Fujitsu's ultraportable shows up outside of Japan

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News: Fujitsu's ultraportable shows up outside of Japan
News: Battle of the overclockers
News: Tech CEOs push priorities with politicians
News: Samsung opens biggest chip plant in Texas
News: Symantec 'Project Nextgen' to merge compliance tools
News: Wall Street Beat: IPOs stress IT health, not bubble
News: IT consultants jump on green bandwagon
News: After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched
News: Novell to release SMB workgroup suite by September
News: Flat-rate mobile phone music service to compete with iPhone
News: Microsoft claims mystery trio thwarts disk pirates
Feature: EBay store owners voice concerns
ITWhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: xkcd's electromagnetic spectrum


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Fujitsu's ultraportable shows up outside of Japan
Fujitsu Ltd.'s recently launched convertible ultra portable PC is starting to appear outside of Japan as the company widens sales of the pocket-size device.


Battle of the overclockers
Overclockers waged a battle of ice against fire last week in Taipei, pushing the performance limits of Intel's CPUs to 5GHz. The hobbyists, who are becoming an increasingly common sight at IT trade shows, are perfecting the art of pushing processors to their limits.


Tech CEOs push priorities with politicians
An advocacy group representing several tech vendor CEOs has been meeting with U.S. presidential candidates and getting a positive reception to the policies it's pushing, the group's executive director said.


Samsung opens biggest chip plant in Texas
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. opened a US$3.5 billion memory chip factory in Austin Thursday, the biggest such plant in Texas.


Symantec 'Project Nextgen' to merge compliance tools
Symantec Corp. plans to integrate two of its compliance assessment products to make it easier for IT administrators to manage the software, a company executive said Thursday.


Wall Street Beat: IPOs stress IT health, not bubble
Though business demand for IT products remains moderate, initial public offerings (IPOs) point to a healthy sector that is instilling confidence among investors.


IT consultants jump on green bandwagon
IT research organizations have started weighing in with advice for CIOs, including brief podcasts, market research, and weighty practical guides to cutting data center power costs and emissions.


After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched
Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple Inc. has issued its first patch of the beta software.


Novell to release SMB workgroup suite by September
Novell Inc. will release its first desktop-and-server suite for small businesses in September, an offering clearly aimed at taking market share from rival and sometime partner Microsoft Corp.


Flat-rate mobile phone music service to compete with iPhone
A U.K. startup hopes to compete with Apple Inc.'s new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today's mobile phones.


Microsoft claims mystery trio thwarts disk pirates
Microsoft Corp. has clarified the identity of the mysterious trio on the installation disks for the business version of Windows Vista.


FEATURE

EBay store owners voice concerns
When Sandy Scarce began selling apparel on eBay Inc. three years ago, she planned to use the company's marketplace as her only sales channel, but today, deeply discouraged, she is moving away from it.


ITWHIRLED

Geek Comic of the Week: xkcd's electromagnetic spectrum
Sure, you learned about the electromagnetic spectrum in high school, but there were a few details that they probably left out. Where does Superman's heat vision fit in? The Death Star's main laser? The Wave that drunken sports fan enjoy doing at stadium? This comic has the answers.