Acer conquers w-european PC market, sales grow overall
Saturday, November 15th, 2008PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 17.2 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an increase of 24.3 per cent from the same period in 2007. Nearly all countries across the region posting strong increases as mini-notebooks boosted overall growth. As a result, Acer moved to the top position in Western Europe, ahead of [...]
Toshiba expands 1.8 inch HDD for mobile PCs
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), provider of small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), continues to deliver series of SATA 1.8-inch HDDs. The new 5,400 RPM HDDs come in single-platter 80GB and dual-platter 160GB models, delivering market-leading capacity, high-performance and durability in compact packages for space-efficient mobile PC systems.
HD DVD price tag: a cool $1 billion
Saturday, March 15th, 2008While people are crying over a couple a hundred dollars spent on HD DVD players, Toshiba seems to have lost 986 million dollars, according to a source quoted by various news agencies, news websites and blogs. Now that’s a bet! I really wonder how much money Sony spent to WIN this format war…
Toshiba joins Modu game
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Toshiba shows an unusual mobile phone for Japanese network operator Softbank, inspired by the Transformers movie. The 3G phone is a conventional model in normal use - but has arms and legs which can be poised to turn the phone into a “robot”. It even comes with built-in wallpaper backgrounds to simulate robot faces, says [...]
Toshiba official: ok, ok, we’re giving up
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008The first Tochiba official announcement related to HD DVD comes today. Japan’s Toshiba finnaly gives up its HD DVD format after losing the support of key movie studios and retailers.
Blu Ray finnaly wins (for good)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Just after Wal-Mart dropped support for HD DVD in favour of Blu Ray, Toshiba says it will give up it’s own technology and adopt the one public wants. Blu Ray it’s a little bit better than HD DVD and had a wider support from the beggining.
Toshiba G450: mobile phone, modem, MP3
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008It’s an all-in-one device: the G450 brings is a mobile phone, a mobile modem, MP3 player and cool design. Toshiba packed in 3G and HSDPA, flash memory, USB connector and everything you need. It’s complettely plug-and-play. The screen is small, OLED.
Hewlett-Packard tops Dell in Q4
Thursday, January 17th, 2008IDC says worldwide PC shipments grew by 15.5% in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07), EMEA tops growth with 20% increase and other markets also performed well too - United States 8.8% , also stong results in Japan and Latin America. On an annual basis, total shipments reached 269.0 million units in 2007 with growth [...]
Toshiba, IBM devloping 32nm chip
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007While Intel just launched the 45 nm chips, Toshiba said it would join International Business Machines to develop system chips using 32-nanometre circuitry. The alliance also comprises Advanced Micro Devices, Samsung Electronics and others.
