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  Kindle Fire now accounts for more than half of U.S. Android tablets

  When people refer to "Android tablets" they may soon just be referring to the Amazon Kindle Fire.

  By Brad Reed | 27 April, 2012 08:47

  Tags: Android, Apple, ComScore, Configuration / maintenance, consumer electronics, Data Center, hardware systems, iPad, iSuppli, Kindle Fire, Motorola, networking, pc, smartphones, tablets, toshiba, wireless

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  Intel grabs record share of growing chip market

  As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 April, 2012 02:23

  Tags: Components, Gartner, hardware, hardware systems, Intel, IT industry, processors, qualcomm, Renesas Electronics, toshiba

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  Toshiba to buy IBM's retail Point-of-Sale business for US$850 million

  Toshiba said Tuesday it will purchase IBM's retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over the hardware business while IBM shifts its focus to back-end software solutions.

  By Jay Alabaster | 17 April, 2012 22:09

  Tags: business issues, industry verticals, mergers and acquisitions, NEC, retail, toshiba

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  Toshiba's jumbo tablet, the Excite 13, garners early kudos, scorn

  The tablet market is already populated with dozens of different sizes and models, and many close in size to the highly popular iPad, with its 9.7-in. screen.

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 April, 2012 05:58

  Tags: hardware systems, tablets, toshiba

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  Toshiba unveils 13.3-inch Android tablet

  Toshiba has introduced its new line of quad-core Android tablets, including a giant 13-inch model with a high-resolution display and quad-core processor. The company is also phasing out its 7- and 10-inch Thrive tablets, which will be replaced with the new Excite line of tablets running Android 4.0.

  By Daniel Ionescu | 11 April, 2012 01:58

  Tags: Android, consumer electronics, hardware systems, smartphones, tablet PC, tablets, toshiba

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  Toshiba's new Satellite laptops to use upcoming Intel, AMD chips

  Toshiba on Tuesday announced Satellite laptops starting at US$399 that will have upcoming processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, which are due to become available in the next few months.

  By Agam Shah | 11 April, 2012 03:02

  Tags: hardware systems, laptops, toshiba

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  Toshiba to sell video servers that use streaming hardware instead of CPU, memory

  Toshiba said Monday it has developed hardware for servers that encodes and sends video streams without using CPU or memory, greatly increasing the number of streams that can be broadcast from a single machine.

  By Jay Alabaster | 09 April, 2012 18:35

  Tags: Boards -- other, Components, Graphics boards, hardware systems, servers, toshiba

• Toshiba to launch camera SD cards with Wi-Fi file sharing in U.S. from summer

  Toshiba will launch its new line of Wi-Fi enabled SD memory cards in the U.S. from summer, a company executive said Thursday, in a challenge to established makers of such cards like Eye-Fi.

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 March, 2012 18:56

  Tags: consumer electronics, digital cameras, popular science, toshiba

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  iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 16

  Unseasonably warm weather, as so often happens, triggered rumor precipitation in the iOSsphere.

  By John Cox | 17 March, 2012 06:46

  Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, iPhone 5 rumor rollup, iphone5 rumors, iPhone 5 rumors, networking, rumor rollup, smartphones, toshiba, wireless

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  Toshiba to launch SD memory cards with 90MBs write speeds this year

  Toshiba will launch high-speed SD memory cards this year in Japan and abroad that can read data at up to 95MB per second and write at 90MB per second.

  By Jay Alabaster | 16 March, 2012 04:57

  Tags: Components, consumer electronics, memory, toshiba

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  Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead

  Monsoonal flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

  By Lucas Mearian | 01 March, 2012 12:32

  Tags: hitachi, IHS, iSuppli, IT industry, Seagate Technology, storage, Storage Hardware, toshiba, western digital

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  Microsoft shows Windows on ARM tablet designs

  BARCELONA -- Windows on ARM-based reference design touchscreen tablets made an appearance on stage today at Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview event at Mobile World Congress.

  By Matt Hamblen | 01 March, 2012 03:48

  Tags: hardware, hardware systems, Intel, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile OSes, nvidia, operating systems, qualcomm, software, texas instruments, toshiba, Windows

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  Toshiba claims 'world's thinnest' tablet with Excite LE

  Toshiba will start shipping its Excite LE tablet next week, which the company claims will be the thinnest tablet yet.

  By Agam Shah | 01 March, 2012 00:10

  Tags: Android tablets, hardware systems, tablets, toshiba

• Hands-on with Toshiba's AT270 tablet

  Toshiba isn't at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but we still caught a glimpse of one of the company's upcoming tablets.

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 29 February, 2012 11:52

  Tags: hardware systems, MWC, tablet PC, tablets, toshiba

• Nokia unveils 41-megapixel imaging sensor technology

  The most spectacular part of Nokia's presentation Sunday at Mobile World Congress was the unveiling of a new super imaging system, a sensor -- developed with Toshiba and other Nokia partners, coupled with Carl Zeiss optics -- that can capture 41 megapixels.

  By John Cox | 28 February, 2012 02:35

  Tags: consumer electronics, Mobile World Congress, MWC 2012, networking, Nokia, Nokia imaging, Nokia PureView, smartphones, symbian, Symbian phone, toshiba, wireless