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Toshiba SSDs Win Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency Award

Toshiba gained recognition during a competition recently held in Japan, by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy from the Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ). The agency conducted some tests to see which solid state drives really excelled at power saving, and the results led to Toshiba's MKx001GRZB ...

14 February 2012
11:00 GMT

Toshiba Skips Over HDMI When Updating Its Netbooks

Gateway settled for just one new Cedar Trail netbook, but Toshiba has updated its whole collection, or at least a significant part of it, with Intel's newest entry-level mobile CPUs, though there is an unexpected downside. Intel's newest Atom central processing units provide more than just a clock speed i...

13 February 2012
03:28 GMT

Toshiba Launches the Excite AT200 Tablet in Sweden

After being released in the UK just a few days ago, Toshiba’s Excite AT200 Android tablet has now also arrived in Sweden, where it is available immediately from various online and offline retailers. Meant to become a premium Android tablet, the 7.7mm (0.3 inches) thick Excite AT200 is the slimmest 10.1-inch s...

9 February 2012
10:38 GMT

Toshiba AT200 “World’s Thinnest” Tablet Now Available in UK

Almost six months after its official unveiling, Toshiba’s Excite AT200 tablet went on sale in the UK, where it is available online from Carphone Warehouse, with a starting price set at £399 ($631 US or 480 EUR). Meant to become a premium Android tablet, the 7.7mm (0.3 inches) thick Excite AT200 is said t...

7 February 2012
14:51 GMT

Toshiba Intros Its First 14-Inch Ultrabook, the Satellite U840

Toshiba has just announced the introduction of the company’s first 14-inch Ultrabook computer, dubbed the Satellite U840, which comes as the successor of the popular Portege Z830 released in the second part of last year. Design wise, the new Satellite U840 takes a lot of its cues from its predecessor, but at t...

6 February 2012
10:01 GMT

Mass Production of Toshiba 55-Inch 4K2K 3D TVs Kicks Off, No Glasses Needed

2012 is bound to see the appearance of at least several display product lines with resolutions that go beyond the Full HD image quality, and Toshiba is proving to be quite fast on its feet, so to speak. Toshiba has begun mass producing its series of 3D TVs that feature glasses-free technology and a native resolutio...

1 February 2012
03:29 GMT

Toshiba Excite AT200 to Arrive in Australia in Early February, Gets Priced

Toshiba may not have yet started selling the Excite AT200 tablet anywhere in the world, but the company did however confirm a short while ago that its ultra-thin creation will arrive in Australia in early February with a starting price of A$579 ($607 US or 467 EUR).For this much money users will get the 16GB version ...

24 January 2012
03:08 GMT

Toshiba and Lenovo Get Quanta to Make Their Windows on ARM Tablets

Looks like Quanta has scored manufacturing deals with Lenovo and Toshiba for the production of their tablets, which have ARM as a hardware platform and Windows 8 as the operating system. As previously reported, sales will only begin at some point during the first quarter of 2013. In the meantime, the companies are ...

19 January 2012
10:57 GMT

Toshiba Portege M930 Is a 13-Inch Notebook/Tablet Hybrid

For the upcoming launch of Windows 8, many notebook makers have turned their attention towards hybrid tablet/notebook designs including Toshiba who has recently showcased the Portege M930, a 13.3-inch laptop prototype that can be transformed into a slate.The concept was on display at CES 2012 and is awfully reminisce...

16 January 2012
09:32 GMT

CES 2012: Toshiba Shows Off Qosmio F750 Glasses-Free 3D Notebook

Toshiba, one of the most important companies behind glasses-free 3D technology, has demoed at this year’s CES fair the Qosmio F750 15.6-inch laptop that can display stereoscopic 3D images without the need of special glasses.The most important addition brought by Toshiba to the Qosmio F750 is of course the paral...

13 January 2012
05:41 GMT

CES 2012: Toshiba FlashAir Is the First SD Card to Feature Wireless LAN

A few days ago, the SD association announced a certain new standard for memory cards and, now, Toshiba has unveiled the first memory card to comply with it. Toshiba's exhibition at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) includes the FlashAir SD card. Basically, this is a memory card that compli...

12 January 2012
09:51 GMT

CES 2012: Toshiba Showcases 13.3 and 7.7-Inch Android Tablets

Outside of the Excite X10, Toshiba’s CES 2012 booth also includes three other tablet models with 13.3-, 7.7- and 5.1-inch screens that run Google’s Android operating system.Spotted at the show by Android Police, these pretty much seem to mimic the Excite as far as design is concerned, except for the 5.1-i...

11 January 2012
05:08 GMT

Toshiba’s Ultra-Thin AT200 Tablet Arrives in the US as the Excite X10

More than four months after we have first laid our eyes on Toshiba’s AT200 tablet, the company has announced the US availability of the 10.1-inch slate which is said to debut in mid-Q1 2012 under the Excite X10 name.Meant to become a premium Android tablet, the 7.7mm (0.3 inches) thick Excite X10 is the slimmes...

9 January 2012
03:34 GMT

Toshiba Plans Low-Budget 7-Inch Android Tablet

The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet will soon have to go ahead a new 7-inch challenger coming from Toshiba that will use the same form factor and entry-level price tag as these supped up eReaders.Pictured in all of its black and blue glory in a couple of images provided by Notebook Italia, the yet unnamed tablet is sligh...

6 January 2012
19:01 GMT

CES 2012-Bound Toshiba NB510 Netbook Previewed

Toshiba's NB510 netbook may not be set to officially debut before CES 2012, but that doesn't mean some photos of it can't show up in the meantime.It so happens that Notebook Italia just uncovered a few press shots.There seem to be black, red and blue versions of the mobile PC, all powered by the Intel ...

6 January 2012
02:41 GMT

Toshiba’s Upcoming Nvidia Tegra 3 Tablet Presumably Spotted

Acer and Lenovo aren’t the only two companies determined to prepare Tegra 3 powered tablets for 2012, as Toshiba also seems interested in Nvidia’s quad-core SoC.This was unveiled just recently when a benchmark results was submitted to AnTuTu’s online database, listed under the name of “Tostab0...

30 December 2011
19:11 GMT

PS Vita Quad-Core Processor Developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba

It seems like the trio that was behind the CELL processor found inside Sony’s PlayStation 3 was reunited to develop the quad-core CPU used by the Japanese company for the PS Vita portable console.Previously believed to be fabricated by Samsung, the chip, which is marked as CXD5315GG, was revealed by a Tech Insi...

28 December 2011
17:31 GMT

Mixel Enables Toshiba Laptops with Wide Viewing, Glasses-Free 3D

Mixel decided it was high time the world knew that it was its invention that enabled Toshiba's Qosmio laptops to deliver high-quality, wide-angle 3D playback without need for glasses. Toshiba Qosmio F750 is one example of a top-tier notebook that gets a medal for actual 3D playback without glasses. Through a ...

14 December 2011
10:32 GMT

Toshiba and BestBuy Offer the Z835 Ultrabook for $699.99 (€531)

If you planned on waiting for Ultrabooks to become cheaper, then you don’t need to wait anymore as BestBuy and Toshiba have now announced a special promotion that drops the price of the Toshiba Portege Z835 to $699.99 (€531)As Liliputing reports, that is $200 less than the list price for the Z835 as well a...

13 December 2011
11:20 GMT

Toshiba Intros 10.1-Inch Windows 7 Running Tablet in Japan

Toshiba already has quite a few tablet devices in its arsenal, but this hasn’t stopped the maker for releasing yet another slate that packs a 10.1-inch screen and runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 Professional operating system.Just like most other Win 7 slates out there, Toshiba’s creation, which was dubbe...

13 December 2011
10:24 GMT

Toshiba 7-Inch Thrive Tablet Begins Selling for $379.99 (286.48 Euro)

Toshiba has just begun shipping the Thrive tablet in official capacity, for a price that may or may not be appealing, given the size of the item. With 10.1-inch tablets selling for about $500 themselves, the price of $379.99 (286.48 Euro) might not seem so entrancing. Then again, this might be consumers' wis...

12 December 2011
09:01 GMT

Toshiba Regza AT700 Canada Launch Set for February 2012

Anyone wondering when a certain Toshiba device would launch needn't scratch their heads too much, not with leaks coming in about when Canada would receive it. The Toshiba Regza AT700 tablet will be released in February, 2012, in Canada. At least, this is what Mobile Syrup claims to have discovered, since �...

8 December 2011
05:51 GMT

Ditch Glasses with 55-Inch Toshiba REGZA 4K2K 3D TV

There are 3D TVs and there are high-end 3D TVs, and then there are things like Toshiba's REGZA 55X3, which have no qualms about blowing all competition out of the water. Certainly, the TV itself is not news on its own, not after it was announced two months ago (back in October). The reason it is getting atten...

7 December 2011
10:14 GMT

Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook Now Available for 950€ ($1278) in Europe

After the US launch of the Portege Z835 Ultrabook that dropped the price of Toshiba’s ultra-slim to a rather cool $799 (593 EUR), Europe now also received a less expensive version of the Portege Z830 that drops pricing under the 1,000 EUR mark.The new model is called the Portege Z830-10E and it was spotted in v...

5 December 2011
08:58 GMT

Toshiba Closes Three Factories, Employees Get Shuffled

There are highs and lows as time passes for the IT industry, and Toshiba is definitely at one of the lows, perhaps not even at the bottom yet, having been constrained to close off three of its factories. Toshiba is reorganizing itself in the wake of troubled marketing performance brought about by what are, for the ...

1 December 2011
09:37 GMT

Toshiba’s Regza 32BE3 HDTV Consumes Zero Watts when in Standby

Toshiba continues expanding its portfolio of green products and the company has recently unveiled in Japan a new HDTV that draws zero Watts from the power outlet when in standby thanks to a new built-in Eco Chip.Toshiba claims that the new chip added to the Regza 32BE3 will be able to detect and receive signals from ...

28 November 2011
16:01 GMT

RAM-Overstocked Toshiba and Elpida Get Helped by Kingston

In a move that might further cause memory products to get expensive again, Kingston is supposedly leaning towards buying large chip quantities from Elpida and Toshiba. More precisely, Kingston could end up ordering memory chips, on a large scale, from those companies, so as to enable them to actually get their stoc...

28 November 2011
15:41 GMT

Toshiba AT200 Excite Tablet Will Arrive in Stores in January 2012

At the end of last week, a German retailer listed Toshiba’s ultra-thin AT200 Excite on its website leading us to believe that the Android tablet will be shipped at the beginning of December, but according to Toshiba this information is wrong as the AT200 won’t arrive in stores until January of 2012.Shortl...

28 November 2011
05:42 GMT

Toshiba AT200 Ultra-Thin Tablet Available for Pre-Order, Launches in December

We first met the ultra-thin AT200 Android tablet at the IFA fair in September, but since then we haven’t heard all that much about this Toshiba creation. However, all this is set to change as it now seems like the tablet will launch in the first part of December with pre-orders already starting on several Europ...

25 November 2011
02:51 GMT

Toshiba Portege Z830 and Z835 Ultrabooks Now Available Online

BestBuy's exclusivity on the Portege Z835 Ultrabook seems to have come to an end as the company has now listed both this model and the more powerful Z830 on its retail website with prices starting at $929 (roughly 689 EUR).The lower-end version of the Toshiba Ultrabook is powered by an 1.4GHz Intel Core i3 proce...

23 November 2011
03:48 GMT

Toshiba Thrive Gets Android 3.2 Honeycomb Update, Issues Reported

Good news for Toshiba Thrive owners. The Japanese electronics manufacturer announced the availability of the latest Android 3.2 Honeycomb software update. The update is pushed OTA (over the air), so owners of the slate can check it out in the Apps menu / Service Station / Check for Updates. By simply following the ...

16 November 2011
07:51 GMT

Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba Create Japan Display

In a time when displays don't seem to be doing too well as far as sales are concerned, three companies native of Japan decided to pool their resources and start a joint venture. Then again, it would be more accurate to say that four companies contributed to the venture, especially since government-funded firm ...

15 November 2011
16:51 GMT

Toshiba Z835 Ultrabook Is a Best Buy US Exclusive, Priced at $899 (€660)

Toshiba's Portege Z830 is definitely one of the nicest Ultrabooks that are available now, and Best Buy will carry a special version of this ultra-thin, dubbed the Z835, which was specially built to come at an attractive $899 (€660) price point.In order to get the price down, this version of the Toshiba Ult...

11 November 2011
03:05 GMT

Toshiba AT200 Tablet Will Sell Starting January 2012

People may have been hoping that Toshiba's AT200 10.1-inch Android tablet would show up in time to start an early rivalry with ASUS' latest slate, but this won't happen, apparently. Based on the latest activity from Toshiba's Facebook page in Germany, the AT200 will only debut in January next ye...

9 November 2011
08:10 GMT

Toshiba Dynabook R631 Ultrabook Reaches Japan

Toshiba may not have made the fastest step on the ultrabook market, but it did, arguably, take the boldest one yet, or at least this is what the price of the dynabook R631 suggests. Right to the point, Toshiba just released, in Japan, an ultrabook that costs 139,800 Yen, which translates into $2,275 Singapore dolla...

9 November 2011
05:03 GMT

Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook UK Pricing Revealed

Our first encounter with the Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook took place at the IFA 2011 fair back at the start of September when we caught a glimpse of the device through a thick piece of glass, but fortunately this won't be the case anymore as its pricing was now unveiled with availability expected to follow soo...

4 November 2011
04:23 GMT

Toshiba Gets Into Tablet Display Action with 6.1-Inch Panel

Toshiba is known for a lot of things, like batteries and being the world's third greatest HDD supplier and, soon, it may be known as maker of tablet screens as well, maybe with glasses-free 3D support. One thing that is sure to help any company's finances over the next few years is for them to have some s...

21 October 2011
03:48 GMT

HDDs Will Be in Short Supply in December

We already spoke about how the floods in Thailand have or will disrupt the activities of the world's top HDD makers and, it turns out, December will see some real shortages. Cutting right to the chase, hard disk drives are in serious danger of ending up in short supply during the final month of the ongoing yea...

17 October 2011
09:34 GMT

Toshiba Creates 15,000 RPM 2.5-Inch 6 Gbps HDDs

Toshiba just announced its third generation of 2.5-inch 15,000 RPM enterprise hard disk drives, which are, apparently, the ones to reach the highest capacity yet, for such compact units at least. Indeed, Toshiba claims that its latest 2.5-inch hard drives with a rotary speed of 15K are not just its most capacious...

12 October 2011
02:43 GMT

Toshiba Debuts Thinnest 10.1-inch Honeycomb Tablet in Japan, Regza AT700

Toshiba has just announced the Regza AT700 Honeycomb tablet at the CEATEC 2011 in Japan, along with a 7-inch slate dubbed AT3S0.Touted world's thinnest 10.1-inch tablet, Regza AT700 is quite similar to the Toshiba T200, which was unveiled one month ago at IFA 2011 trade fair.In addition to Regza AT700 tablet, To...

4 October 2011
10:29 GMT

Toshiba X416, X400 and X200 Camileo Cameras Flash Forward

Toshiba appears determined to make an impression now, at the start of the fourth quarter of 2010, having unleashed more than one device, in this case three Camileo camcorders. Toshiba seems to have decided that just the splash caused by the Blu-ray DBR-M190 and its 5 TB HDD was not sufficient. Basically, the ...

4 October 2011
09:19 GMT

Toshiba Regza Blu-ray DBR-M190 Has 5 TB Storage

Blu-ray players have been developed before, but Toshiba definitely went beyond the confines of the blueprints when it built the Regza Blu-ray DBR-M190. In trying to keep ahead of solid state drives and maintain their spot on the mainstream, hard disk drives have been boosting platter capacities almost frantically. ...

4 October 2011
08:13 GMT

Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook Specs and Pricing Uncovered

We first laid our eyes on Toshiba's Portege Z830 during the company's introduction of the Ultrabook at the IFA 2011 fair, but few details about this laptop have been available until recently, when a French website has managed to dig out infos about the Z830's specs and pricing.While the details uncover...

29 September 2011
06:06 GMT

Toshiba Also Launches the P700 Series and NB505 Laptops

Toshiba did not hold back in its latest press releases, unveiling not just entry-level and basic entertainment laptops, but also an all-in-one system and, in this case, an even stronger laptop that contrasts with a compact, portable netbook. The beginning of October, 2011, will mark the arrival of a whole bunch o...

27 September 2011
10:25 GMT

Toshiba Announces C600 and L700 Series Laptops

Toshiba is definitely making a point of putting its prospective buyers on alert, announcing more than a few computers, in this case two laptop series, about a week before they actually start shipping. Users keeping track of the happenings on the IT market will probably already know about the new all-in-one PC tha...

27 September 2011
10:00 GMT

Toshiba Plans 23-Inch All-in-One for October 2

Toshiba is making good on its status as supplier of various PCs and consumer electronics by announcing a whole bunch of items, one of which is the DX735 all-in-one PC. The market for all-in-one computers is one that, though not overly extensive, is, nonetheless, a fairly healthy one. The fact that general pric...

27 September 2011
09:21 GMT

Toshiba Reveals New Canvio Portable HDDs

While the thrive is making rounds with a smaller price point, a certain other business outlet of Toshiba is seeing some updates, namely the hard disk drive lineup. Toshiba is one of those IT players that has a stake in a variety of segments instead of just one. The way it just launched some new HDDs while its ...

26 September 2011
09:36 GMT

Toshiba Thrive Tablet Sells Through Staples

Toshiba's Thrive may not have been the most punctual of tablets, but it is, nonetheless, one of the slates up for order online, with Staples now being found to have listed it for a lower price than before. The Thrive tablet is, like so many other slates out there, powered by the ARM-based Tegra 2 platform fr...

26 September 2011
08:37 GMT

Toshiba's Ultraslim AT200 Android Honeycomb Tablet Gets Listed

When it first announced the AT200 tablet at the IFA 2011 fair, Toshiba has refrained itself from providing any information regarding the price or the availability of its creation, but an Austrian retailer has recently listed the tablet on its Website giving us an idea about what the retail price may be.We had the cha...

22 September 2011
03:42 GMT

Toshiba Launches Voice-controlled Air Conditioners

Gone are the times when you had to look for the remote control and get lost in all those buttons just to have a decent temperature in your living room. You can now control your air conditioner by voice, thanks to Toshiba.The Japanese manufacturer has just released the first series of home air conditioners that can be...

16 September 2011
09:08 GMT


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