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...years IBM's competitors have been doggedly pushing to break the lock the American giant holds on the global market for computers. Still, Big Blue controls more than 35% of the worldwide business, far more than any of its rivals. But last week Japan's leading computer firm, Fujitsu, moved somewhat closer to realizing the goal when it agreed to pay $1.3 billion for an 80% stake in International Computers Limited, Britain's leading computer manufacturer. The deal, which must still be approved by the British government, is Japan's largest acquisition in the computer industry, and will give...
...technology, called Imax Solido, was created by Imax Systems, the Toronto-based company that makes movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...
...Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer firm, has often come under attack in the West for its trade practices. U.S. rivals have accused Fujitsu of a lowball pricing policy that keeps foreign firms out of the Japanese market. But last week a howl of protest went up in Japan when Fujitsu tried to carry out such pricing at home. The uproar occurred after Hiroshima's city government sought bids to design a new computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted...
...strategically vital field of computers, no European firm is capable of competing with America's IBM or Japan's Fujitsu. "We know very well that European companies still are a long way away from having the critical mass necessary to stand up to the competition," concedes Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's Fiat. Still, some success stories show that Western Europe has not been entirely eclipsed at the high-tech end of the market, where the battle for survival will be keenest. Airbus Industrie has emerged as Boeing's main competitor in the lucrative commercial aviation sector. While...
...than half a dozen machine-translation systems being energetically developed in Japan. With their strong thirst for information from other nations and a growing need to disseminate their documents around the world, the Japanese urgently require computers that can translate. A few machines, such as the Toshiba model and Fujitsu's Atlas system, are already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target...