Toshiba reports Q3 loss, revises down outlook
Toshiba expects to record its first loss in seven years this year as a result of the global economic problems and the strong yen, it said Thursday.
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Report: Toshiba to postpone flash-chip plant construction
Toshiba will delay by one year the construction of two chip plants in Japan as a result of the poor global economic conditions and continued low prices for flash memory chips, according to a Tuesday morning report by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
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Gartner tallies worst global PC shipment quarter since 2002
The worldwide PC industry endured its worst growth in six years in Q4, 2008, jumping only 1.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2007.
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New Wireless Standard Gets Big Name Backing
TransferJet wireless capability is getting closer to reality. The technology, which is being developed by major camera makers Sony, Olympus, Canon, Kodak, Nikon, is intended to make it easier for to transfer your images between devices wirelessly.
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Eade moves to Lenovo
Lenovo has snared the services of Callum Eade to replace its outgoing director of small business and consumer, David Nicol.
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Toshiba, Hitachi show gesture-controlled TVs
We're all used to hitting the power button to switch on our television but could a wave do it in the future? Both Hitachi and Toshiba are demonstrating motion sensing televisions at this week's Consumer Electronics Show and say they could be on the market in as soon as two years.
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Toshiba shows its first TransferJet prototypes
The first prototypes from Toshiba based on TransferJet, a short-range, high-speed wireless data transmission system intended as a replacement for cables, are on show at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Toshiba invokes SD cards to battle Blu-ray
A new service to dispense digital content, which involves using self-service kiosks to download movies and music to flash memory cards, was jointly announced by a group of companies including Toshiba on Thursday.
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October's coolest gadgets
October began, as it always does, with Japan's biggest electronics show: Ceatec. The show attracted a little over 196,000 visitors who got a chance to see the best of the Japanese electronics industry, including some exciting new prototypes of devices that are still some way from hitting the market.
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Toshiba to ship 256GB solid-state drives in October
Toshiba will ship a 256G-byte solid-state drive for laptops next month, likely beating rival Samsung Electronics to market in their race to offer high-capacity drives.
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Toshiba shows prototype fast-charging laptop battery
Toshiba showed off a prototype of its fast-charging SCiB battery designed for laptops on Tuesday, but said the technology is still a ways off from making its way into computers.
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Toshiba puts DMFC in a mobile phone
Toshiba has put a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) inside a mobile phone, but commercial availability of the technology isn't expected soon.
