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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... intensive applications, including ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding and computer-aided engineering. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony 

A report from computer warranty ...

2. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Price no guarantee of quality A report from computer warranty firm Square Trade shows that Apple could only manage fourth place, behind Asus, Toshiba and Sony, in terms of laptop reliability. The research ...

3. 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. ...

4. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 23 October 2009

   Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed a letter of intent with Kazatomprom, a firm owned by the Republic of Kazakhstan, to create a joint venture in rare metals.Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed ...

5. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   Japanese giant Toshiba, long at the forefront of developing fuel cells, said it will sell its first direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) product for mobile products in a limited edition on the 29th of October.Japanese ...

6. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   ... cost handsets, phones, smartphones. The design uses ARM MPCore technology, already licensed by Broadcom, NEC, Nvidia, Renesas and Toshiba. It supports Android, Adobe Flash, JAVA SE, Java FX, Linux, ...

7. Super Talent and Toshiba encrypt SATA SSDs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   Super Talent Technology and Toshiba have unveiled a line of encrypted SATA SSDs. According to Super Talent spokesperson Joe James, the UltraDrive DX employs a dual-security layer to thwart the unauthorized ...

8. Toshiba shows off Cell chip TV

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   Giant Japanese manufacturer Toshiba will release a TV in Japan that uses the Cell multimedia chip.Giant Japanese manufacturer Toshiba will release a TV in Japan that uses the Cell multimedia chip. The ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    Toshiba has unveiled a laptop targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia enthusiasts. The Qosmio X500 - which is powered by Intel's new Intel Core i7 processor - features a 18.4-inch diagonal widescreen ...

12. Apple flash flood leaves NAND drought for others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 13 September 2009

    ... other players in the lurch with severe shortages in store. So says Taiwanese wire Digitimes, claiming that major manufacturers including Samsung, Micron, Toshiba and Hynix are favoring Apple over other ...

13. Microsoft preps next-gen Windows Mobile 6.5 phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... Wireless, HP, HTC, LG Electronics, Samsung and Toshiba.  ...

14. 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. ...

15. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Pavilion dv6T, Alienware M17, Acer Aspire 5739G, Toshiba Satellite M500, Sony VAIO FW Series, Samsung R522, Asus W90Vp-X1, MSI GX623 and Dell Studio 15. "As consumers increasingly demand greater visual ...

16. 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 ...

17. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... players like TSMC. Rank Company CEO 1 Intel Corporation Paul Otellini 2 Samsung Electronics Kim-Hee Lee 3 Toshiba Semiconductors Shozo Saito 4 Texas Instruments ...

18. Toshiba caves in and joins Blu-ray camp

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

      Tokyo, Japan — If you can't beat 'em: Toshiba has finally applied to join the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and plans to introduce products that support the Blu-ray format. Tokyo, Japan — If ...

19. Toshiba to Launch World's First 64GB SDXC Card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    Toshiba is to launch the world's first 64GB SDXC Memory Card compliant with the new UHS104 SD Memory Standard. The company also has new 32GB and 16GB SDHC cards supporting the new standard which allows ...

20. Consumer electronics spending expected to drop by 7.7% in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has updated its 2009 sales forecast. The organization expects the first annual drop in revenues since 2001, which are expected to be about $165 billion in ...

21. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    Toshiba may finally concede in the high-def disc format war if we believe a media report claiming that the company may roll out its first Blu-ray player before the end of the year. Of course, if true, ...

22. IBM sued over DRAM patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... time and has only resorted to law because the talks have gone nowhere. Mosaid has a long list of licensees for its DRAM and embedded memory patents including Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. Quantum key distribution network breaks all records

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... organisations including the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (formerly Austrian Research Centers), id Quantique, Toshiba Research in the UK, Université de Genève, the University of Vienna, CNRS, Thales, ...

26. Apple 'makes $420 on each iPhone sold'

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... manufacturing cost." iSuppli reckons the most expensive component in the phone is the 16GB of Toshiba flash memory, which it values at $24. The cheapest part is a Cirrus Logic audio codec priced at ...

27. Rambus showcases 7.2Gbps XDR memory system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... the Sony Playstation 3, DLP projectors, Teradici PC-over-IP computing systems, Toshiba's Qosmio laptop, as well as PCs and HDTV chip sets.  ...

28. 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, ...

29. 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 ...

30. Commercial standard DNA chips come closer

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    ... consortium includes Toshiba, Mitsubishi Rayon and Toray Industries. DNA chips are slivers of glass or silicon layered with deoxyribonucleic acid. They are used to test for diseases using blood or other ...

31. IBM extends chip agreement with Japanese giants

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    NEC and Toshiba have extended tech development agreements with Big Blue to create a 28 nanometer high-k metal gate low power chip technology.NEC and Toshiba have extended tech development agreements with ...

32. Moore’s Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

    ... deny that Moore’s Law’s death can be predicted, especially since Gordon Moore said back in 2007 that his prediction can be upheld for at least another 10 years. Also, Toshiba yesterday unveiled plans ...

33. Toshiba on track for 16nm process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    Japanese electronics giant Toshiba is heralding the return of germanium in a new semiconductor process that promises to be viable at 16nm - roughly half the size of today's state of the art technology. ...

34. NAND flash prices prompt cheap iPhone speculation

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    ... rises are also due to major manufacturers Toshiba and Samsung throttling output, as well as Apple being a major buyer. The story is here (subscription needed).  ...

35. Samsung, Sandisk kiss and make up

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    It was going to be the wedding of the 21st century. Samsung was going to take Sandisk to the altar and wed her in a flash.It was going to be the wedding of the 21st century. Samsung was going to take Sandisk ...

36. Nvidia's insurance company falls out over faulty chips payments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 15 May 2009

    ... court, calling on the court to  make a declaration concerning insurance coverage. The filing says that certain claims asserted by Dell, Toshiba, Apple, Quanta, Compal, Asus, Samsung, Fujitsu-Siemens ...

37. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... 36 percent of the market. Toshiba has 35.5 percent share, Micron sold $200 million worth, while Hynix dropped to fourth place with revenues of $171 million.  Intel's revenues in the first calendar ...

38. 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 ...

39. Hacker-proof communications get one step closer

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    ... - quantum cryptography, a completely watertight means of communication. It is now a big step closer to being used practically, as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory ...

40. Dozens of companies sued over Android name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    ... Atheros, Broadcom, Ericsson, Intel, Marvell Semiconductor, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sirf Technology, Synaptics, Texas Instruments, Asustek, IITC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, ...

41. 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 ...

42. 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 ...

43. ATI releases new 40nm 4800-series Mobile GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... ASUS N81Vp, N51Tp and W90, which use 4600-series or desktop 4870-series today. MSI's GT727 will upgrade from 4850. And Toshiba's Satellite 300 up from 4570 or 4650. AMD also has additional partners that ...

44. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 25 February 2009

    There is more consolidation in the hard drive (HDD) business as Toshiba said it intends to acquire Fujitsu’s money-losing computer mass storage unit. If the merger goes through, Toshiba will close the ...

45. 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 ...

46. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... the company to lift SSD capacities easily above the 500 GB mark.Sandisk and Toshiba unveiled their new technologies at ISSCC 2009 yesterday and said that they will provide a foundation for more storage ...

47. Verizon Wireless honoring pre-cap contracts

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    ... with the broadband card. In my case, I use a PCMCIA adapter in my Toshiba Satellite notebook, though there is also a micro-PCMCIA and USB card available. From VZAccess Manager, Internet connections are ...

48. Up next for Apple TV: Networked cable television

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... the technology, including AMD, Cisco, Intel, Sony and Toshiba. The software platform enables cable's interactive services to be deployed across different devices via set-top boxes or enabled digital TVs ...

49. Report: Flash memory heading toward price decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 03 February 2009

    ... the deteriorating economy with a shutdown of NAND production capacity. For example, Hynix closed its 8" fab and Toshiba reduced production in its 12" fab.Overall global production capacity is believed ...

50. 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 ...