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ASUS eye Toshiba in bid to make top three notebook ranking

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

ASUS aren't messing around when they say they want to crash the top three notebook vendors worldwide, even if that means they need to make some acquisitions rather than rely on their own product line. According to ASUS chairman Jonney Shih, the company is eyeing up Toshiba's notebook division as a potential target for buy-out, the latter company itself having around 5-percent of the worldwide product share.

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Toshiba 320GB 1.8-inch HDD is world’s biggest

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

toshiba 320gb hdd Flash and solid-state drives have been catching up to tiny, 1.8-inch traditional hard-drives in ultramobile applications over the past year or so, but Toshiba don’t think spinning platters are quite outmoded yet. The company have revealed three new 1.8-inch HDDs including the industry’s first 320GB unit, using unique high-density platters that permit data density of 516Gbpsi.

Each of the 3.0Gbps SATA drives spin at 5,400rpm and have 16MB of buffer memory, while there’s apparently less of the high-pitched whine sometimes associated with such HDDs; in fact noise is down between 4 and 5dB over previous models. As well as the 320GB drive, there are 160GB and 250GB versions.

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US DOJ subpoenas Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony in antitrust investigation

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Oct 27th 2009 No Comments

Antitrust investigations and allegations of price fixing are nothing new from Hitachi and Toshiba. Both firms were embroiled in the LCD price fixing scandal that resulted in some Japanese executives getting prison terms and the companies received massive fines. The US DOJ has now issued new subpoenas to Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony in a new anti-trust investigation that centers on the optical drive units of each company.

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Toshiba launches PF60A000001 Dynario methanol fuel cell in Japan

By Shane McGlaun on Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009 No Comments

I have been waiting for a fuel cell to come along for a long time now that I can refill on the go for continuous charging and power of my mobile gear like my iPhone and my notebook. I have used some fuel cells before, but they have been disposable. Toshiba has unveiled a new methanol fuel cell that is launching today that can be refilled on the go.

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Toshiba update full notebook range with Windows 7

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

The remainder of Toshiba’s new notebook line may not get touchscreens like the M505 Touch and U505 Touch, but you can’t accuse the company of missing out any particular niche. The Windows 7 update gets applied across the board, with the Toshiba Mini NB205 netbook getting Win 7 Starter and either 160GB or 250GB storage (MRSP from $399.99), all the way up to the 18.4-inch Satellite P500 with a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Turion II CPUs, optional Blu ray and harmon/kardon speakers (MRSP from $799.99).

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Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch & M505 Touch get Windows 7 multitouch

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

Acer isn’t the only one with touch on the brain today, with Toshiba outing a range of new Windows 7 laptops of which two offer a multitouch display. The Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch (U505-S2980-T) and Satellite M505 Touch (M505-S4990-T) have 13.3-inch and 14-inch displays respectively, both use Intel’s Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz processor with 4GB of memory (8GB max) and pack 500GB hard-drives. Toshiba also load on their own touch-friendly software, including the Bulletin Board organizer and digital media display, and the ReelTime timeline-based history.

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Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade confirmed

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 6th 2009 No Comments

Back when we reviewed the Toshiba TG01 in July, we concluded that Windows Mobile 6.5 might turn the Snapdragon-based smartphone into a more attractive device. Now, with the new OS official, Toshiba have confirmed that existing TG01 owners will be able to download the WM6.5 update from their site.

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Super Talent unveils UltraDrive DX branded Toshiba SSD

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Oct 6th 2009 No Comments

Super Talent has added a new SSD to its storage line called the UltraDrive DX. This SSD is a branded Toshiba product with MLC NAND technology to provide fast read and write speeds. The UltraDrive DX has two levels of security on the drive to protect data.

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Toshiba Biblio ebook reader mobile phone tips up

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

The Toshiba Bibilo eBook reader mobile phone is an interesting device for the user who likes the idea of an eBook reader that they a can always have on them. MFlex has announced that the Biblio mobile phone uses its Morphpad Display technology. The handset itself is a horizontal sliding device that has keyboard.

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Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 HDTV: 8 simultaneous time-shift channels

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

Toshiba have announced their latest high-end LCD TV, and it’s the first to include the Cell Broadband Engine for multi-channel display and DVR recording. The Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 has a 55-inch, 5,000,000:1 contrast LED-backlit panel, with independent control over each of the 512 LED backlighting zones and 240Hz refresh. It’s accompanied by a processor box, housing the Cell goodies, which can pump out eight channels to be shown on-screen at once, time-shift up to eight channels simultaneously for 26 hours, or boot up a web browser based on Opera.

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