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Toshiba TG01
Reviews The slim and sleek TG01's hardware design breaks new ground, while the 4.1in. screen is great for media-rich activities. Unfortunately the user interface is eccentric, and battery life is very disappointing.
Tags: Battery, Screen, MicroSD, microSD Card, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Touch Screen, Accelerometer, phone, Microsoft Windows, light-emitting diode
Toshiba Portégé R600-101
Reviews The Portégé R600 is a very alluring 1.11kg ultraportable, although the transflective screen mode, some aspects of build quality and battery life could all be better.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Toshiba Portege, Graphics, Wireless, Notebook, Portégé R600, Windows Experience Index, optical drive, processor
Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-10H
Reviews The Satellite Pro U400 has a number of strong points, but the battery life, in particular, is disappointing. It could be a good choice if you need a compact notebook that'll spend most of its time on the desktop. But mobile professionals needing a long-lived system away from mains power may want to look elsewhere.
Tags: Battery, Satellite, Graphics, USB, Toshiba Satellite, Notebook, Satellite Pro U400, Toshiba Satellite Pro U400, Back Edge, performance
Toshiba Tecra M10-10I
Reviews So long as you don't intend to carry this rather bulky notebook too often, its high-quality screen and excellent keyboard, plus a solid set of internal components, should make it a serviceable workhorse.
Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Intel Corp., Security, Graphics, USB, Notebook, Mouse, Touchpad, Display, Fn
Toshiba Portégé M750-10K
Reviews The Portégé M750 is a solidly built convertible Tablet PC. We like the dual-mode (stylus/finger) touch-screen and a number of other design elements. However, it's cumbersome to use in tablet mode, while graphics performance and battery life are disappointing.
Tags: Battery, Screen, Toshiba Portege, Tablet, Tablet PC, Graphics, Notebook, Touch Screen, M750, Portégé M750
Lenovo sticks with face recognition tool
News PC maker will not recall affected laptops despite claims its Veriface is among face recognition technologies that can be bypassed, but improvements are on way.
Tags: Biometrics, Security Management, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Security, Facial Recognition, Face Recognition Technology, Tool, Spokesperson, Singapore
Your face is easy to fake, says security company
News During a demonstration, the Vietnamese company shows that face recognition-based authentication in laptops may not be an effective security measure.
Tags: Biometrics, PC security, Authentication, Security, Vietnam, Vulnerability, Password, face recognition, Computer, ASUS
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Toshiba laptops with OpenSolaris 2008.11 will be available in the United States from 2009, but availability elsewhere has not yet been announced.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Notebooks and tablets, Web Browser, File System, operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, Laptop Computer, high-performance
Snip, snip, snip: Sony cuts supply chain costs
News Sony's new executive deputy president Yutaka Nakagawa, has the task of drastically overhauling its supply chain for digital cameras, game consoles and LCD TVs.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Leadership, TV, Cell, Supplier, Electronics, Backup, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation 3, supply chain
Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?
News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?
Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea
Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business
News Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.
Tags: Green IT, Notebooks and tablets, Consumer Technology, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Sharp Corp., rechargeable battery, natural gas, systems integration
Toshiba brings out business-card-size solid-state drives
News New solid-state drives, which feature capacities of up to 62GB, are designed for notebooks and Netbooks.
Tags: Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Notebook, consortium, Hardware, hardware maker, Dell Computer Corp., manufacturer, Toshiba Corp.
Toshiba to launch its first touch-screen tablet
News The JournE Touch has 7-inch screen and is meant as a third device for consumers, for accessing the Internet or sharing content to other devices around the home.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, ARM, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Tablet, Touch Screen, Internet, Microsoft Windows CE, Toshiba Corp., Notebooks and tablets
Toshiba to join Blu-ray club
News Its rival format long since gone, Toshiba will move on with a new range of DVD players, HDTVs and laptops that support multiple storage devices.
Tags: Home entertainment, Storage, Blu-ray, Video, Storage, HDTV, DVD, HD-DVD, Sony PlayStation 3, DVD player
Toshiba to launch first 64GB SDXC card
News Manufacturer says the memory card will be the largest and fastest yet in the SDXC format.
Tags: Storage, SanDisk Corp., SD card, Storage, Card, Panasonic, memory card, Toshiba Corp., CompactFlash, Sony Corp.
