Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze (Sunday 04th of January 2009 10:00:01 AM)
UnknowingFool writes "As a followup to the Zune New Year's Eve meltdown, Microsoft has issued a
workaround for what some users have correctly guessed was a bug caused by a leap year. To
recover from the problem, let the Zune drain the batteries and restart ...
(more)Toshiba introducing SD-friendly players for flash card movies that no one buys (Saturday 03rd of January 2009 08:36:00 AM)
We hate to harsh on Toshiba here, we honestly do, but what in the world is it thinking? As if
its clearly unimpressive Super Resolution mechanize wisdom wasn't embarrassing enough, we're
now hearing that the outfit is heading to release a line of precedent ...
(more)Toshiba intros four new Portege machines, Tecra R10 (Thursday 09th of October 2008 02:21:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
The last Portg we saw flow from Toshiba's doors was a revamped
R500 in July, but now we know why we've been waiting so long for a true new member of the
family. Clearly, Tosh has been shoring 'em up, waiting ...
(more)Cell Chip Coming To the PC Via a PCI Express Card (Friday 03rd of October 2008 04:45:01 AM)
Arcticstoat writes with an excerpt from Custom PC: "After third world nation a brand new CPU
architecture from the ground-up, you'd expect that Toshiba, Sony and IBM would have more uses
for the Cell architecture than the xbox [tm] 3, and Toshiba has ...
(more)Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the DRM of the future? (Sunday 14th of September 2008 12:11:00 AM)
Filed under: Home Entertainment, easily carried Audio, compact Video
We've heard this about
this dream so many times before, DRM that will make digital media as easy to use and as
customer friendly as a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. ...
(more)Samsung courts SanDisk, promises mercy (Friday 05th of September 2008 10:42:00 AM)
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is reportedly looking into the acquisition of SanDisk Corp. A union of two Flash memory giants
sure to get the consideration Toshiba (SanDisk's partner-in-NAND) ...
(more)Toshiba's SD Multi Tool and SD Photo Editor are a nice, touchable surprise (Sunday 31st of August 2008 12:27:00 PM)
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Handhelds
Toshiba is charity up a nice respite from the inane
quantity of LCDs and, um, more LCDs at IFA this year. The SD Multi Tool and the SD Photo Editor
are two touchable handhelds, beneficence up some beefy lineaments ...
(more)Toshiba's new ZF LCDs include Cell-based Resolution+ upscaling (Thursday 28th of August 2008 12:33:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
As expected, Toshiba is benefaction a new
(supposed) world's first here at IFA: a true upscaling TV, finally getting rid of the middle
man for upconverting those SD sources. The new ZF Series LCDs include ...
(more)Eyes-on Toshiba's new XD-E500 upconverting DVD player (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 08:44:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Yes, Toshiba seems resigned to some sort of HD disc-free
existence, as it continues to mope about HD DVD's loss to Blu-ray and refrains from releasing a
player for the once rival format, but let's set all aside for ...
(more)Toshiba Portege M700 3G13B Laptop computer (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:05:32 AM)
The Toshiba Portege M700 3G13B has the latest in technology using touch screen fingertip
technology while on the go, and is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 Processor, runs on the
Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Business operating It's a long interview ...
(more)The Bill Day giveaway (part 1) - Toshiba Gigabeat T400 (Friday 27th of June 2008 05:51:00 PM)
Filed under: wieldy Audio, cartable Video
Hey, if Bill can give away tens of billions of
dollars, the least we can do to celebrate his last day is to give away some Microsoft-powered
gear, right? First up: the 4GB Toshiba Gigabeat T400, one of the very ...
(more)Toshiba Announces Young Investigators Award Finalists (Saturday 21st of June 2008 03:00:00 PM)
Postgraduate work its mission to improve the quality of patient care, Toshiba America Medical
Systems, Inc. has named the finalists of the second annual Young task force Award. Sponsored by
Toshiba through an allowable academic grant, the Young jury Award ...
(more)Toshiba remains stubborn, looks to DVD upscaling while brushing Blu-ray off (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 09:27:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
For the regardful in attendance, you likely noticed that
none of Toshiba's newly announced laptops (yes, even the absurdly potent Qosmio rigs) have
component Blu-ray drives. Like, there's not even an option. When ...
(more)Toshiba knows no shame, plans to release super-resolution DVD player (Friday 30th of May 2008 09:25:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Nothing too notable here -- just that Toshiba is
ostensibly fixing to unveil a brand new DVD player in the age of Blu-ray that will be "capable
of producing high-resolution images from regular DVDs." As you're laughingstock ...
(more)ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 lands in Toshiba Satellite P305, ASUS M50 laptops (Friday 18th of April 2008 07:59:00 PM)
Filed under: LaptopsAMD wasn't exactly all that express about exactly when its new ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 3000 series artwork chips would absolutely find their way into some laptops when it
announced them earlier this year, but it looks like they're now ...
(more)How would you change the outcome of the format war? (Friday 22nd of February 2008 11:30:00 PM)
Filed under: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Look, we're not out to whip the proverbial dead
horse, but after taking a long, critical look at how the format war played out from day one,
it's just too inviting to not take a step back and ponder how ...
(more)Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over (Tuesday 19th of February 2008 07:59:00 AM)
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'http://digg.com/hardware/It_s_official_HD_DVD_is_dead_the_format_war_over';
It's official.
Toshiba just made a explanation saying, " it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD
DVD players and recorders." ...
(more)Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player (Tuesday 19th of February 2008 05:04:00 PM)
Filed under: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment
digg_url =
'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Top_ten_things_to_do_with_your_now_defunct_HD_DVD_player'; Finally,
HD DVD users now have the experient attestation they've been looking for to prove that the
macrocosm ...
(more)Toshiba gearing up to drop HD DVD? (Friday 15th of February 2008 01:34:00 AM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
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'http://digg.com/tech_news/Toshiba_gearing_up_to_drop_HD_DVD'; We're not exactly sure what's
going on in Toshiba land, but shortly after not-exactly-believable whispers made the rounds of
the firm suddenly ...
(more)Toshiba updates Gigabeat lineup from obscure to niche (Thursday 07th of February 2008 10:42:00 AM)
Filed under: cartable Audio, transportable Video
There was a time not too long ago when
Microsoft and Toshiba seemed poised to make the Gigabeat a household name. That all changed
when Microsoft killed PMC and then blazed a manufacturing trail of its ...
(more)Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries (Friday 14th of December 2007 08:45:10 AM)
Ozgood writes in to let us know about Toshiba's announcement that it has developed a new type
of rechargeable battery dubbed the Super Charge ion Battery, or SCiB. Toshiba claims the new
battery will mainly target the industrial market, though they hint ...
(more)Warner to finally go Blu-ray-only at CES? (Friday 07th of December 2007 05:27:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentAnother day, another format war rumor. Business Week has a
lengthy writeup on the possibility of lone dual-format holdout Warner Brothers switching to
Blu-ray exclusively, and how it could affect the outcome of the ...
(more)Toshiba denies denying Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD rumor (Friday 26th of October 2007 01:34:00 AM)
Filed under: Gaming, HDTVOk, here's a strange one. Remember how yesterday, Toshiba supposedly
nixed the rumor of a Tosh-branded Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD? Well, get this: we were
contacted by Nelsom Bostock Communications, Toshiba's PR company (in ...
(more)Patent investigation could force hard drives off US market (Friday 12th of October 2007 01:15:00 AM)
Filed under: StorageThis one's still a ways off, but the International Trade Commission has
just launched a patent scrutiny into five manufacturers that could result in a ban on hard
drive imports if the agency finds symptom of infringement. The patents, ...
(more)Toshiba launches a fresh crop of Satellite laptops (Monday 01st of October 2007 04:01:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops
Toshiba, a company known to drop a wild assortment of products on the
market in rapid succession, has once again clogged the press-release pipeline with a slew of
new Satellite laptop configurations (on the P205, M205, A205, and U305) ...
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