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1. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

2. Super Talent and Toshiba encrypt SATA SSDs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... thwart the unauthorized transfer of data.   "As a first level of security the UltraDrive DX supports encrypted password protection," said James. "As a second level of protection, the DX incorporates ...

3. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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 ...

4. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... more units sold quarter-over-quarter in the first six months of 2009. According to AMD, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 and ATI Mobility Radeon 4670 have scored over 200 design wins including the HP ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   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 ...

7. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   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, ...

8. Quantum key distribution network breaks all records

   (Security/Security Features)

   ... and the longest link being 83 kilometres, the network breaks all records. The researchers write, "In our paper we have put forward, for the first time, a systematic design that allows unrestricted scalability ...

9. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... first three months of 2009," says iSuppli principal analyst Matthew Wilkins. "The first-quarter performance of the worldwide PC market was worse than iSuppli had expected in its prior forecast, which called ...

10. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The price of NAND flash memory is stabilizing after manufacturers slowed down supply of chips. But even after that action, sales of branded Flash fell by 2.4 percent in the first quarter of this year ...

11. Apple notebooks lauded

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in its latest report, with MacBooks getting the nod in every category. In the 13-inch notebook segment, Apple took the top three spots, with the unibody MacBook first, the MacBook Air second place, and ...

12. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... and what my initial impressions are. AMD The DV2 represents AMD first major set into the mobile space and it is as much a proof of concept as a new offering. They believe that the market can be better ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the biggest margin of all iPods in the lineup. In comparison, the bill of materials for the first generation iPod touch and the third generation iPod nano (both released in 2007) came down to 49% and ...

14. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... computer storage division within the first quarter of its fiscal year 2009 and make it a Toshiba subsidiary. Fujitsu will continue to hold a stake of less than 20% in the new company for “a certain period ...

15. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... industry and consumers now count on innovations from NVIDIA. Microsoft recently endorsed ION because it offers consumers the first truly affordable premium Windows experience. Late last year Apple selected ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... efforts. One of them is Sandisk, which just announced the first 32 nm flash memory chip as well as the first 4-bit cell -- innovations that should help the company to lift SSD capacities easily above the ...

17. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Crusoe processor in January of 2000, Curiously enough, that happened one day after Intel announced its first lower power SpeedStep processor, the Pentium III-M. The excitement for Transmeta did not last ...

18. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... “electronics industry continues to make progress in putting products on the market with reduced environmental impacts (…). In addition to the overall improvement in the year since the first Greenpeace ...

19. CES 2009: Cell TV to take Toshiba beyond HD

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... its vision for entertainment enthusiasts who are looking for more than just HDTV - Quad HDTV. The company is expected to be first to be providing a device that will be able of hitting 4K resolutions. ...

20. Land in sight: Sony cuts PS3 production cost by 35%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... especially since Microsoft has been at a breakeven point for some time and the Wii has always been profitable. According to iSuppli, the first version of the PS3 carried an estimated bill of materials ...

21. Toshiba, IBM and AMD develop smallest, most stable FinFET SRAM to date

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... cell size will remain stable even at a point below the projected 22nm process node, though products will first arrive at the 32nm process node (in 2010/2011 ??). Cache memory CPUs utilize cache ...

22. More shady dealings at Circuit City, this time on Black Friday

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... manager, at which time the first clerk told him that she was supervisor and there was nothing she could do because the notebook already had the work performed on it. [On a personal side note, the author ...

23. Toshiba to launch 43nm SLC NAND flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... start to come to market in the first quarter of 2009. More here at Digitimes.  ...

24. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... first, while consumer drives will be sold “later.” Scotts Valley (CA) – The world’s dominant hard drive manufacturer will begin offering flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drives next year. Seagate told ...

25. Toshiba to fully advance NAND flash to 43nm in Q1 09

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Toshiba is planning to advance all its NAND flash process technology to the 43nm node in the first quarter of 2009 and will phase out the current 56nm process in a bid to counter falling prices, ...

26. Bargain hunting: Samsung offers $5.8 billion for Sandisk

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... was valued at one year ago. Flash companies have been on a rough ride of cut-throat competition and eroding NAND prices have cut deep into the profit margins. In the first quarter of this year alone, ...

27. A new try of buy once, play anywhere – without Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... could prompt Apple in the future to open its stores to more devices.   DECE is not the first industry effort to come up with a media spec. For example, there is the Coral Consortium a (Sony-led) ...

28. Toshiba NB105 Netbook spotted: Atom, 8.9-inch screen, Win XP

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Toshiba is no stranger to compact notebooks - its long-standing Libretto series is evidence of that - but the company has waited a while before unveiling a budget netbook.  Now the first details ...

29. Toshiba rolls out iPod/Zune hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of 1.8” drives for the first time later this year. Irvine (CA) – Coinciding with the release of new iPods and Zunes, Toshiba is also offering new models of its mainstream 1.8” hard drives, which are ...

30. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... GB will become available in Q1 2009. At first sight, Intel’s move into the SSD segment may seem to be about as sensible as was the company’s decision to build MP3 players in 2001. But a closer look reveals ...

31. Update: IBM and AMD first at 22 nm, challenge Intel’s manufacturing lead

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      IBM and its chip development partners made a stunning announcement today, apparently beating Intel in the successful production of the first functional 22 nm SRAM cell. 22 nm processors are still ...

32. Toshiba’s new Blu-ray beater is a … DVD player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Toshiba today announced its “near HD” DVD player, which effectively succeeds the company’s HD DVD players that were removed from the market earlier this year. Toshiba’s first XDE player will debut ...

33. Blu-ray players stuck above $300

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... For example, Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K has fallen below $400 for the first time just recently. The high-positioned BD50K has come down from more than $700 to just under $600 within the past four weeks. Sony’s ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 25.3% market share (IDC: 25.1%) in the US. The company's recovered from a slower first quarter, with 5.6% growth (IDC: 5.9%), a little above the US industry average. Gartner says that HP's inventory issues ...

35. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... rpm) however are limited to 167 GB per disk. Toshiba 200 GB disks are the first to break the 300 GB per square inch density barrier in the 2.5” space (308 Gb per square inch).   The manufacturer ...

36. Blu-ray players taking aim at $300

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      As Microsoft announces a $299 Xbox 360, we are noticing Blu-ray player prices diving as well and distancing themselves from the Blu-ray-equipped Playstation 3 for the very first time. Patience ...

37. Apple and Palm new targets in touchscreen patent crusade

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

38. Toshiba to use Cell processor in next Qosmio multimedia notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Today we got first glimpse on Toshiba’s new high-def strategy, which most certainly will revolve its stripped-down Cell processor called Spurs Engine (SE). The SE1000 chip will make its commercial ...

39. Notebook market still buzzing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      It is no secret that notebooks are driving PC sales these days, but first quarter numbers may have even surprised the most optimistic analysts. With the exception of Sony, all large notebook manufacturers achieved ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

41. Toshiba preps 1.8” 160 GB hard drives for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... is first to lift the capacity to 160 GB and deliver an interesting product for compact PCs and ultra-portables. Irvine (CA) – 1.8” hard drives are facing tremendous pressure these days from solid state ...

42. Scaled-down Cell CPU beats Intel’s quad-core chip in video transcoding

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      During Computex 20008 we had a chance to visit Corel's suite at the Grand Hyatt hotel, which featured, at least as far as we know, the first third party demonstration of Toshiba’s SpursEngine ...

43. Blu-ray player prices showing signs of downward trend

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Market Scan – It has been about four months since Toshiba decided to shut down its HD DVD format and so far, consumers have seen Blu-ray player prices on the rise. However, June is the very first ...

44. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... confusion, let us first stress that Tegra is not a CPU. Neither is a GPU or a combination of both with one part dominating the other. Instead, Tegra is a “system-on-a-chip” (SoC) or “computer-on-a-chip” ...

45. Is ‘Roku’ the formula to solve the movie download dilemma?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      Netflix and Roku today introduced a movie streaming box that, for the very first time, may attract the mass market to rent movies via the Internet and not via a store or by mail: The Roku box ...

46. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... GB 5400 rpm model. According to Seagate, the Momentus 7200.3 consumes about 2.1 watts during read/write and 2.3 watts during seek processes. Dell and Alienware are the first system builders to offer ...

47. AMD turns TSMC into a CPU manufacturing giant

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... GPU and AMD's Shanghai core, manufactured in a 45 nm SOI process. But this will also be world's first GPU manufactured using SOI. The second manufacturer that might be lured into this technology may be ...

48. Apple may be stylish, but it’s definitely not green

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Reports magazine article that ranked Apple first in technical support. The second half wasn’t so great as a ClimateCounts.org report put Apple at the other end of the spectrum in terms of 22 climate and ...

49. FSB limits exposed: Intel CPUs don’t scale very well in UC Berkeley HPC test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... environments. As reported first by HPC Wire, the scientists evaluated AMD’s Opteron (Santa Rosa), Intel’s Itanium 2 and Xeon (Clovertown), as well as the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell BE and Sun’s Niagara 2 processors. ...

50. Blu-ray player prices congregate at $400 while HD DVD hits rock bottom

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... resting place for Blu-ray players.  Meanwhile, HD DVD players have broken the final string and are starting to come down well under $100. The first thing to point out this week is that Panasonic's ...