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1. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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, ...

4. Toshiba shows off Cell chip TV

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

7. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

8. Microsoft preps next-gen Windows Mobile 6.5 phones

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

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

9. PC industry staggering back - reports

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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 ...

10. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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, ...

14. Quantum key distribution network breaks all records

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... 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, ...

15. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

16. Commercial standard DNA chips come closer

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

18. Toshiba on track for 16nm process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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. ...

19. Samsung, Sandisk kiss and make up

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

20. Hacker-proof communications get one step closer

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... - 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 ...

21. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

23. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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 ...

24. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

26. Verizon Wireless honoring pre-cap contracts

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 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 ...

27. Up next for Apple TV: Networked cable television

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

28. Report: Flash memory heading toward price decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

29. Toshiba's Fuel Cell Charger arriving this quarter

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      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 ...

30. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... customers – including NEC, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba and Nvidia. The problem with this business model was that revenue was only coming in through consulting work and shipping products. Sony was a big ...

31. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... In order, #3 Canon had 2114, #4 Microsoft had 2030, #5 Intel had 1776, #6 Matsushita (now part of Panasonic Corp) had 1745, #7 Toshiba had 1609, #8 Fujitsu had 1494, #9 Sony had 1485 and #10 HP had 1424. IBM ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      As 1080p and Blu-ray have become mainstream in the high-definition landscape, and as we are trying to figure out how Internet content streaming will impact the future of Blu-ray, Toshiba presented ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to the previous model, the market research firm said. Key parts, which include Nvidia’s Reality Synthesizer, IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine and Toshiba’s I/O controller are now manufactured in 65 nm, cut ...

34. Solid-state disks hit half a terabyte

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Yesterday, Toshiba, IBM and AMD announced that via a joint effort they have developed a SRAM cell just 0.128 μm2. The cell is more than 50% smaller than the previous record holder, a nonplanar-FET ...

36. Nearly 50 Open Handset Alliance members now backing Android

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Sony Ericsson, Garmin, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone round up the list of companies that pledged to support the Android project, ...

37. Semiconductor industry facing double-digit declines in Q4, into Q1'09

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... major semiconductor players currently being hit by industry trends include Texas Instruments, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, Hynix, Renesas Technology, Sony and Infineon. Summary of trends Baird ...

38. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... has developed a 34 nm process which allows the companies to produce the currently smallest NAND flash chips and challenge the dominance of the two leading manufacturers, Toshiba and Samsung. Boise ...

39. Linus Torvalds’ old company acquired and gone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... as a software engineer on its staff, continued with an impressive launch of the Crusoe processor in 2000, some design wins (including Sony and Toshiba). However, Transmeta was never able to seriously challenge ...

40. Toshiba to launch 43nm SLC NAND flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Toshiba has announced the launch of a new line-up of 43nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory products available in densities ranging from 512Mb to 64Gb and in a total of 16 versions. The new ...

41. Toshiba launches quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Toshiba added a new high-performance version to its gaming laptop line X305. Equipped with a 17” screen, the Q708 version comes with an Intel quad-core CPU, a solid state disk drive and, you guessed ...

42. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... $200 mark in U.S. retail and are moving into the mainstream with big steps. Samsung, Micron and Toshiba will begin selling 256 GB drives later this year and especially Samsung maintains that SSDs will ...

43. Microsoft reportedly ready to ship Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... might launch the drive just in time for the holidays and aim for a $100- $150 price tag – in order to steal some sales from the PS3.   Xbit Labs also said that Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology ...

44. Toshiba to offer new 1.8" HDDs for use in notebooks in December

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Toshiba's subsidiary Toshiba Digital Media Network (Toshiba DMN) will begin shipments of its new 1.8" MKxx29GSG series HDDs to notebook makers and notebook peripheral distributors in December 2008, ...

45. 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, ...

46. BD drive adoption rates slower than expected due to high OEM/ODM quotes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Acer and Asustek Computer, have asked global ODM/OEM makers, mainly Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST), Pioneer and Taiwan-based Lite-On IT, to decrease quotes to ...

47. Iomega introduces a perfect fit external 320 GB drive for MacBook Air

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in exchange for those bragging rights. MacBook Air's small factor especially limits the storage space available – to a 80 GB HDD (which we believe will be soon upgraded to Toshiba’s new 120 GB models) ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the per-megabyte price for the memory declined by an astounding 36% with full year estimates of 50-60%. Samsung dictates the market with a market share north of 42%, while Toshiba holds another 28% and ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... technology firms Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Philips, Sony, Toshiba and Verisign as well as distributors Best Buy (which today acquired Napster) and Comcast. What is significant of this ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...