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Toshiba Claims Floppy "bug" Unlikely, But Posts Patch
News Despite claiming it hasn't had a single complaint from nearly 15 million notebook users worldwide, Toshiba UK will post a fix for the floppy-disk problem that recently cost the company £1.28bn in settlement costs in a US court.
[November 2, 1999, 11:00]
Five Years Ago: Toshiba Mulls UK Release For World's Smallest PC
News Toshiba UK is expecting samples of its Libretto system later this month and will evaluate the unit with a view to possible release here. However, Murray McKerlie, product manager for notebooks at Toshiba, said that Japan and the UK are very...
[January 11, 2002, 6:01]
Gateway, Toshiba Return To Battery Hell
Blog Just as we thought all those battery scares were over, Gateway and Toshiba have found more problems. It was just eight months ago that Gateway recalled 35,000 batteries and Toshiba many thousand more, amid fears that users' notebooks might catch fire.
[June 20, 2007, 16:13]
Toshiba Goes Organic With New Displays
News Toshiba is applying its experience with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays. One of the world's major manufacturers of LCDs, Toshiba announced on Wednesday its...
[May 31, 2001, 9:02]
Toshiba Laptops Hit By Memory Problems
News Toshiba has warned of a serious problem affecting the memory modules in many of its laptop models. Toshiba insisted, though, that the possibility of any of these events occurring is "extremely low". It's not clear exactly which components are...
[November 1, 2004, 15:24]
Q&A: Toshiba's Seabrook On Desktop PCs
News Last week, on the eve of Toshiba's launch into desktop PCs, PCDN met up with Howard Seabrook, desktop business manager for the Japanese firm's PC division. Fundamentally, we came to the decision that it's almost impossible to make money retailing...
[June 3, 1997, 15:04]
Toshiba Delays Commercial Fuel Cell
News At a demonstration of its latest fuel cell prototype for portable devices in Japan on Friday, Toshiba said the cells would not be commercially available until 2005 -- a year later than previously thought.
[October 3, 2003, 13:40]
Toshiba Turbocharges Tiny Drive
News Toshiba has increased the capacity of its small hard drive for portable electronics devices. The 20GB and 40GB drives augment Toshiba's existing line of 1.8-inch drives, which are available in 5GB, 10GB, 15GB and 30GB sizes.
[November 5, 2003, 15:55]
Toshiba Goes Straight On Chip Design
News Toshiba has chosen the road less traveled for a new chip-design method. As a result, chip performance increases by at least 10 percent, according to Toshiba. We believe that the benefits of this new architecture are so great that within a few years...
[June 5, 2001, 9:05]
Toshiba TEC Halves The Lead Times On Its Orders Through Flow Automation
White Papers Known in Europe for its laptop microcomputers and as a manufacturer of sophisticated electronic components, the Japanese group Toshiba also enjoys an enviable position in office systems through its subsidiary, the Toshiba TEC group, which...
[February 8, 2008, 23:00]
Toshiba Recalls Batteries Due To Fire Risk
News Computer manufacturer Toshiba has apparently become the latest vendor to recall laptop batteries because of concerns they may overheat. According to reports on Friday morning, Toshiba is recalling 830,000 laptop batteries.
[September 29, 2006, 13:05]
Toshiba Recalls Sony Batteries Again
News Toshiba is recalling potentially dangerous notebook batteries for the third month in a row, due to concerns about potential overheating. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said 1,400 of the lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made...
[August 13, 2007, 9:07]
CeBIT 2000: Toshiba Shows Off Techno-toys
News Electronics giant Toshiba has gone gadget mental at this year's CeBIT technology show in Hannover, Germany, showing off a paraphernalia of toys for geeks including a laptop, a wearable MP3 player and even computing binoculars.
[February 25, 2000, 16:32]
Toshiba Spirits Pocket PC Into Genios
News Toshiba has released details of two PDAs based on Microsoft's Pocket PC platform. Defying recent bad news from handheld PC manufacturers such as Palm and Psion, Toshiba intends to launch its two new models within weeks.
[July 16, 2001, 15:20]
Photos: Toshiba Launches World's Lightest Laptop
News Toshiba has launched what it claims is the world's lightest notebook. Toshiba claims that SSDs are more resilient to shock and vibration, more power efficient, and have faster boot-up times than conventional hard drives.
[June 22, 2007, 10:27]
Toshiba Shows Practical Quantum Cryptography
News Toshiba Research Europe demonstrated last week what it claims is the world's first reliable automated quantum cryptography system and run it continuously for over a week. Although no price or launch date has been set yet, Toshiba is already in...
[December 13, 2004, 17:15]
Toshiba Laptops Tap Into Wireless Mix
News Toshiba wants to get a jump start in the market for notebooks that can work with more than one wireless network. But dual-band notebooks, which feature faster 802.11a, will become the next step in broadening the appeal of wireless to businesses and...
[November 18, 2002, 8:03]
Toshiba Dangles Double Carrot For SME Dealers
News Toshiba will target Compaq's SME dealers with a double incentive next week when it launches its first ever desktop PC range, called the Equium, and the world's smallest notebook PC called Libretto. Toshiba hopes to be a top three desktop PC vendor...
[May 30, 1997, 14:54]
Toshiba And Samsung Join 128Mb Flash Race
News The race to set the industry standard for flash memory heated-up yesterday when Toshiba and Samsung joined forces to support a 128Mb flash memory format based on Toshiba's SmartMedia brand. The joint initiative follows other industry collaborations...
[December 12, 1997, 14:39]
Toshiba To Hatch Easter Desktops
News Notebook PC king Toshiba is likely to hatch its entry to the UK desktop market around Easter next year. There is no fixed date but my bet is we'll be there early in the second quarter," said Murray McKerlie, Toshiba product marketing manager.
[December 5, 1996, 11:59]
