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1. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

   (Software/Software Features)

   Sunday, 04 October 2009

   ... aimed at smartphones and smartbooks and Toshiba will be one of the first companies to launch products using the technology. Adobe said that Flash Player 10.1 is aimed to optimize graphic processors for ...

2. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 29 September 2009

   Toshiba has introduced a reasonably priced line of ultra-thin laptops. The Satellite T100 series - which measures less than one inch thick - has a starting weight of 3.49 pounds and delivers up to 9 ...

3. Gateway introduces high-definition netbook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 23 June 2009

   ... Toshiba has announced a newly designed Satellite laptop with a slightly higher MSRP of $550. The Satellite L line consists of four model classes and boasts HD TruBrite widescreen displays, USB sleep-and-charge, ...

4. Apple notebooks lauded

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 04 May 2009

   ... the plastic MacBook in third. The 15-inch MacBook Pro won the 14 to 16-inch category with the Toshiba Satellite in second and Asus X83Vm third. The 17-inch MacBook Pro took the 17 to 18-inch prize, with ...

5. The netbook-killing HP DV2

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Tuesday, 14 April 2009

   ... on spec, it compares favorably to the Toshiba R600, which costs nearly three times more. That is a nice value in a market screaming for high value products.   In use The product feels high quality ...

6. iSuppli: iPod shuffle's bill of material just $22, fat margin

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 13 April 2009

   ...  The iSuppli analyst Andrew Rassweiler warned that Apple may also be using flash memory from Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor, the two companies who, along with Samsung, feed Apple's hunger for flash memory ...

7. Toshiba's Fuel Cell Charger arriving this quarter

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 30 January 2009

     On Thursday, Toshiba confirmed in Tokyo that it would meet an earlier promise and launch a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) battery charger before March's end. The company also has plans to commercialize ...

8. 35,000 Sony notebook batteries recalled

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 31 October 2008

   ... than 10 million notebooks globally. The 35,000 batteries in this latest recall were used in notebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell in systems that were sold between November 2004 and June 2006. ...

9. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 04 September 2008

   ... and affected every major notebook manufacturer worldwide – including Dell, which recalled 4.2 million computers, 526,000 Lenovo systems 340,000 Toshiba laptops, 287,000 Fujitsu notebooks, 90,000 Sony Vaio ...

10. Toshiba unveils SSD notebook (with an acceptable price tag)

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... is that these SSD notebooks are expensive. That does not necessarily change with Toshiba’s Portégé R500-S5007V, but, for the very first time, this device does not come with a price tag that is so outrageous ...

11. Toshiba joins the ‘stunning’ notebook crowd

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... Toshiba now also has ‘stunning’ notebooks that provide a “premium blend of modern style, performance and affordability.” But then, design is really a matter of taste and we may be stretching the meaning ...

12. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ...  AMD Turion 64 X2, 14” $629.99 Best Buy Desktop Bundle HP Core 2 Duo w/ 19” LCD $799.99 Best Buy Notebook Toshiba  ...

13. Toshiba recalls overheating portable DVD player batteries

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 10 October 2007

    Another battery burning hazard has been announced, this time for Toshiba brand portable DVD players. San Jose (CA) - Another battery burning hazard has been announced, this time for Toshiba brand portable ...

14. Intel searching for new ways to use WiMax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... The Toshiba portables from the ‘90s.  He claimed that “real mobility" began with Centrino architecture and the Banias CPU. Centrino was born in 2003.  It made the process shrink ...

15. Toshiba recalls thousands of Sony-made laptop batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 19 July 2007

    Tokyo (Japan) – Here we go again, Toshiba is recalling up to 10,000 laptop batteries made by Sony.  The lithium-ion batteries were manufactured in December 2005 and are currently being used ...

16. Gateway recalls 14,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 19 June 2007

    ... sent out today, Toshiba said that it is “redoubling” its efforts to remove these battery packs from the market: A Toshiba notebook was reported to have caught fire on May 24 of this year, which ...

17. Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 08 June 2007

    ... strength and Intel was on the defensive. This year, while AMD continued to show penetration into protected Intel accounts like Dell and Toshiba, Intel hit back hard with announcements that showcased its ...

18. PC trends 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 13 April 2007

    ... and the hardware that will make it sing.   We had three early products pointing the way to the future - the two Touchsmart machines from HP and the hot Toshiba R400 laptop blazed the way. But they ...

19. Fujitsu spurns small hard drives, goes solid state

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 April 2007

    ...  Fujitsu’s Masao Sakamoto told Reuters, “We want to see if the market tips towards flash.”  The company faces fierce competition from rivals Toshiba and Samsung in the regular hard ...

20. CES 2007: Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 January 2007

    ... The new Hybrid Storage Alliance was founded by Seagate, Hitachi GST, Toshiba and Samsung and only misses Western Digital as the remaining top-2 hard drive vendor, which, however, as the only top-5 company ...

21. CES 2007: Toshiba to show fuel cell-powered MP3 player

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 03 January 2007

    Pre CES 2007 coverage - Following Samsung's recent announcement of a fuel cell-powered notebook that apparently can run one month on one fill-up, Toshiba will be showing an update to its active and passive ...

22. Samsung develops fuel cell for laptop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 28 December 2006

    ... to bring some green into the environmental nightmare of cell phones. In December, Greenpeace ranked Samsung ahead of Apple and Toshiba, and nearly tied with LG, in terms of environmental friendliness. ...

23. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 October 2006

    ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

24. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 October 2006

    ... months ago, now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sony. Correlatively, Sony today also announced changes to its earnings forecast for the rest of the year. It was obvious ...

25. Sony recalls own laptop batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 October 2006

    ... Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Hitachi have all taken their place in the list of notebook manufacturers that use Sony batteries that have been recalled. Since the battery problems first became known, and ...

26. Hitachi becomes newest victim of Sony recall

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 06 October 2006

    ... will not have an impact on company earnings. Hitachi's announcement makes them the least hit from the recall. The list of impacted companies now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and ...

27. Fujitsu adds to Sony battery recall count

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 04 October 2006

    ... laptops. Apple, Lenovo, IBM, and Toshiba have also announced large-scale recalls of their notebook computers. Problems that have occured as a result of the affected computers range from minimal overheating ...

28. Dell recalls another 100,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 29 September 2006

    ... Sony recall. 1.8 million notebook computers from Apple have been recalled, as well as 340,000 from Toshiba, because of the safety hazard of the defective Sony batteries used. The recall stems back to pictures ...

29. Lenovo, IBM recall 526,000 Thinkpad batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    ... to a potential fire hazard in Sony batteries, which prompted Dell to recall a total of 4.1 million notebooks and Apple 1.8 million notebooks. Toshiba also recalled 340,000 batteries dues to a charging ...

30. Notebook makers meet to discuss new battery standards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 September 2006

    ... almost 6 million batteries total and Toshiba recently recalled 340,000 units. Polycom, a maker of conference phones, was also at the meeting. Back in February, it had recalled almost 28,000 wireless conference ...

31. Toshiba recalls 340,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 19 September 2006

    Toshiba is the third company to announce major recall of Sony-built notebook batteries within the past five weeks. Chicago (IL) - Toshiba is the third company to announce major recall of Sony-built ...

32. Opinion: Zune in, Zune out

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Monday, 18 September 2006

    ... of the device and have to make my initial judgements by looking at the first renderings and the specs that have been released by Microsoft and Toshiba in the Zunbe submission to the FCC. The first images ...

33. Archos PMP will get a Wi-Fi add-on

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 01 September 2006

    ... of the 604 Wi-Fi have not been announced. Related article: Toshiba will manufacture wireless Zune for Microsoft (Extra: slide show)  ...

34. Dell, others roll out Core 2 Duo notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 August 2006

    ... part of Intel's tier 1 partner group are also announcing Core 2 Duo notebooks, including Toshiba, which said that it will be shipping a Core 2 Duo version of its G35 HD-DVD multimedia notebook. All new ...

35. Toshiba will manufacture wireless Zune for Microsoft, photos reveal

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 25 August 2006

    A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Reuters this afternoon that an MP3 player, for which Toshiba has filed for a license with the FCC, is actually the Zune player that Toshiba will apparently be manufacturing ...

36. Freescale first to put MRAM into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 July 2006

    ... to offer a (256 kb) NOR Flash module back in 1988; Toshiba is credited with inventing NAND Flash. MRAM is promised to combine the non-volatile storage characteristics with the speed of SRAM devices and ...

37. Seagate to offer hybrid hard drives for Vista notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 June 2006

    ... among the largest hard drive manufacturers. Late last year, Toshiba initiated the PMR age with a little impressive single-platter 40 GB 1.8" drive, followed by Seagate with a 160 GB 2.5" device that was ...

38. Intel: 40% performance claim applies to Core 2 Duo, not yet to Extreme

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 16 May 2006

    ... us by Intel's communications manager for the desktop products division, Jodi Geniesse. The company had taken two identical Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 notebook computers (the model number in the photo ...

39. Toshiba and Lenovo increase presence in retail stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    Toshiba today announced a new tablet PC that will be sold through retail outlets in the US. The Portege M405-S8003 will be available in only one configuration, but carries a substantially lower price ...

40. Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 March 2006

    ... supplier of the world's Flash memory, with an estimated 50.4% market share in terms of revenue among the top seven suppliers, in Q4 2005. Only Toshiba, the #2 player by iSuppli's estimate with 19%, has ...

41. Microsoft to release patch for power drain bug

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 February 2006

    ... Needless to say, we were curious whether there were more notebook manufacturers making use of the confidential patch. We asked representatives from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba ...

42. Four ultra-lightweight notebooks compared

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 January 2006

      MobilityGuru posted a comparison sub-3 pound laptops from Dell, Fujitsu, Sony and the ultra-small Toshiba Libretto U100. Westlake Village (CA) - MobilityGuru posted a comparison of sub-3 pound ...

43. Seagate announces 160 GB perpendicular notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 January 2006

    ... 160 GB on two platters and will be available in volume in February. Seagate trails Toshiba about five months in introducing the first hard drive using perpendicular recording technology, but is first in ...

44. CES: Toshiba announces Gigabeat audio player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Wednesday, 05 January 2005

      Toshiba provides at CES a glimpse of its new audio player family named "Gigabeat". Toshiba provides at CES a glimpse of its new audio player family named "Gigabeat". The players will be available ...

45. Sequence's MTCMOS technology reduces leakage power

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 03 November 2004

    ... when the logic is inactive. Sequence developed and announced the technology together with Toshiba. The firms gave vague data, how effective the approach will be: "Reductions of 10x to 100x in leakage can ...

46. Fuel Cells May Power Cell Phones, Laptops

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 July 2003

    ... might first find a home in laptops and cell phones - more than doubling battery life. NEC, Motorola, Toshiba and others are designing fuel cells to power laptops for five hours or more - compared with ...

47. Toshiba Launches Full Line Of Centrino Notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 13 March 2003

      Toshiba's Computer Systems Group announced a full suite of Intel Centrino mobile technology-based notebooks. Toshiba's Computer Systems Group announced a full suite of Intel Centrino mobile technology-based ...

48. Intel Moves Mobile Chips to 0.13-Micron

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 January 2002

    ... MEI, NEC, Sharp Electronics, and Toshiba. To give you an idea of the benefits of 0.13-micron fab, Intel claims the chips consume up to 40 percent less power, are 30 percent smaller, and 20 percent faster ...

49. Inside Intel's Copper P3

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 04 October 2001

    ... they do it. A bunch of new PDAs were announced today due to the official launch of Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 software at events in San Francisco and London. Toshiba was part of the act with the release ...

50. Olympus' Camedia E-20N Digital Camera

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 21 September 2001

    ... - and I'm not really even that "green" or "politically correct." Toshiba is no exception in the quest for devices that give you more mobile time for each battery charge, and the company just announced ...