Press day number two at the IFA consumer electronics show kicks off with more tablet news expected. This follows yesterday's big annoucement from Sony about the Tablet S and Tablet P.
Another week, another tablet price leak. This time it was Newegg who spilled the beans on Toshiba's ANT tablet for a while, before pulling the offer. Is this a new marketing technique or are the people running retailer web sites just inept? Also, Viewsonic is rolling out an update to the G Tablet, which is starting to see deep discounts.
In an effort to keep sensitive data from prying eye, Toshiba today announced a new family of hard disk drives for a number of devices, including PCs and printers, that automatically wipe themselves of data when connected to unauthorized hosts.
Prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory shot up by as much as 20% Monday as concerns over fabrications plant shutdowns, power outages and supply shortages mounted in the wake of last week's earthquake in Japan, according to DRAMeXchange.
Toshiba joined the likes of Samsung and Motorola and unveiled a 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Arriving sometime in the first half of 2011, Toshiba's unnamed tablet focuses on media capabilities, all pushed by an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor.
Toshiba has become the latest storage vendor to build Opal Security Subsystem Class (Opal SSC) specification into its self-encrypting drive (SED) for PCs and laptops, the MKxx61GSYD.
Overall, laptop reliability is improving gradually: 25.9 percent of respondents report experiencing at least one significant problem with their notebook, down from 30.9 percent last year and 31.8 percent two years ago.
Toshiba introduced its new blade-type SSD modules with capacities of up to 256GB and with a thickness one-third that of solid-state disk drives that typically come in a hard-drive form factor.
With Halloween fast approaching, October's deals are becoming frighteningly good. This week, look for great deals with Netgear, WD internal drives, an anniversary sale from HP and more!
Toshiba announced plans to release a new Google android-based tablet. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that they've decided to name the tablet the Folio 100. Isn't that pretty much the name of the ill-fated Palm netbook from three years ago?
Expecting sales of NAND flash memory to jump, Toshiba and SanDisk today announced they will jointly build a new NAND flash fabrication facility in Yokkaichi City, Japan.
Toshiba, the world's fifth-largest personal computer maker says it will launch slate devices later in 2010, including models that run either the Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android operating systems.
A Connecticut home electronics store has filed a class-action lawsuit against major manufacturers of optical disc drives, alleging that the companies raised and fixed prices for technology that's used in PCs and devices like Sony's PlayStation 3.
Hoping to set itself apart from other television makers, Toshiba will soon put on sale in Japan the first television based on the powerful Cell multimedia processor, the same chip that's used in the PlayStation 3. The Cell Regza TV boasts several advanced features including the ability to simultaneously record eight high-definition channels.
Toshiba, let me officially welcome you to the CULV party. Today, the company unveils its not-quite-netbooks T100 line. But get this, the baseline models (the T115) in this notebook series start selling at $449. That's right, this thing is about 50 bucks more than Toshiba's chart-busting netbook, the NB205-310.
The Toshiba mini NB205 is one of the better entries into the $400-and-under netbook market, offering a sharp display, comfortable keyboard and long battery life.
Toshiba's storage division announced its highest capacity 1.8-inch hard disk drive that can store up to 160GB of data and is positioned to show up in next-generation handheld devices.
Last week Toshiba launched in a new Qosmio multimedia laptop model in Japan that includes a secondary video processing chip and, for the first time, software to automatically clean-up the quality of Web video.