SquareTrade: Asus and Toshiba makes most reliable laptops
If you are looking for a laptop brand, Asus or Toshiba might turn out to be the safest option.
SquareTrade provide third party laptop warranties and the company has released a report on their experiences.
The company claims that Asus and Toshiba laptops are the safest purchases [...]
Toshiba Artful range of notebooks launched in India
Japanese consumer electronics maker Toshiba has announced the launch of their Artful range of laptops in the Indian market.
The company has launched six new models under this range.
These new laptop models are available within the price range of Rs. 22,990 to Rs. 53,490 excluding taxes.
Toshiba is [...]
Toshiba posts record losses
Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba has posted a record annual loss as the company has been cutting jobs to stay competitive in these tough times.
The company posted a 343.6 billion yen loss for the financial year ending in March this year.
This is a pretty bad performance compared to a profit of [...]
Apple, Dell, HP sued by The PACid Group
The PACid Group has filed a lawsuit against 19 companies including Apple, Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Edimax, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell, Realtek, and Toshiba.
The lawsuit claims that these companies infringe upon their patented technologies.
The patent involved in this lawsuit is U.S. patent No. 5,963,646, “Secure deterministic [...]
Nikkei reporting a deal between Toshiba and Fujitsu
Japanese newspaper Nikkei is reporting that Toshiba and Fujitsu have entered into a deal.
The two companies have reached an agreement which would see Toshiba acquiring Fujitsu’s hard-disk drive business.
The deal is worth between $340 million to $450 million.
If this news is true, it would create [...]
Toshiba to close down Mobile Broadcasting Corp.
Japanese company Toshiba has announced that they are going to close down their subsidiary unit Mobile Broadcasting Corp.
This business unit currently has only 100,000 paid subscribers. They had originally aimed to have 1.5 million customers by this time when the services were launched.
Toshiba at that time became the first [...]
Toshiba suffers massive drop in profits due to exit from HD DVD business
Japanese tech company Toshiba has come out with their latest revenue report and the company has posted a huge drop in the net profits.
This is mostly due to the losses they had to suffer after they announced exit from the HD DVD business.
HD [...]
Greenpeace pleased with Toshiba and Samsung
Greenpeace has come out with their latest environmental ranking of consumer electronics companies and Toshiba and Samsung have topped the charts.
This chart ranks the companies based on their recycling policies and the toxic content of their products.
Toshiba managed to climb six places on the chart from previous report to tie [...]
Toshiba and Sharp to work together to manufacture LCDs
Toshiba and Sharp are rival companies in the Japanese market but they are now joining hands to become a dominating force in the LCD market.
The two companies are scheduled to release more details about their collaboration in the near future.
The Japanese companies face intense competition from companies [...]
IBM and Toshiba to work on next generation chip technology
Toshiba has announced that they are now joining a group headed by IBM to develop system chips using 32-nanometre circuitry.
The group includes other big names including Advanced Micro Devices, Samsung Electronics, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Infineon Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor.
Incidentally, Toshiba is also separately working with NEC [...]
