Toshiba is to replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries worldwide, the third recall of faulty batteries made by Sony since mid-August. The batteries, used in Toshiba's Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops made between March...
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Toshiba will soon put its second generation of HD DVD players on sale in the U.S. The Tokyo company kicked off the high-definition movie battle in the U.S. earlier this year when it put its...
Microsoft has confirmed that Japanese firm Toshiba will make its portable media player - "Zune" - to be released before the end of the year. Toshiba's filing with the Federal Communications Commission showed the Zune...
Toshiba will next month ship the world's first consumer-oriented HD DVD player capable of writing to next-generation recordable media, the Japanese giant said today. The unit also features a whopping terabyte of hard disk storage...
Toshiba introduces the Gigabeat V30T 30GB MEV30T portable media player with terrestrial digital TV tuner (One-Seg aka 'wansegu'). The Toshiba Gigabeat V30T runs Microsoft's Portable Media Center and features a 3.5 inch color TFT...
By now we all know that Toshiba has released its HD-DVD drive to the wild. Some people didn't care, while others had to be the first to own one. For Lorin Thwaits, being among the...
Limited shipments of the first nextgen DVD player, Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD player, have started to slowly hit store shelves. Most noteably, in the United States, Best Buy locations received small inital shipments, with BestBuy.com ...
Toshiba have announced the delay of their HD-DVD players in the US. They said that the players will now be released in April so that it can synchronise the release with film releases from Hollywood...
Toshiba said Tuesday it has abandoned its initial plan to launch High-Definition DVD players in Japan by the end of this year, due to a delay in implementing copy-protection measures. Toshiba is not able to...
Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp, both of Japan, announced on Wednesday that they will be working together to jointly develop the technology required to produce next generation semiconductors. Their goal is to come up...
Toshiba has claimed that they have developed the first laptop computer with its new HD DVD drive. This supports the Microsoft's claims that the format is suitable for the next generation portable computers. The company...
After originally planning to release HD-DVD players to the US market late this year, Toshiba has announced a delay until February or March of 2006. Toshiba and other HD-DVD supporters have agreed that a...
Toshiba has announced their development of a compact methanol fuel cell capable of powering a digital music player for up to 60 hours on a single charge. About the same as a pack of gum,...
Microsoft and Toshiba said Monday they will strengthen their joint development of PCs and consumer electronics goods and consider working together on next-generation DVD technology. Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook PC maker,...
Contrary to our last report, heres an update on the joint venture by Sony & Toshiba to adopt a DVD standard. So disregard the post under this one, or disregard the one above it. Whichever...
Japan's Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are close to finalizing a plan to develop a common standard for next-generation DVDs to resolve a three-year-long battle over formats that threatened the industry's growth, a Japanese newspaper...
Japan's Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are in talks to develop a common standard for next-generation DVDs and end a fierce battle over formats that has been threatening to stifle the industry's growth. Sony and...
What is a Tablet PC? To be very simple, think a laptop with a screen that's able to flip around and can also be written on. But it's so much more than that. How much...
Toshiba used the Cebit trade show to demonstrate for the first time an operating prototype fuel cell for notebook PCs, but the company, citing size, weight and regulatory concerns, said it will not commercialize the...
IBM, Sony and Toshiba on Monday unveiled some key details on the powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and TVs. Cloaked in secrecy...
Toshiba Corp. said on Monday it had won support for the HD DVD optical disc standard from Warner Bros. Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema, advancing its cause in the battle for...
Toshiba Corp. has announced a voluntary exchange program for memory modules in some of its notebook PCs after identifying a module problem that could cause the PCs to exhibit blue screens, lock up, or experience...
Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Wednesday it would introduce notebook computers with HD DVD technology in the last quarter of 2005 in a move to pressure rivals in the battle over formats for next-generation DVDs....
Toshiba on Monday announced in Japan that it's increasing the song capacity of its Gigabeat line of hard drive-based digital audio players. The HDD Audio Player Gigabeat line will top out at 60 gigabytes and...
Following reports from last month, Tadashi Okamura confirms that the CELL chip is nearing completion. Following reports from last month that the CELL chip's designs have almost been wrapped, the Nikkei Journal...
Canon and Toshiba announced today that they would be launching a partnership worth $1.82 billion to produce the next generation of flat-panel display screens - Surface Conduction Electron Emitter Displays, or SED for short. The...
Toshiba today added 30GB and 60GB models to its 1.8in hard drive line-up, both offering what the company claims is the highest areal density of any hard drive of that format. The two models feature...
Toshiba is brining out a new line of laptops today (Qosmio). This breed of multimedia laptops can play and digitally record TV programs, DVDs and other video and audio material from the Internet. ...
Toshiba on Thursday unveiled a supersize hard drive for notebooks. The 100GB storage vault, the MK1031GAS, will pack 20GB more capacity than Toshiba's current biggest drives for notebooks. While most notebooks...
Toshiba Corp. began producing sample memory chips based on Rambus Inc.'s next-generation XDR (extreme data rate) memory technology on Thursday, the Japanese company said the same day. XDR, which was formerly known by...
Toshiba has developed a 0.85in hard disk platter and will begin sampling drives based on the tiny unit to mobile phone and PDA manufacturers next summer. The 2-3GB drives will go into mass production early...
Industry-leading 65nm process to begin sample production in Q1 '04 Trial runs of the advanced semiconductor manufacturing process which will eventually create the much-vaunted Cell microprocessor are set to start at Toshiba's...
Today at WPC Expo 2003 in Tokyo, Microsoft Corp. and Toshiba Corp. announced an agreement to deliver Microsoft® Office OneNote (TM) 2003 preinstalled on all new Toshiba laptops and Tablet PCs worldwide. OneNote 2003, the...
IBM and Toshiba may work with notebook companies in Taiwan to launch low-priced Tablet PCs, according to sources at Taiwanese notebook makers. The two computer giants have been in frequent contact with some Taiwanese notebook...
Toshiba has credited its channel-to-market strategy as crucial in recording its best-ever quarter and year in the period to 31 March. In the quarter ended 31 March, Toshiba sold 40,423 units, a...
A REPORT ON NIKKEI NET said that Toshiba will invest ¥15 billion to expand a factory in Yokkaichi that makes Flash memory. That follows a decision Toshiba made last month to spend ¥350...
Toshiba on December 13 confirmed plans to invest 350 billion yen over four years starting in fiscal year 2003 (April 2003-March 2002) to build two 12-inch fabs, one making system LSIs and the other memory...
MICROSOFT'S EFFORTS to change the way we use computers is gathering momentum, as more of its hardware partners release their products based on Tablet PC technology. The latest to arrive in PC Advisor's Test Centre...
Japan's Toshiba Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided not to extend a planned semiconductor alliance into a full merger of their chip operations, company sources were quoted as saying on Saturday. The...
Japan's two largest chipmakers, Toshiba and NEC, said on Tuesday they have agreed to jointly develop next-generation memory chips that reduce power consumption to compete with overseas rivals. "By forming a partnership with Toshiba, we...
