Toshiba

This week Toshiba introduced its Thrive tablet that comes with a spacious 10.1-inch touch-screen display and version 3.1 of the Google Android (Honeycomb) operating system. Besides, the device features a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, and 1GB of RAM.

A tablet that is aimed to compete Apple and Samsung in the market comes with 1280x800 screen resolution, a rear-facing 5.0 mega-pixel camera, a front-facing 2.0 mega-pixel camera for video chat, SWYPE input, USB and HDMI ports, integrated GPS, memory expansion via microSD. Moreover, the tablet will support Adobe Flash.

According to some speculation in Japan's Macotakara site Apple’s revised MacBook Air will be equipped with very fast and very small new flash memory chips from Toshiba. The story in the Japanese website reports that Apple is set to use flash built on a 19nm process and transferring data at 400Mbit/s using the Toggle DDR2.0 interface.

As of today only Toshiba manufactures 19nm NAND, the smallest process in the world, with a 64Gbit, 2-bit multi-level cell (MLC) chip announced in April. This chip uses the Toggle DDR2.0 interface.

Sony Corp wants to buy back its microchip production line from Toshiba Corp for an estimated 50 billion yen ($598 million) in a move to increase its output of chips for cameras and mobile phones, an industry source said on Thursday.

The facility was sold to Toshiba back in 2008 for 90 billion yen as part of Sony’s "asset light" strategy.

The deal of repurchasing its assets is aimed to help Sony boost its output capacity of image sensors used in digital cameras and cellphones, the source close to the deal reported.

Fall is the time digs are leaving for colleges and universities. 

So the need to replace desktop for some 15in notebook arises.

Toshiba announced this week it plans to sell modified models of Intel Classmate convertible laptops in Japan starting August.

It should be reminded that Classmate laptops were developed and designed by Intel as a PC for educational purposes and is offered to PC makers as a reference design. Such approach allows manufacturers to save costs as much of the design and development has already been done by Intel so the vendors only need to turn it into a product.

On Monday Toshiba announced a dual-screened mini notebook which can be used by customers as an ebook thus rivaling such popular devices as Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle.

Using a software keyboard customer can turn the device into conventional PC, and turning it 90 degrees customer can use the device an ebook reader.

The company plans to roll out the device for the sale in Japan in late August and some time later in Europe, the United States and other markets.

Toshiba plans to mass produce 128GB embedded NAND flash memory modules by the end of the current year.

As supposed by the MaximumPC magazine the 128 gigabytes storage capacity could become standard on everything from high-end smartphones to tablet PCs, digital cameras, and everywhere else you find embedded flash chips.

To date it is the highest capacity achieved in the industry, part of which is the result of Toshiba's 32nm manufacturing technology.

As it became known Monday, Toshiba plans to put a 3D-capable Blu-ray Disc laptop, branded Dynabook TX/98MBL , on sale in a move to become the first PC maker. 

The company's Dynabook TX/98MBL, based around a 3D system from graphics-chip maker NVidia, is expected to conquer Japanese market the next month.

Toshiba has introduced its new line of laptops. This week the company unveiled the C650, L650 and L670, and they're essentially the consumer models upgraded with Windows 7 Pro.

According to the reports, the L650 and L670 have, respectively, 15.6in and 17.3in 1366 x 768 displays. The machines are equipped with AMD ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 1GB graphics chips and Intel CPUs represented in a choice of 2.13GHz Core i3-330M or 2.26GHz Core i5-430M.

Small and inexpensive "netbooks" were some of the most popular computers in the recession, wooing consumers with their portability and prices that were often below $400. Now with the economy improving, consumers are introduced with new styles of computers, including some costing a bit more.

People traveling across East Asia will soon be offered a service to use their mobile phones for quick, easy and cheap translation help. Toshiba reports it has developed a new application that features voice recognition and immediate translation.

 According to a new study published by SquareTrade, a company that provides after sale warranties, Apple was ranked fourth in reliability of its laptops. The survey examined 30,000 portable computers of nine notebook makers. The company reported that Apple took the No. 4 spot, behind Asus, Toshiba and Sony, which held No. 1 through No. 3, respectively.

A Scottish company Picsel Technologies, has brought an action against the creature of Steve Jobs Apple Inc. for illegal use of their smooth zooming and scrolling technologies on Apple’s iPhone. According to the suer Apple have illegally implemented their technologies to speed up various screen transitions including zooming and scrolling. Such technology is already used by such known companies as Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Palm, HP, Motorola, and Nokia which have hade a special agreement with Picsel.