Topic: Toshiba Corporation

Toshiba Portege Gets Massive Solid State Hard Drive

The venerable Portege line, Toshiba's [OTC: TOSBF] ultra-portable notebooks, has just gotten a little more venerable. The R500, the company's well-received 12.1-inch LED-backlit laptop, has officially gotten an upgrade to a 128GB ...READ»

High Def Anxiety

It's war! A format war! At least that's what seems to be coming down the pike, now that talks have broken down between Sony and Toshiba in their attempts to merge their two competing high definition DVD formats. Just to sum up: ...READ»

It's Written on the Tablets!

It's practically an eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt have a Tablet PC. But which one?READ»

Toshiba Announces Massive Notebook Hard Drives

This week Toshiba's [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry's first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state drives, which store their data on ...READ»

Toshiba To Debut First Half-Terabyte SSD For Laptops

The rise of solid-state drives gets a boost today (despite recent industry woes) as Toshiba reveals what it says is the world's first 512GB SSD for laptops. The 2.5-inch drive is aimed at the notebook crowd, as well as desktop PC ...READ»

• The Solid-State Gift Guide

Bad News For Your Gadgets: Toshiba, Sandisk Slash Flash Memory Production

Toshiba and Sandisk had plans to increase production of NAND flash memory chips as part of their Flash Alliance fab partnership, after both companies opened new 300-mm wafer fab plants last year. But the recession has taken two bites ...READ»

Toshiba Shipping DVD-to-HD Player

Still fresh off the defeat of its HD-DVD format by the Blu-Ray alliance, Toshiba [OTC:TOSBF] isn't just limping around with a case of the hi-def blues. In fact, the company is releasing this month a new standard DVD player that ...READ»

How Blu-ray Lost, Then Won, And May Lose Again

Blu-ray may have defeated HD-DVD, but now it stands a chance of becoming too overpriced for an overburdened economy to adopt. Exactly how did Blu-Ray get to this position, and what's happened since the format's victory that could keep it from taking full advantage?READ»

• Technology Format Smackdown

Toshiba Qosmio Notebook Features "Visual Gesture System"

Next month Toshiba [OTC: TOSBF] will release a new iteration of its Qosmio notebook called the G55, which is rumored to have a host of nifty specs and a reasonable $1,550 MSRP. Among those specs is a massive 18.4-inch display ...READ»

Celling Out

Toshiba revealed a prototype MP3 player that runs on a fuel cell. Using 3.5 mL of methanol to provide 35 hours of playback for a flash-based player. A hard drive player will get 60 hours on 10 mL. That's remarkable, considering my ...READ»

Why Your Future PC Will Boot-up in an Instant

I've always enjoyed watching the little twirling timer and Apple logo and hearing the "bing!" sound as my Mac boots-up (Windows users, you have your equivalent though it's not as pretty.) But now with a new chip breakthrough from ...READ»

Toshiba NB205 Kills the Netbook, But in a Good Way

Though Intel and Psion have kissed and made up over the trademark term "netbook," it doesn't matter. A new PC from Toshiba has finally killed the genre. It's dead and gone. Because the mini NB205 is the quintessential ...READ»

Toshiba Releases Methanol-Powered Fuel Cell Gadget Charger

Gadget lovers, rejoice: Toshiba has finally released its long-awaited portable fuel-cell charger for mobile devices. But at $320, the methanol cartridge-powered Dynario fuel cell isn't cheap. A single cartridge can charge a single ...READ»

Format War Ends: Toshiba Has a Blu-ray Player En Route

This is about as sweet an about-face as you'll see in business: Toshiba, proponent of the failed HD video disc format HD-DVD, is due to swallow its pride and release a Blu-ray machine later this year. It's fabulous news for ...READ»

Will Tech Buyers Ever Come Back?

Is the tech sector weaker than we think? Just last week, analysts were abuzz over buoying technology stocks: The tech-heavy Nasdaq hit 2,000 points on news that chip demand was once again rising. Philadelphia's Semiconductor Index, ...READ»

Is Toshiba's $11K Turbo TV the Media Hub of the Future?

Today Toshiba announced an ultra-powerful LCD TV powered by the same chip as the Sony PS3. It's backed by a 3 TB hard disk, and can play and record up to eight different television channels at once. It'll also cost 1 million yen ...READ»

Toshiba's Traffic Alerts Take Yet More 'Driving' Out Of Driving

Driving is becoming more and more automated: We rely on GPS, cars can even park for you...and now Toshiba's automated a nearby traffic alert system that solves the tricky problem of avoiding heavy traffic up ahead on the road.The core ...READ»

War is Hell

As I stated previously, the next generation of DVDs are coming. The industry was gearing up for a format war, though. Sony had Blu-Ray and Toshiba had HD-DVD. Both featured high definition films. Blu-Ray has larger capacity, ...READ»

HD-DVD Promotion: Customer Service or Legal Precaution?

On Saturday I found a surprise in the mail, a box containing five HD-DVDs. When I bought the HD-DVD accessory for the Xbox 360 in December, it came with a coupon to mail away for free films. I sent it out early in January and ...READ»

Is Toshiba Beating Apple to a Multimedia Tablet?

Whoa--check out this: The Toshiba JournE was just unveiled and the Engadget chaps gave it a hands-on at the IFA electronics show. It's a handheld mobile Internet device--exactly the kind of beasty Apple's supposedly working ...READ»

Are You Driven to Work?

If You're a Windshield Warrior, Here's the Technology to Make Your Car Your Desk.READ»

Toshiba’s Refreshed “Satellite” Packs WiMAX

Now that Sprint [S] has announced its big WiMAX launch in Baltimore, bunches of companies are scurrying to announce products that will incorporate the wireless broadband technology. As of this week, the XOHM network in Baltimore ...READ»

Road Warrior: The Dunned Domestic Flier

Assemble a traveling office.READ»

DigitalLife is Livin' Large

This weekend at the Javits convention center in New York is the DigitalLife conference. As I blog live from the press room overlooking the event floor, I feel overwhelmed by its size. This year's event is larger than last year's. ...READ»

HD-DVD Dead and Buried

The format war is officially dead. Toshiba, the head company in the HD-DVD camp, announced today it will stop manufacturing HD-DVD players. The film studios that supported the dead format will most likely jump to the victor, ...READ»