The fifth largest personal computer manufacturer of world – Toshiba has unveiled its new Artful series of notebooks for the Indian market. Toshiba’s new Artful series include four mainstream notebooks and two mini notebooks, priced in the range of Rs 22,990 – Rs 53,490.

The new Artful series of notebooks include NB200 Notebooks, Satellite M500, Portege M900, Satelitte L500, and Satellite L510. Sporting design features, such as chrome hinges and borders, textured surface and IMR patterns, the new Toshiba Artful have enough elements to attract buyers.

Toshiba, world’s fifth major personal computer manufacturer has announced the introduction of its 4 new Dynabook Qosmio-series notebooks christened G50, F50, GX and FX for the Japanese market.

According to sources, the Qosmio G50 and F50 are multimedia notebooks, whereas the Qosmio GX and FX are designed for gaming freaks.

With 570GB of hard drive space and SpursEngine Graphic card, the Qosmio G50 notbook comes loaded with 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card and dual-core 2.4GHz Intel CPU .

Toshiba Corporation is all set to end the mobile digital satellite broadcasting services by March 2009.
 
Toshiba has been providing the services for specialized mobile equipment through its subsidiary, Mobile Broadcasting Corp., since October 2004.

But, the paid services have not derived enough subscribers in part because of rising demand for free broadcasting services, which target mobile phones.
 
According to a company release, “The number of subscribers has not reached a sufficient level to sustain operations and, following a thorough review of operations, the company has decided to cease broadcasting.”

The laptop fever is on. These days, all the leading companies are busy with the launches of their exclusive and updated laptops. Recently Toshiba launched Centrino 2-based laptops - Satellite Pro S300, Tecra M10 and Tecra A10. All the laptops are equipped with Easyguard technology and a 1.3 megapixel webcam with business card reader software.

The main attraction for the customers would be Tecra M10 and Tecra A10 since both the laptops are targeted for the business customers, and are based on Centrino 2 vPro technology.

Toshiba unveiled its new Qosmio G55-Q802 laptop, featuring Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor, similar to the Cell Processors found on the Sony PlayStation 3.

The company referes to it as the first parallel media co-processor, which has four SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements) that work in accordance with the main CPU (an Intel Core 2 Duo P7350).

It features 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB, 4096 MB PC2-6400 DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, dual 250 GB 5400 rpm SATA drives, and Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics with 512 MB GDDR2 discrete graphics memory. It comes with Windows Vista operating system and 18.4 inch screen witha a true 1080p experience.

Chicago: The largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, Best Buy Co Inc, on Monday said that it would recommend consumers choose Sony Corp's Blu-ray high-definition video format rather than Toshiba Corp.'s HD DVD. The statement from the electronics retailer gives Sony yet another victory in its competition with Toshiba Corp's HD DVD.

Best Buy said that it would continue to carry an assortment of Toshiba Corp.'s HD DVD products for consumers who want to buy them, but it would "prominently showcase" Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.

Toshiba and Sony have been competing to set the standard for high-definition DVDs for several years, but now Sony appears to be winning the competition.

“The player of the future " works 1000 hours with one litre
of methyl spirit. The CEATEC 2007 exhibition which is taking place these days in Tokyo will be rich in surprises. Japanese company Toshiba has already surprised the public with its new developments. While we have already reported a few of them, today we will talk about a multimedia player working on fuel. The most innovative model of this manufacturer, probably, will become the prototype of a multimedia player Gigabeat which is fed not with traditional batteries, but with fuel elements made on the basis of methyl spirit (methanol).

The base for this technology is the new processor SpursEngine which processes the gestures which have been taken by camera.

On the eve of CEATEC 2007 which is taking place these days in Tokyo, Toshiba has shown number of new products, among which a pre-production sample of innovative DVD player model, whose basic feature is the possibility to operate it by moving one's hand and without touching buttons.