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1. Best Buy sells Acer notebook for $250

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... give away six months of AV protection through the holiday season. It will offer over 30 laptops from Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, Gateway, Sony, Toshiba and Lenovo in prices that range from $250 to $2,000. ...

2. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 31 August 2009

   ... Toshiba. Part of the reason for the big rise in shipments is good old bribery. In many regions, telecom providers have been offering subsidized netbooks, and in Western Europe, some are giving them away. ...

3. PC industry staggering back - reports

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   ... of HP notebook in 2010 and also has firm orders from Apple, Sony and Lenovo. Wistron will benefit from Acer outsourcing 10 million, while it will also produce a million notebooks for Toshiba. On the LCD ...

4. Dell down but netbook sales save PC day

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

   ...  8.2% 2.9% 5 Toshiba 3,494 5.3% 3,163 4.6% 10.5% Others 26,407 39.8% 29,202 42.7% -9.6% All 66,291 100% 68,403 ...

5. Dozens of companies sued over packet radio patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 08 July 2009

   ... Option Wireless, Palm, Panasonic, Seiko, Sharp, Sierra Wireless, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, UTstarcom, Xerox and ZTE Corporation. The patents in question are US 6,480,497 and 5,400,338 called Method ...

6. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 22 June 2009

   ... weak desktop shipments, which dragged down its overall market share," Wilkins said. The rest of the top five saw Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba achieve market shares of 11.1 percent, 6.7 percent, and 5.2 percent ...

7. 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 ...

8. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Wednesday, 18 February 2009

   ... Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, and Toshiba all ship exciting innovations created by NVIDIA as a result of its agreement with Intel." Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement ...

9. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 09 January 2009

   ... current report sees Nokia in the lead, followed by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Samsung and Fujitsu-Siemens. Trailing the pack are Apple, Philips, Lenovo, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo is dead last and scores ...

10. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... only within Apple’s own notebook line, but also in comparison to Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300, which has been refreshed already. Expect Apple to upgrade the Air with a new thin 120 GB HDD from Toshiba (up ...

11. 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 ...

12. Dolby sound technology comes to more laptops

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    ... Experience will turn up in notebook PCs from the likes of Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and MSI. These laptops will bundle in Dolby's Home Theater and/or Sound Room offerings, reportedly offering sound performance ...

13. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... US vendors are Acer (1.3 million units) and Toshiba (907,000 units, IDC: 888,000) who grabbed 8.1% (IDC: 7.8%) and 5.5% (IDC: 5.2%) respective shares of the market. Preliminary U.S. PC vendor unit shipment ...

14. Apple and Palm new targets in touchscreen patent crusade

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

    ... and goes after the Big Boys, which could be significantly more expensive, difficult and time consuming than its first wave of suits: The expanded suit names Apple, Fujitsu Computer Systems, Toshiba America ...

15. Notebook market still buzzing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... the industry average included Toshiba (#4, +21%), Fujitsu-Siemens (#6, +26%) and Sony (#9, +3%). One year ago, Sony was ranked at #6 and has been surpassed by Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple and Asus.    ...

16. 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 ...

17. LCD panel makers developing 17.3", 16:9 notebook panels

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 June 2008

    ... industry sources.Vendors, such as Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, and Asustek Computer, are all expected to roll out 17.3" notebooks, the sources said, adding Samsung Electronics does not have plans to develop ...

18. Dell aims to cut power consumption of PCs by 25%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... #5 in among 18 rated companies – ahead of Nintendo, Panasonic, Philips, Microsoft, Acer, Sharp, Sony Ericsson, LGE, Apple, FSC, HP, Motorola and Lenovo, but behind Samsung, Toshiba, Nokia and Sony.   ...

19. Are Apple computers overpriced?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    ... trend first more than 10 years ago and we have others like Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and even Microsoft trying to catch up. To us, the problem in PC products still seems that design is ...

20. 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 ...

21. Dell surrenders #2 in notebook market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    ... pass Dell’s Q4 shipments.  Following Dell in #3 are Toshiba (+24% to 2.86 million units), Lenovo (+38% to 2.73 million), Fujitsu-Siemens (+30% to 1.62 million), Sony (+35% to 1.59 million) and Asus ...

22. Apple outgrows all other PC manufacturers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 05 March 2008

    ... than that. HP, in position one, posted a growth of 25.5%, Dell bounced back to 17.4%, Acer (thanks to the acquisition of Gateway) saw a 25.0% increase, Lenovo 21.3% and Toshiba 25.3%. Apple remains the ...

23. Hewlett-Packard increases lead over Dell in worldwide PC market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 January 2008

    ... 32.9% to 24.3 million PCs, followed by Lenovo with 20.1 million (+20.9%), and Toshiba with 10.9 million units (+18.9%). The total market volume for the year was 271.2 million PCs, up 13.4% from a year ...

24. Is the Consumer Electronics Show on its last leg?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 January 2008

    Analyst Opinion - There were great events and some amazing things at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES. Warner Brothers started off by blind siding Toshiba with a move to go exclusively ...

25. Greenpeace: "Wii" disapprove of Nintendo

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 November 2007

    ... list. This is the sixth time Greenpeace has provided an electronics report, and the first time that it gave a company a zero score. Toshiba, LG, Fujitsu, Dell, and Lenovo were all other companies that ...

26. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... redefined to move data in this way, but are not currently. Supporters Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba ...

27. U.S. PC sales grow 7% in Q2 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 July 2007

    ... the quarter was 23.6%. Gateway, Apple, Toshiba, and Acer rounded out the top five in the US, respectively, each taking in between 5.2% and 5.6% market share.  Acer is perhaps the most notable, as ...

28. Acer wrestles its way into the top 3 of notebook makers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 April 2007

    While HP has managed to surpass the overall PC as well as notebook shipments of a struggling Dell, Acer has managed Toshiba in the notebook market and now ranks as the third largest notebook vendor worldwide ...

29. 2006 PC shipments top 228 million, IDC estimates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 January 2007

    ... and traded places with Toshiba, which shipped 2.4 million PCs. IDC said that Apple saw another quarter of "very solid growth as the company combined new portable products with strong retail sales ...

30. HP recaptures lead from Dell in notebook shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 December 2006

    ... market in Q3, followed by Dell with 17.5%, Acer with 11.8%, Toshiba with 10.7% and Lenovo with 8.2%. An interesting development is that neither HP nor Dell were able to keep pace with the worldwide 29% ...

31. 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 ...

32. 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 ...

33. 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 ...

34. 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 ...

35. 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 ...

36. 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 ...

37. 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 ...

38. 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 ...

39. Dell loses market share to HP, says IDC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 April 2006

    ... strong in the Asia/Pacific market, but Asia/Pacific isn't really on the hot side of its hemisphere right now. Picking up the slack from Lenovo in the US is Toshiba, which now claims the #4 slot in US market ...

40. 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 ...

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. CES 2006: Highlights of Friday's coverage from TG Daily

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 08 January 2006

    ... rumors. Meanwhile, in the real world, we saw some notebook computers that started sporting extreme, very-high-tech equipment. Toshiba's new line of Qosmios, for example, manage the feat of supporting ...

43. Top-5 notebook vendors to grab over 70% global market share in 2006

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 December 2005

      The top-five notebook vendors - Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo (formerly IBM) - are expected to grab a combined 70.5% share of the global notebook market in 2006, up from 60.1% ...

44. Growth of PC market to be impacted by economic downturn, says IDC analyst

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 19 October 2005

    ... White-box guys. Unknown entities. Very local guys." A few exceptions: Sony, whose VAIO brand is fading in the desktop segment; followed by Toshiba and Fujitsu, which are entirely or predominantly mobile ...