May 2nd, 2009

Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific has launched the second of its Netbook range, the Fujitsu M2010, which indulges users with a bigger screen size with more superior visual extravagance, greater storage power, a fuller suite of business efficiency tools and the latest mobility and connectivity tools.

With measure of 10.1 inch, Fujitsu M2010 is a lightweight darling comes adorned in refreshingly chic colours that exude stylish appeal amid its slim design. Together with the generous storage capacity, suite of high-efficiency office tools, bigger keypads and delightful little touches like webcam and preloaded ArcSoft software, the Fujitsu M2010 is the netbook to have and to hold.

Besides, the new Fujitsu M2010 is designed to give users higher productivity and efficiency at work with greater visual enhancement and connectivity experience at play. In all, the Fujitsu M2010 upholds the true mobility assurance that Fujitsu is so committed to deliver and users so desire to have.

Fujitsu remains firmly committed to the promotion of a cleaner environment and complies with the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS) across its entire range of products.

In addition, Fujitsu has established a set of commitments that goes beyond RoHS requirements, thus allowing it to stay keenly focused on its customers’ health and well-being as well as to embrace a healthier environment for all.

By adopting a green factory concept and being committed to the cause of energy-efficient computing, Fujitsu also fights to sustain the Earth as a sponsor and a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.

UP President Barack Obama has received  mixed opinions concerning his transperancey vow following accomplishments at the end of his first 100 days in office.

At 100 days into the Obama administration, Washington observers said that the president has made some significant steps toward using technology and the Internet to honor that campaign promise. In other ways, they said, Obama has not yet lived up to it.

Compared to his predecessors, Obama is an unusually wired chief executive. Bill Clinton sent only two e-mail messages as president and has yet to pick up the habit. George W. Bush ceased using e-mail in January 2001 and said toward the end of his presidency that he’s looking forward to e-mailing “my buddies” after leaving the nation’s capital.

But Obama, whose campaign made aggressive use of the Internet, is an inveterate e-mailer, saying “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry” before taking office. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters after the inauguration that, thanks to a “compromise,” his boss could keep a security-enhanced BlackBerry for e-mail.

Schwartz and others suggested that it’s unfair to judge Obama’s record on technology and openness after 100 days, especially when the president himself set a 120-day deadline for an internal review.

One of Obama’s first acts as president was to sign a directive ordering his chief information officer to devise ways to make the administration more Internet-friendly within that time period. The memorandum says agencies must “harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.”

In early March, Obama named Vivek Kundra, Washington DC’s chief technology officer, to the position of federal CIO. Kundra said that he wants “to ensure the public has access to information, and to rethink the way the public interacts with the government in an information economy.”

One of his office’s projects is the not-launched-yet Data.gov Web site, which is intended to be a warehouse of government data for public consumption. (For the District of Columbia, Kundra’s office created the DC Digital Public Square Web site, which provides data feeds and even ways to follow government activities through Twitter and Facebook.)

The White House also faces the challenge of upgrading a clunky and out-of-date computer system to allow them to do things like send SMS text messages and mass e-mail updates.

The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that advocates for open government, has created a Web site allowing voting on what’s most important to see in the 120-day review.

The winner so far is formal data standards, which would allow programmers to extract government databases to be incorporated in their own applications–in much the same way as Google’s announcement this week does.

Credit: White House photo by Chuck Kennedy.

Another e-mail with new concept, the Peek Pronto, is born today in form of e-mail-only hand-held gadget that keeps us in touch without using a phone.

New features on the Peek Pronto include unlimited text messaging, a search function and the ability to manage up to five e-mail accounts, including support for Microsoft Exchange.

Just as with the original Peek, the device is confounding at times as there is no text in incoming text messages? The new search function is useful but hardly robust. If you search your inbox for “Twitter,” for example, and it found no new messages.

The company sells the device for $80, and sees soccer moms and teenagers as its core audience, while the original Peek sells for $50.