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Seagate: Hard drive supplies could be affected through late 2012

Seagate: Hard drive supplies could be affected through late 2012
  • Posted November 18, 2011, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • If you were hoping to stock up on cheap storage this holiday shopping season, you might be disappointed. Not only could the recent flooding in Thailand slow hard drive shipments through the fourth quarter of this year, supplies could be…

Toshiba's first ultrabook to hit Best Buy for $900

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  • Posted November 11, 2011, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • It's been a lonely month for the Zenbook and Aspire S3, but the industry's first ultrabooks are about to get some company. Toshiba's Portege Z835 will soon be available exclusively through Best Buy for $900 -- $200 less than Asus'…

Lenovo IdeaPad A1 now available, Toshiba AT200 hits the FCC

Lenovo IdeaPad A1 now available, Toshiba AT200 hits the FCC
  • Posted October 6, 2011, 7:35 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Lenovo's wallet-friendly Android tablet has quietly gone on sale via the company's online store with pricing starting at only $199 -- the same rate as Amazon's hotly-awaited Kindle Fire. The 7-inch slate carries a 1024x600 multitouch display with a 2MP camera in…

Apple decreasing dependence on Samsung for memory components

Apple decreasing dependence on Samsung for memory components
  • Posted September 22, 2011, 7:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Apple has increased orders for DRAM and NAND flash memory from two Japanese component manufacturers in an effort to further decrease dependence on Samsung for various components. Industry sources say Toshiba is handling Apple’s NAND flash parts while Elpida Memory…

Notebook players to ship less than 50k Ultrabooks initially

Notebook players to ship less than 50k Ultrabooks initially
  • Posted September 6, 2011, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Notebook vendors Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and Asustek Computer are limiting initial availibility of Ultrabooks to fewer than 50,000 units to test the market. The collective group is well aware that demand for notebook computers isn’t likely to recover by the…

Toshiba rivals Eye-Fi with two-way Wi-Fi SDHC card

Toshiba rivals Eye-Fi with two-way Wi-Fi SDHC card
  • Posted September 6, 2011, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, The Web
  • It's been four years since Eye-Fi launched the first SD memory cards capable of beaming photos and videos from any camera directly to a PC, or a range of online services, over a wireless connection. Transfers only occurred in one…

Toshiba intros highly competitive AT200 tablet, Z830 ultrabook

Toshiba intros highly competitive AT200 tablet, Z830 ultrabook
  • Posted September 1, 2011, 4:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • Toshiba's taking full advantage of this year's IFA conference in Berlin, introducing its latest contributions to the mobile computing market: an Android-based tablet and a Portege-branded ultrabook. Although there's no shortage of...

Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi join forces in LCD joint venture

Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi join forces in LCD joint venture
  • Posted August 31, 2011, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, three of Japan's biggest electronics makers, have announced plans to merge their small and medium-sized LCD panel operations into a single entity called Japan Display. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new venture is likely to…

Toshiba announces 24nm toggle-mode DDR NAND flash

Toshiba announces 24nm toggle-mode DDR NAND flash
  • Posted July 28, 2011, 5:15 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • Toshiba has introduced new flash memory chips that offer more performance and storage capacity in less space than existing parts. The company's new 24nm e-MMC chips feature toggle-mode double data rate (DDR) NAND flash memory, which boosts random access and…

Toshiba Thrive ready to ship from Newegg and Amazon

Toshiba Thrive ready to ship from Newegg and Amazon
  • Posted July 8, 2011, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Toshiba's first Android-powered tablet was just given an official U.S. release date. According to a press release issued by Best Buy on Thursday, the Thrive will be available for in-store purchase on July 10. Interestingly, while Best Buy and several…

Toshiba: world's first glasses-free 3D laptop arrives in August

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  • Posted July 6, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • Toshiba has announced it is launching the "world's first" glasses-free 3D laptop next month. First teased at CES 2011, the Qosmio F750 not only lets you view 3D images without glasses, it can also display 2D at the exact same…

Toshiba Thrive tablet with Android 3.1 ships in July, starting at $430

Toshiba Thrive tablet with Android 3.1 ships in July, starting at $430
  • Posted June 2, 2011, 5:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • The Toshiba Thrive tablet will reportedly be up for pre-order beginning June 13, 2011 at Best Buy, along with the usual "office superstores" and "e-commerce players." It will have a mid-July ship date (Engadget says it will be July 10,…

Is Toshiba abandoning its Windows 7 tablet and Chromebook plans?

Is Toshiba abandoning its Windows 7 tablet and Chromebook plans?
  • Posted May 24, 2011, 12:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • Toshiba has reportedly abandoned its Windows 7-based tablet as well as its Chromebook plans. The two devices have disappeared from Toshiba's latest product roadmap, according to sources from the PC industry cited by DigiTimes.

J&R lists Toshiba 'Thrive' Honeycomb tablet for pre-order

J&R lists Toshiba
  • Posted May 23, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware With Video
  • Toshiba's long expected entry to the tablet market is one step closer to reality. Although we have yet to hear official launch details from the company, Engadget this past weekend reported that the company's first Android Honeycomb 3.0 device would…

Toshiba to demo impressive new displays this week

Toshiba to demo impressive new displays this week
  • Posted May 17, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • Toshiba is planning on showing off next-generation displays and technologies for mobile phones, portable electronics, automotive applications, and 3D applications at the 2011 Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium (May 17, 2011 to May 19, 2011). If you're unable…

SanDisk and Toshiba announce 19nm NAND flash memory

SanDisk and Toshiba announce 19nm NAND flash memory
  • Posted April 21, 2011, 8:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Just last week IM Flash Technologies -- a joint venture between Intel and Micron Technology -- announced a new 20nm NAND memory chip manufacturing process touted as the smallest most advanced yet. But as it is common in the tech…

Toshiba intros self-encrypting, auto-erasing hard drives

Toshiba intros self-encrypting, auto-erasing hard drives
  • Posted April 14, 2011, 2:29 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, IT Security
  • Toshiba has introduced a new line of self-encrypting hard drives that offer another layer of security to professionals. The company's MKxx61GSYG 2.5-inch drives are aimed at computers and related devices used by government, medical as well as financial institutions and…

Toshiba launches new Tecra, Portégé business notebooks

Toshiba launches new Tecra, Portégé business notebooks
  • Posted April 12, 2011, 4:19 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Toshiba has refreshed its notebook offering, adding the Tecra R840, R850 and Portégé R830 notebook series to its business lineup. The company says all three have been designed with the mobility, speed, durability and battery life professionals require. "We focused…

Toshiba unveils SmartNAND memory with embedded ECC

Toshiba unveils SmartNAND memory with embedded ECC
  • Posted April 7, 2011, 10:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Toshiba has introduced a new family of NAND Flash memory products based on a 24nm manufacturing process that integrates a control chip with error correction code (ECC). Dubbed SmartNAND, they will come in five capacity points, going from 4GB up…

Toshiba's Portege R835 ultraportable up for pre-order

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  • Posted March 23, 2011, 8:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • Toshiba has begun accepting pre-orders for their newest ultra-portable Portege laptop. Starting at $899, the R835-ST3N01 packs a dual-core Core i3-2310M processor with built-in graphics, 4GB of RAM, a 13.3-inch display with 1366 x 768 resolution, 640GB 5,400 RPM hard…

Toshiba's 10.1-inch iPad 2 competitor surfaces on Amazon

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  • Posted March 21, 2011, 5:19 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • An unnamed Toshiba tablet has appeared on Amazon and seems to be the company's touted iPad competitor. Although Toshiba has claimed its device is "superior" to the iPad 2, the company has remained quiet about specifications. Fortunately, Amazon's product page…

HTC, Toshiba and others ready 10-inch tablets for June

HTC, Toshiba and others ready 10-inch tablets for June
  • Posted March 16, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • June could be a hot month for 10-inch tablets if a recently leaked document from "a major U.S. retailer" containing release dates and prices turns out to be true. The document, obtained by PreCentral, shows the HP TouchPad set for…

Toshiba to release its Windows 7 tablet in H2 2011

Toshiba to release its Windows 7 tablet in H2 2011
  • Posted February 16, 2011, 8:37 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • Toshiba is planning to release a 11.6-inch tablet running Windows 7 Home Premium and powered by Intel's Atom Oak Trail processor in the second half of this year. The slate won't be out for so long since the company is…

Toshiba launches world's first LIF SATA 1.8-Inch HDDs

  • Posted January 26, 2011, 12:43 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • Toshiba has announced the industry's first 1.8" drives with low-insertion force (LIF) SATA connectors, enabling a 10 percent smaller footprint compared to standard 1.8" drives using microSATA connectors. Samples will be available for customer qualification next month.

Toshiba intros sub-$400 15.6-inch Satellite C655D with Fusion

Toshiba intros sub-$400 15.6-inch Satellite C655D with Fusion
  • Posted January 4, 2011, 2:57 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • AMD's new Fusion APUs have appeared in a number of mobile systems over the last few weeks, but most have been netbook-sized machines. Toshiba's taking the path less traveled today, launching its full size 15.6-inch Satellite C655D notebook with AMD's…

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