Toshiba to have new president

July 21st, 2009 Toshiba likely to embrace one-time rival Blu-rayTOKYO — After losing its battle to make the HD-DVD the successor to the DVD, Toshiba Corp. is considering making products in the winning format, Blu-ray.

May 8th, 2009 Japan's top chipmaker Toshiba posts record lossTOKYO — Japan's top chipmaker Toshiba Corp. tumbled to a record annual loss amid sinking global demand that has forced it to cut thousands of jobs.

June 2nd, 2009 Toshiba, World's fifth largest personal computer manufacturer is awarded 2 points out of 100 points by Greenpeace for their contribution to green house gas emission. The list is topped by IBM.

February 4th, 2009 Toshiba, out of nowhere, has produced a decent touchscreen mobile phone, TG01. The exciting part is, you can answer and disconnect the phone with just a shake of  hand.

May 26th, 2009 Operating System Platforms are becoming more and more important as it is the key factor for smooth flow of surfing the internet and stable performance. Windows Mobile  may be the operating system of the future meeting the criteria of ease of doing things without trimming down performance.

June 25th, 2009 Toytoa president says product lineup under reviewTOKYO — Toyota's new president says that the company's entire product lineup will be reviewed to better focus its offerings to each global region. Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of Toyota Motor Corp., says Thursday he will put customers and the rank-and-file first to steer the automaker out of its worst crisis since it was founded.

January 28th, 2009 TOKYO - Toshiba Corp Thursday projected that the company will record a 280 billion yen ($3.11 billion) in net and operating loss in fiscal 2008 as flash memory prices were slumping and global economic situation worsening. If that proves to be the case, the predicted loss will be the first since fiscal 2001.

June 2nd, 2009 Toshiba NB 205 line of Netbooks will be available in the US market soon with their standard netbook configuration and an interesting feature that can be very useful while you are somewhere like at an airport. The sleep-and-charge USB ports can charge your USB devices even when it is turned off making it a good makeshift backup battery for your travel gear.

February 6th, 2009 Toshiba is coming out with two new laptops Qosmio WXW/77GW and the Qosmio WXW/79GW. So, why choose it from the millions of others available in the market right now? Let us look briefly at the features that they are providing.

July 8th, 2009 TOKYO - Toshiba Corporation announced that Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture with JSW that will manufacture and market steam turbines and generators in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Tamil Nadu.

July 29th, 2009 Toshiba quarterly loss swells to $614 millionTOKYO — Toshiba's red ink swelled to 57.8 billion yen ($614 million) in the April-June quarter, hit by losses on asset sales and weakness at its consumer electronics and chipmaking businesses. The loss for the fiscal first quarter was five times bigger than a year earlier when the Japanese conglomerate, which makes everything from nuclear power plants to household electronics, recorded a 11.6 billion yen loss.

October 14th, 2008 Yet again Toshiba came out with two new laptops from their workshop which are anything but good looking. Toshiba S300 and Toshiba S300M, both targeted toward business users, come as a very standard and neat featured laptops with some resourceful key ingredients too that I will reveal in process.

June 10th, 2009 Toshiba is the world's fifth largest computer manufacturer but their product lines generally focus to Japan. However, a pair of their Satellite laptops have landed for sale in Europe Market, thankfully at last one.

July 3rd, 2009 Obama says he gets daily prayers on his BlackBerryWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry. Obama told reporters from religious news organizations on Thursday that White House faith director Joshua DuBois sends him a morning devotional every day to his e-mail device.

February 27th, 2009 TOKYO - Sony Corp's president is to resign in April as the company was forecasting a record loss in the current business year because of a surge in the yen's value and declining sales, it said Friday. The Japanese electronics giant announced that Ryoji Chubachi would step down and chairman Howard Stringer would serve in both posts as the firm seeks to achieve a recovery in its core electronics business.