the cool cell phone and companion projectors shown at the TI DLP booth he asked when we could expect a notebook with a built in projector; a question we passed on to a TI execs, but didn’t receive any real answer on when we might see the idea come to market.

Wong also told the DigiTimes that HP will continue to pursue tablets in 2010, specifically keyboard-less slates like the HP Slate shown on stage by Steve Balmer at CES.

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