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FCC Reveals Toshiba AT10LE-A Tegra 4 Tablet

Toshiba hasn't formally introduced the AT10LE-A tablet, but a filing of it has made it to the Federal Communications Commission. That means that the tablet is more or less complete, otherwise it wouldn't be up for wireless tests. Anyway, the name of the device has yet to be revealed. Given previous FCC fi...

22 May 2013
09:03 GMT

OLED Glasses, Toshiba's New and Strange Eyewear

Toshiba could have invented and released an augmented reality headset like the Glass that Google is going on about these days, but that's not what it revealed at a recent trade show. It's thanks to the folks at Tech-On website that the news has reached the Internet. Long story short, Toshiba has invented ...

21 May 2013
07:42 GMT

Next-Generation 19nm Toshiba NAND Flash Chips Enter Mass Production

While Samsung is releasing new solid-state drives, Toshiba is preparing semiconductors that will be used in its own next generation of storage devices. Which is to say, a new NAND memory chip has been invented. Just like there is more than one way to skin a goat, there is more than one way to make a solid-state dri...

21 May 2013
04:22 GMT

Toshiba Blames Microsoft for the Windows 8 Confusion

Toshiba has just joined the “criticize Windows 8” game thanks to Mark Whittard, managing director of the company’s Australian division. Whittard said during a product launch in the land Down Under that Microsoft was the one to blame for the Windows 8 confusion, especially because it brought several...

8 May 2013
09:16 GMT

Tegra 4-Based Toshiba AT10LE-A Tablet Leaked

Toshiba may have officially revealed the WT310 Windows 8 11.6-inch tablet, but that doesn't mean it has put its Arm efforts on hold. In fact, the company is fully capable of working on multiple projects at once, even if it doesn't launch them at the same time. In this case, the company has been developi...

2 May 2013
09:48 GMT

Toshiba Releases WT310 Windows 8 11.6-Inch Tablet

While Lenovo is preparing a full-size low-cost tablet running Android on ARM, Toshiba is getting ready to sell one that has a much higher price and is aimed at a different demographic as well. The name of the product is Toshiba WT310, and the demographic is business workers that need to always be on top of their ga...

2 May 2013
07:32 GMT

Canvio Connect, Toshiba's New Portable External HDD

Normally, to move files from a portable storage device to a phone or MP3 player or whatever else, one would need a PC or equivalent system to copy them to. Then, one would have to plug the phone/gadget and transfer the files again. Toshiba's Canvio Connect is above such limitations. Not only does it work direc...

30 April 2013
05:31 GMT

Toshiba Releases Fastest Memory Cards in the World, 160 MB/s Transfer Speed

CompactFlash cards have been the fastest type of memory cards ever since they first came out, and they aren't even the oldest sort. Toshiba turned things all the way up to 11 with the Exceria Pro though. Having a product that can be called world's best, fastest, or any other epithet is something that IT c...

27 April 2013
02:54 GMT

Toshiba Introduces the First Detachable Ultrabook

We've seen plenty of convertible laptops over the years, and the same can be said about tablets, especially since all of them seem to have docks these days, so Toshiba's latest revelation isn't such a surprise. The product is unique, however, in the sense that it is the first of a new type of product...

26 April 2013
02:42 GMT

KIRAbook Debuts, a High-End, Expensive Toshiba Ultrabook

Over the past month we've learned that there is a good chance of ultrabooks dropping to under $500 / €500 in price, but that doesn't mean expensive ones will disappear, as Toshiba has just proven. Much to the dismay of society, ultrabooks started out as very expensive products, which meant they delivered ...

17 April 2013
08:46 GMT

IDF 2013: Toshiba Portege Z10t Detachable Ultrabook

One of these days, people won't really know anymore what the difference between ultrabooks and tablets is, because it seems like even the former are adopting the idea of keyboard docks. That is to say, while tablets mostly sell with keyboard docks, or can use one sold separately, ultrabooks have begun to use th...

10 April 2013
05:30 GMT

Softpedia Offers Drivers for Toshiba X875-Q7190 Notebook

Toshiba's X875-Q7190 notebook drivers are a recent addition to our database. On the list you will find updates for every component on your device. Bear in mind that the drivers work only with Windows 7 and 8 on both 32- and 64-bit architecture. Given these circumstances, Vista and XP are definitely off the tabl...

4 April 2013
05:27 GMT

New 1.12 Micrometer, CMOS Image Sensor Revealed by Toshiba

Toshiba hasn't actually released its latest image sensor yet. Instead, it will officially launch it in April, although mass production won't begin until September. Called T4K71, the image sensor measures 1.12 micrometers and can record Full HD video (1080p) easily. Smooth, continuous recording of full hi...

29 March 2013
05:51 GMT

Toshiba Turkey Website Defaced by redMin Hacker

A hacker that uses the online moniker redMin, possibly connected to the Turkish Ajan collective, has breached and defaced the official Turkish website of Toshiba (Toshiba.com.tr), the world renowned Japan-based electronics company. HackRead, which has first reported about the breach, reveals that the hacker hasn&rsq...

13 March 2013
08:10 GMT

19nm Toshiba SSDs Launched in Europe

Toshiba has finally used its new error correcting technology in a collection of solid-state drives, and it even went all the way and used its most advanced manufacturing technology. By “most advanced manufacturing technology” we mean the 19nm production node. The new SSDs may not be the first to use the...

13 March 2013
06:11 GMT

MicroSDHC Card for HD Content Viewing Launched by Toshiba

This may not be a MWC 2013 announcement, but Toshiba's newest product could serve tablets and smartphones just fine. In fact, it might become a very widespread piece of hardware if the company plays its card right. Toshiba's announcement wasn't made at the Mobile World Congress, 2013 Edition, but at ...

26 February 2013
03:06 GMT

New Toshiba Breakthrough Means Low-Power Memory for Smartphones

Static random access memory isn't something that PCs or other large electronics devices use, but it is quite prevalent on the mobile phone and gadget market, so Toshiba took it upon itself to improve it. Static random-access memory (SRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory that uses bistable latching circuitry ...

22 February 2013
05:25 GMT

Toshiba Intros REGZA AT501 Tegra 3 10.1-Inch Tablet

Another week, another tablet. Toshiba is the one making a product introduction this time, using the REGZA brand. Despite REGZA’s being mostly a TV brand, the company is using it for tablets as well. The new one has a screen of 10.1 inches (diagonal) and a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. It is an IPS panel w...

12 February 2013
11:11 GMT

Rambus Intros RAM with 25% Less Power Use, 3200 MHz Speed

At one time, Rambus made most of its money from suing IT companies that actually produced things instead of relying on licensing fees and lawsuit settlements. The licensing company has lost a few high-profile suits though, which makes it a very fortunate thing that, compared to other trolls, it actually does have so...

29 January 2013
09:36 GMT

Toshiba Satellite U920t Ultrabook Convertible Gets New Drivers

Toshiba has just launched a new series of drivers for the Satellite U920t Ultrabook Convertible in an attempt to keep up with the ongoing performance updates from other brands.The recently released drivers offer improvements in the sound, wireless LAN, wireless display and media recovery sectors.Toshiba Sattelite U92...

16 January 2013
08:05 GMT

50% of All HDDs Will Be Hybrids by 2015, Toshiba Believes

This may be more of a repeat, since predictions of this sort have been done before, but Toshiba is one of the three premier HDD providers, so when it talks about such things, people listen. Indeed, Toshiba made a statement the other day, one that has to do with hard disk drive, both traditional and more revolutionar...

15 January 2013
02:24 GMT

CES 2013: Toshiba's 84-Inch 4K LED UHDTV

Just like 2011 was the year of 3D, 2013 is the year of the 4K ultra high-definition native resolution, which is why Toshiba is not letting the Consumer Electronics Show pass without a show of strength. That 4K TVs would come out en masse between January 7-8 and 11 was something that we've known for certain sin...

7 January 2013
05:21 GMT

Toshiba TransferJet Wireless Memory Cards Set for CES 2013

Toshiba may not be ready to launch its wireless memory cards yet, but its research and development team is far enough along that some prototypes can be put on display. That said, the company intends to use the 2013 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show as a stage of sorts. The SDHC reference card will use a tran...

28 December 2012
02:37 GMT

Toshiba Excite 10 tablet Updated to Jelly Bean

Toshiba hasn't forgotten about its Android tablets, even though it would have had the excuse of the winter holidays to delay updating them. The Excite 10 is the one receiving a new software package. We won't be listing their hardware specs, since we did that quite thoroughly here. We would say what improv...

27 December 2012
11:10 GMT

Lytro-Style Phone and Tablet Camera Released by Toshiba

The Lytro camera didn't get as much attention as it could have, since Lytro didn't speak of it very often and development went a bit slowly. Still, the idea of capturing the whole light field and, thus, allowing for a photo to be refocused even after being shot, has merit. Toshiba feels so at least. The c...

27 December 2012
10:45 GMT

20-Megapixel Compact Camera Sensor Created by Toshiba

The image sensor is the central part of a camera, figuratively speaking, and ultimately determines the performance, size and price of the camera. Compact digital cameras have become quite widespread, but price and component size issues prevent them from being too powerful. Toshiba wishes to circumvent this with the...

27 December 2012
08:00 GMT

Toshiba Launches New CompactFlash Memory Cards

While they do vary in performance, CompactFlash cards are the highest capacity and fastest memory cards on the market, which is why they are very well suited to digital cameras and video recorders. Toshiba's latest collection of CompactFlash cards definitely meets all possible expectations, and then some. The...

18 December 2012
14:31 GMT

Toshiba Samples 4 TB Mission-Critical Enterprise HDDs

HDDs continue to be the primary storage solution for long-term deployments, so Toshiba has decided to offer two drives for mission-critical enterprise applications. Part of the MG series, they are called "MG03ACA400" and "MG03SCA400." For the most part, they are identical, with 4 TB capacity each, a size of 3.5 inc...

12 December 2012
08:15 GMT

Best Power Consumption Promised by New Toshiba Memory Element

Random access memory already benefits from a high degree of energy efficiency, but there is always room for improvement, something that Toshiba has actively been searching for. MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) is a next-generation memory based on magnetic materials and has emerged as an alternative to S...

10 December 2012
11:14 GMT

We Had “Different” Expectations for Windows 8 – Toshiba Exec

Windows 8 is alive and kicking, with third-party statistics proving that Microsoft’s latest operating system is quickly increasing its market share. But with so many rumors swirling around and claiming that Windows 8 actually missed internal sales projections because of the hardware industry, OEMs have no othe...

3 December 2012
18:31 GMT

Toshiba MG – a High-Capacity, Business-Critical HDD Series

The winter holidays may be a time when consumers take precedence in IT companies' eyes, but that didn't stop Toshiba from finishing and launching its newest enterprise storage product line. There are four new hard disk drive units that Toshiba has introduced, all of them aimed at NAS (network-attached stor...

29 November 2012
12:31 GMT

Four-Legged Robot from Toshiba to Clean Up Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

While some companies are working on particularly strong anti-radiation suits, others have been developing vehicles and robots that all share the same purpose: to clean up the irradiated zone inside and around Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant. The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March 2011...

23 November 2012
04:41 GMT

Budget-Friendly Tablet Released by Toshiba in the UK

A new 10.1-inch tablet from Toshiba is actually no different from the so-called standard tablets that companies sell for $499-599/ 499-599 Euro / £400, but the company has managed to price it at £300 anyway. The only hardware features that can be said to have permitted this arguably decent price (£...

16 November 2012
04:45 GMT

Toshiba Reveals a Wi-Fi Embedded SD Card

Wireless memory cards are not exactly a totally recent invention, but they are very rare, due to their price and lack of a great customer base. Toshiba decided it could still benefit from launching one though. The reason Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards aren't exactly super-popular is simple: wireless connectivity i...

15 November 2012
03:26 GMT

Toshiba Also Manages to Do Fine in the Third Quarter, Makes $722 Million

We’ve only just reported on ASUS's success during the third quarter of 2012, and already there is another company that is rejoicing at its good fortune and fortuitous investments. In terms of corporate finances, this week is quite encouraging compared to the last few, during which we learned that AMD was...

31 October 2012
09:40 GMT

Toshiba Opens Windows 8 Pre-orders, Brings Back Start Menu

The latest company to add its name to the list of PC makers that accept orders for Windows 8 products ahead of their launch is Toshiba. Toshiba actually has a pretty long list of Windows 8 PCs. It can be found here. There are some low-cost systems, a number of gaming notebooks, some desktops and, of course, a bunch...

18 October 2012
02:58 GMT

Ultrabooks and Apple's MacBook Air Turn Green, Permanently

When humans figuratively turn green, it is a sign of health impairment, but when consumer electronics go green, it means that prospective buyers have one extra reason to acquire them. As most people have probably guessed by now, when we say “green” in this context we mean environmentally-friendly. EPE...

15 October 2012
12:01 GMT

SSD Prices Continue to Fall as Shipments Increase - A Storm May Be Coming

The falling price of NAND and subsequent downwards spiral of SSD unit prices have prompted Toshiba to attempt a price hike by stopping or reducing its output by an overall margin of 30% for a couple of months.The company hoped that such a move will lead to a modest breaking of the falling NAND prices, but some other ...

30 September 2012
10:51 GMT

Toshiba Presents New Hybrid Hard Drives

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has just introduced two new hybrid hard drives (HHD) that feature SLC NAND memory and come in a modest 2.5” format. The new drives feature disappointing technical specifications and likely won’t offer impressive performance. Toshiba’s new drives feature only a 8 G...

25 September 2012
02:48 GMT

Toshiba Reveals Canvio External HDD Series with USB 3.0 Interface

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has just revealed the first bits of information on its new external HDD series. The new line will feature both 2.5” and 3.5” hard disk drives and will also make use of the new and speedy USB 3.0 interface. We’re glad that the Japanese manufacturer has chosen to pu...

24 September 2012
04:41 GMT

Toshiba and Honda Team Up, Test Smart Home Systems

Earlier today, Honda Motor Co. has announced that it is to enter a partnership with Toshiba Corporation, their goal being that of testing various smart home systems and establishing what technologies help make households as energy-efficient as possible. As Honda explains, current and predicted developments in the ...

21 September 2012
03:27 GMT

Toshiba Cuts NAND Prices by 25% – SSD Prices Will Follow

Just some months ago, Japanese electronics and semiconductor giant Toshiba was announcing that it was reducing its NAND production by up to 30% to try and rebalance the supply and demand ratio on the market. The goal of the company was to increase NAND prices as that level of pricing was not profitable. What most ...

11 September 2012
04:01 GMT

Toshiba Pays $30 Million As a Result of LCD Price Fixing Suit

Being one of the companies involved in a legal scandal regarding alleged LCD display price fixing, Toshiba has decided to settle matters out of court, rather than keep dragging this matter out. Toshiba is not in the same hot water as LG, whose price fixing settlement of $380 million, or €310 million, was the b...

11 September 2012
03:43 GMT

TSMC and GlobalFoundries – The Likely Winners in Apple vs. Samsung War

As the legal clashes between the two companies are getting tougher and come about significantly more often than it happened before, Apple and Samsung are apparently becoming bitter enemies that won’t collaborate on virtually anything. For those that might not know, Samsung is the maker of most of components in...

7 September 2012
19:01 GMT

IFA 2012: Toshiba AT300 Tablet with Gorilla Glass Hands-On

Japanese giant Toshiba has displayed its high-quality 10” tablet during this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany. The new tablet is powered by Nvidia’s popular Tegra 3 SoC and sports a 64 GB storage capacity. The official name of the new gadget is Toshiba AT300 and the screen of the device is prote...

5 September 2012
05:25 GMT

Toshiba Intros Satellite P845 Touchscreen Multimedia Laptop

When Microsoft’s Windows 8 launches this October, hundreds of new Windows 8 laptops will come with it. Most of these will be re-launches, but some of them bring something really new and desirable. This new and desirable feature is the touchscreen. Many were wondering why the touchscreen is solely reserved for...

31 August 2012
13:51 GMT

IFA 2012: Hands-On with Toshiba Satellite U920T Convertible Ultrabook

Toshiba is installing Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system on ultrabooks, normal notebooks and tablets, but the device we are bringing you is a bit of each. The Satellite U920T should not be confused with the Satellite U925T. That isn't to say that the devices have nothing in common though. In...

31 August 2012
11:52 GMT

Toshiba’s Satellite U925t Convertible Tablet with 12.5” Gorilla Glass Display Revealed

Japanese company Toshiba has just revealed its innovative Windows 8 convertible tablet during this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany. The new mobile device comes with a rather big 12.5” display that slides above the keyboard. We’re quite pleased that Toshiba has decided to use the high-quality Go...

30 August 2012
12:01 GMT

IFA 2012: Toshiba Launches Satellite U940 Ultrabook

This year's IFA trade show is filled with introductions of Windows 8 products, but we were lucky enough to be invited to a Toshiba press event even before the show actually started. The Satellite U940 is one of the products that we got the early inside scoop on. It is a 14-inch Windows 8 Ultrabook. The proces...

30 August 2012
11:59 GMT

TOSHIBA Demonstrates Its First 1TB Hybrid HDD

Japanese giant Toshiba has been used by Western Digital, Seagate and the authorities as the puppet to play the role of the third “competitor” in the global HDD market. After acquiring virtually all the competition, Seagate and WD now rule over 90% of the global HDD market and exactly 100% of the 3.5&rdquo...

27 August 2012
06:11 GMT


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