160 Fujitsuers plan 3 days employee strike for losing job

When you lost your job, what could stop you from getting mad at yourboss and your company?

Fujitsu, Japanese famous laptop maker plans to decrease the number of its 1200 UK employees during this year. The effect, 169 Fujitsuers (Fujitsu workers) plans to execute 3 days national-strike by placing various type of posters, banners and picket outside Fujitsu's London office building starting from November 12 to NOve 14 2009.

Yeah, mad at your boss when he is trying to take away your job (and your life) from you!, especially if you're passionate tech worker in huge Japanese company such as Fujitsu. I will see how far this situation can be. Fujitsu still doesnt give offial reply via media and still doesnt give any reasonable answer to this problem, still remain numb on the matter.

[ Via BBC UK ]

Lenovo IdeaPad U150 sold at $699 with 4 weeks shipment period

Good news for Lenovo laptop lovers accross United States. Lenovo IdeaPad U150, the new laptop series is now ready to receive order from all over America. Lenovo IdeaPad U150 series available in two different series, the IdeaPad U150 690968U (red, priced at $699) and IdeaPad U150 690969U (black, $849). If you order the first model in red, you will have to wait for a month (4 weeks) or even more according to your location.

But, if you purchased the black model, you will only wait for 16 days for the laptop to arrive. Small difference in laptop price really make huge impact especially in waiting time. I think this "price" strategy gives bad business image to laptop buyers, especially potential laptop buyers who cant afford to pay $849. Doesnt mean if somone buy cheap laptop the he/she deserve the long time period of shipment. What is the meaning of this? Lenovo kinda doing bad business.

[ Via TechSpot ]

Web companies give free WiFi in 47 airports for travelling laptop user

During this upcoming holiday season big web companies promote themselves "offline" to travellers, especially laptop users. Google is working hard in seducing thousands internet user and to make them fall in love with Google's web apps, Google's free products and free services (like me with this blog!) by providing free Wifi "hot-spot" access in 47 airports accross America until 15 January 2009.

Microsoft gives free Wifi access to several hotels and airports as a strategy to promote their new "bling-bling" search engine called Bing (rebranded from LiveSearch). More US residents travel frequently on November and December 2009 to celebrate Thanksgiving and and Christmas season with their family. Waiting time in the airport is the perfect spot to advertise business "offline" aggressively for Google and Microsoft.

[ Via AssociatedPress ]

Nokia Booklet 3G review-the most luxurious netbook

Would you work hard to get your hands on owning the most luxurious netbook available today? What if the brand is Nokia? Most of people I talk to in the real world couldnt believe Nokia has produced their own netbook. Nokia Booklet 3G is the most luxurious netbook worth like owning brand new Rolex wrist watch, according to PCMag.

Nokia Booklet 3G is on top list of high prices and luxury designs - especially when Nokia designed this netbook in alluminium metal body (at least its not all white plastic body!) without catchy colors (sold only in Blue, Black, White) like its rival the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v or Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2. If you're looking for Nokia Booklet 3G review, PcMag wrote their own long review on this netbook commenting each inch of it from top to bottom with some lovely close-up images of Nokia Booklet 3G. Worth a read!.

READ - Nokia Booklet 3G review from PC Magazine

Acer Aspire Timeline in Sri Lanka for the first time

Acer Aspire Timeline, the new laptop series from Acer was launched officially in Sri Lanka during an official ceremony in Cinnamon Grand, sponsored by Metropolitan Computers and in cooperation of Acer Singapore. Acer Aspire Timeline known as thick laptops with 8 hours long lasting battery life.

Since Dell Adamo XPS, Apple MacBook Air and Sony Vaio X is not affordable by Sri Lankan laptops buyers, Acer Timeline seems to fit into their needs. Sri Lance has untouched laptop market that big companies not eyeing on, especially for selling cheap-and-affordable netbooks. The country has 20,238,000 resident population and has a reputation as famous vacation spot for western people, according to Wikipedia.

[ Via Daily News Sri Lanka ]

Intel PineView new processor replacing Atom processor

Intel, the famous processor chip maker is currently working on secret project to produce latest version of its Atom chips used widely in netbooks nowadays. Intel said that new processor was code named as "Pineview". It works by combining performance power with graphic power, mixing it and keeping them alive and available just on one single chip.

The effect? Adds more big multitasking power on small netbooks, using lower electric consumption than its level now. Most netbooks use a single chip for performance and the another one used to handle graphic.

I guess the name does it all. A pine tree is tall (mimicks high performance) and View (means we can get sharp graphic with less battery usage). In year 2010 we will meet with netbook that has 12-15 hours battery life. Eventhough Intel was being sued by New York city, it doesnt stop their creativity in creating faster chip to make our life easier.

[ from RegHardware ]

Apple Unibody MacBook review by DigitalTrends

One thing that I notice in this review was a sentence where DigitalTrends say that this latest MacBook laptop from Apple is boring and the exacet sentence is "boring white plastic" and another one is "s it worth the $200 price drop to go for the plastic?". Come on, that little plastic worths more than just light plastic. For laptop hobbyist like me and MacBook lover who cant afford to buy it now (dying to collect money to just own it) its like a white gold shaped in curvy little laptop. DigitalTrends said the new MacBook loads up in 25 seconds, and it rocks ( i dont really sure if they like it, seems to me they're not). The review they give is long but I have to say, its very detail indeed. Go there and read.

READ - Apple MacBook by Digital Trends