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• Australian financial services sector lags UK, US for Green IT

  Research compares the Green IT maturity of financial services institutions in four countries: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and India.

• Fujitsu taps into mobile 3D Trend, ships lifebook AH572

  While Nintendo's 3DS gaming device has hogged the 3D limelight of late, Fujitsu quietly began shipping its 3D-capable Lifebook AH572. This laptop's claim to fame is the dual function 15.6-inch widescreen display for both 2D and 3D (with 3D glasses) viewing. The Lifebook AH572 is now shipping for $999.

• Two weeks after Japan earthquake, IT industry faces hurdles

  Two weeks have passed since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami rocked eastern Japan, and while a recovery among the country's technology manufacturers has begun, it could be several months before things start to normalize.

• Java EE 7 specification gets unanimous approval

  The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5162">according to a posting</a> on the Java Community Process website.

• Asian tech companies chip in relief to Japan quake victims

  Technology companies across Asia have found ways to help people in Japan left devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake last Friday, the 7-meter tsunami it spawned, and displacement caused by troubles at a nuclear power plant there.

• With Hitachi buy, Western Digital moves further ahead of rivals

  If its proposed acquisition of Hitachi GST is successful, Western Digital will immediately gain status in the hard disk drive (HDD) enterprise market, where it has been striving to grow for the past couple of years.

• Consumerisation, virtualisation to force business plan rewrite

  CIOs have a tough year ahead with the consumerisation of IT and virtualisation set to force IT leaders to rewrite their business plans, four vendors have claimed.

• Arm agrees to let Fujitsu use more of its technology

  Arm Holdings and Fujitsu Semiconductor have signed a broad agreement that will enable the Japanese firm develop its processors faster with some of Arm's most advanced technology.

• Fujitsu Germany head jumps to Software AG as chairman

  Bernd Wagner, the managing director of Fujitsu's German subsidiary, has jumped to Software AG to become its chairman.

• Fujitsu ANZ gets second dibs on Cloud services

  ICT services provider, Fujitsu, is the latest vendor to jump on the Cloud bandwagon with a portfolio unveiled on the Gold Coast this week.

• Enterprise trade show welcomes back consumer tech

  Not only are consumer IT products finding their way into the enterprise, they're also finding their way back into Cebit, one of the world's biggest professional IT shows, which opens in Hanover, Germany, next week.

• Fujitsu to launch Windows 7 business tablet

  Japan's Fujitsu will soon launch a tablet PC for enterprise users that packs security features not available in most consumer machines.

• Toyota Australia signs up Fujitsu in Cloud migration

  Toyota Australia plans to offer a Cloud-based management system for 200 of its car dealerships nationally as part of an ambitious four-month migration of existing dealers to Fujitsu’s data centres.

• Oracle users says 'yes' to cloud

  With many companies expressing concerns about committing to cloud computing one group of users appears to have no such worries.

• CA Technologies localises on-demand project management

  In the latest of a spate of local Cloud moves, CA Technologies will deploy its project management service in Australia and New Zealand, storing data locally through Fujitsu.