Eight state attorneys general announced a $538 million settlement with electronics makers Tuesday over allegations of price-fixing in LCD panels.
One of the biggest obstacles to 3-D adoption in the home is the requirement for uncomfortable, eye-straining glasses.
Ceatec didn't officially start until Monday, but Toshiba was already getting the lion's share of the buzz here on the show floor, with its glasses-less 3D TV.
Toshiba has announced the voluntary recall of about 41,000 notebook computers worldwide at risk of overheating and burning users.
As a part of the 25th anniversary of Toshiba's laptop business, the company unveiled a dual-screen laptop concept named the Libretto W100.
Toshiba on Wednesday unveiled a "smart" TV the company claims will convert 2-D signals into high-resolution 3-D programming.
Two major electronics companies announced thousands of job cuts Friday as the global economic downturn ripples through the labor market.
After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD
Sony has always been a go-to brand for people who don't mind paying more for HDTVs, or just about anything else for that matter, and the company's least-expensive 2008 32-inch HDTV, the KDL-32M4000, exemplifies the trend.
With a lineup of perfectly serviceable, but not exactly standout, mainstream laptops, Toshiba's Satellite brand has long played second fiddle to the company's excellent Qosmio multimedia systems.
Samsung Electronics said Friday its profit rose 37 percent in the first quarter as strength in mobile phones and liquid crystal displays offset weakness in semiconductors
Sony seems set to win the format battle for the next generation of HD DVD players. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
The current flood of excellent gaming laptops (Dell's XPS M1730, HP/Voodoo's Envy, and Alienware's m9750) means that PC gamers have plenty of choices when it comes to picking a new mobile rig.
As the peripatetic CEO of Enspire Learning, a business training company, I depend on my laptop to stay productive and connected during business trips. So I was excited to test Toshiba's new Portégé R400 tablet PC, one of the first Vista-powered tablets to hit the market.
Working from home can be as or more productive than renting yourself out daily, but only if you have the right equipment.
Toshiba's Qosmio line is known for high-end home theater features and high prices, and like the flagship 17-inch Qosmio G45, the 15-inch Qosmio F45-AV412 offers a wealth of multimedia extras, from an HD DVD drive (although not the recordable HD DVD drive found in the G45) to a subwoofer to media control jog wheels.
Power producer NRG Energy Inc. is expected on Tuesday to submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years.
Exclusive release arrangements, plus aggressive price cuts for high-def DVD players, are designed to persuade consumers to finally choose between HD DVD or Blu-ray
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AS THE PERIPATETIC CEO OF ENSPIRE LEARNING, a business training company, I depend on my laptop to stay productive and connected during business trips. So I was excited to test Toshiba's new Portégé...
Toshiba's first Windows Vista laptop, the Portege R400, is a beautifully crafted convertible tablet that unfortunately is every bit as expensive as it looks.
Toshiba has recently dominated the field of desktop-replacement media machines with its Qosmio line, and the company's first Satellite P105 configuration, the Satellite P105-S921, performed in line with some of the better gaming laptops on the market.
In the labs of major computer makers, academic institutions and start-ups, researchers are searching for the next big thing in laptop batteries.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Prompted by the runaway success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, Microsoft finally got around to updating Internet Explorer, and its second beta release of Internet Explorer 7 is drawing reactions. Blogger Shel Holtz tried it out and found a lot to like, though he thinks some of the new security features will intimidate non-tech-savvy users. Informationweek, in its review of IE7, asked if Firefox had finally met its match.
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Smarthouse, an Australian trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However, blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if so, he writes, Microsoft would be pushing Vista back to 2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Robert Scoble checked into the story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows. Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista. One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream opera...
One of the most frustrating things about CDs and DVDs is that one bad scratch can render them worthless. Now a Denver startup called Scratch-Less Disc is marketing a version that can be clawed at, ...
Incoming Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer is immediately being thrust into a new role: peacemaker. For years a battle over the format of next-generation high-definition DVDs has been looming, and now ...
The electronics and entertainment industries are shaping up for the biggest format battle since the "video wars" between VHS and Betamax to decide the future of DVD.
A mobile phone is no longer just a phone -- it is also a music player, video camera and personal organizer.
When people think of UPS, they usually think of brown delivery trucks and guys in shorts dropping off packages. They do not think of laptop repairs. But that's exactly the business UPS has decided ...
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You might think that all technology moves in the same direction: smaller, faster, cheaper. But laptops have confounded this trend lately, managing to get bigger and smaller at the same time. You no...
Science-fiction fans may feel they already know about "holographic storage," having witnessed Princess Leia's desperate, recorded plea to Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Alas, that's not quite the use...
Now that the average portable DVD player costs less than $500--down from $1,000 three years ago--it has moved from the domain of the technophile to that of the ordinary consumer. These sleek little...
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>> Mini video player/recorder: PANASONIC SV-AV30-SD A/V $399.95 (including 64MB SD memory card) No question, Panasonic's minute A/V recorder is one slick gadget: a digital camera, voice recorder, c...
In Las Vegas. Headliners like Gates, Ellison, Chambers, and Whitman argued that despite the downturn, technology is by no means dead. It wasn't just lip-synching, either. New products and platforms...
Notebooks are great travel companions for everyone but gamers and music fanatics. Until now. Toshiba's new Satellite 2805-S402 changes the rules: It's a notebook that can replace a gung ho gamer's ...
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ZORAN Chips for a post-VCR world
If you like to hunt MiGs from the cockpit of an F-16 while you're actually flying over Cincinnati in a Boeing 737, you know how frustrating it is to play games on a laptop computer. Even if your po...
Does this sound familiar? You saw a movie in a theater and loved it, so now that it's out on video, you've invited friends over to see it in your living room. Everyone gets comfortable, you dim the...
Notebook computers remain technological objects of desire, and no wonder. You can put superb design and high-performance computing power in the palm of your hand, or carry it in your briefcase. The...
Get ready for fireworks. Five huge Japanese electronics companies--Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba--have decided to make the $47-billion-a-year U.S. personal computer business the target o...
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
It is fitting that the first man to place big bets on the digital convergence of electronics and entertainment should have been Akio Morita, a student of both physics and marketing. Well over a dec...
THE frequent flier in the seat next to me was a lawyer, chalk-striped and fit, diligently typing notes on a Compaq laptop computer that looked a year or two old. Every now and then his authoritativ...
Just as General Electric was Toshiba's most influential partner in the past, IBM is sure to play that role in the future. The two companies are working together on three costly and ambitious techno...
JUST about everybody in the global electronics industry agrees that this is the Decade of the Strategic Alliance, and for good reason. As telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, and me...
SCENES from a life on-line: It is 7 a.m. in New York City as a typical pajama- clad American columnist sits down to the personal computer in his study. Programmed to cater to its master's whims, th...
WHEN Jean Kovacs comes into the office each day, she dons a little headset and greets her computer with a brisk ''Good morning!'' In response, her Sun workstation lights up its screen. ''Start mail...
IN JAPAN, 1992 was the Year of the Monkey, and it turned out to be the year Japanese electronics makers found the monkey on their backs. Their production, which grew by almost 10% a year compounded...
Would-be exporters should not mistake Japan Inc.'s slowdown for a welcome mat -- or think that the country will open its doors to imports as a way to cut its soaring trade surplus. Besides, do you ...
HERE'S the good news: American business's campaign to improve quality is paying off so well that in many areas the Japanese no longer enjoy a clear lead. Now the bad news: While the quality gap nar...
Faced with a stagnant job scene, unemployed managers, career changers, and freshly minted college graduates are finding new ways to hunt for work. Big corporations still look good to many, who floo...
Okay, you've finally come to terms with the implausible fact that engineers can squeeze a million transistors onto a silicon chip the size of your thumbnail. But are you ready for really eensy mach...
THE ECONOMY STINKS, sales are drooping, and just when things can't get much worse, a rival cuts prices to steal market share. Your market share. The textbook says don't panic, just ride it out, mat...
When scandal strikes in Japan, an image flashes around the world of the humbled CEO or political leader bowing deeply and tendering his resignation. By implication, the disgraced person thus condem...
When pollsters quizzed 600 Soviets, Czechs, Poles, Yugoslavs, East Germans, and Hungarians to test their familiarity with Western products, only four -- three Poles and a Russian -- professed unfam...
WHAT PART of the world boasts the hottest market for personal computers? If you guessed the U.S. -- and admit it, most of you did -- you guessed wrong. The correct answer is Western Europe. That's ...
NOT MANY MANAGERS refer to themselves as bandits -- at least not publicly. At Motorola, though, the term is an accolade. How does Motorola outhustle the Japanese on quality and price? It ''borrows'...
PENCIL LOVERS, don't take a job at Toyota Motor Corp. The world's richest company -- with $13.7 billion in spare cash -- limits employees to one at a time. A sign over the towel dispenser in the re...
The hottest (and coolest) item in Japan is Toshiba's Weather Cube. This battery-powered desktop gizmo, about four inches square, projects clouds, rain, or a sun onto its screen to predict the weath...
You've just finished renegotiating a complicated international merger, and now you're on the way home to report to the management committee. You're sitting in the cabin of the corporate Gulfstream ...
SECURITY ANALYSTS and the trade press are proclaiming that the portable computer market is finally taking off. Yes, you have heard that before. But this time they may be right. Thanks to screens th...
If flakes of silicon are swirling about your head like snow during the final frenzy of holiday shopping, welcome to the blundering herd. Digital dilemmas! Electronic enigmas! Big-ticket blues! The ...
MATT ZACHOWSKI, 34, president of Nycom Associates, a New York public relations firm, joking about Oliver North's congressional testimony: ''If he's lying, he's lying very well, which would make him...
Just a year ago Joichi Aoi lost the battle to become president of Toshiba. Then the bombshell hit. The U.S. Senate voted to ban imports of Toshiba products to punish the company for a subsidiary's ...
The equipment, designed to make propellers that enable submarines to glide beneath the seas in silence, has sent thunder crashing through the Western alliance. The U.S. is furious with some of its ...
BRITAIN'S CLASS WAR may not be over, but the Japanese are winning some battles. From the played-out mining valleys of South Wales to the rusting shipyards of Tyneside, onetime militants are scrambl...

