Reuters - The Nikkei average rose 1.42 percent on Tuesday to end above 15,000 for the first time in more than a week as Tokyo Electron Ltd. (8035.T) and Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) climbed after strong quarterly results from U.S. chip firms boosted expectations of higher earnings at home.

Reuters - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) will begin mass-production of microSD memory cards, the world's smallest, in September, aiming to take market share amid strong demand for smaller cards, the Nihon Keizai business daily said on Friday.

Japan's Toshiba Corp. and the United States' SanDisk Corp. have joined forces to construct a memory chip plant in Japan. The memory chips will be used for digital music players and other devices. The new Flash Alliance Ltd., set up on July 7, is owned 50.1 percent by Tokyo-based Toshiba and the...

AP - Japan's Ricoh Co. said Thursday it will be ready to supply an optical component that reads both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs next year — a move that could diffuse the battle between rivals Toshiba and Sony over next-generation DVD formats.

AP - Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. have formed a joint venture to build a multibillion dollar factory for flash memory chips used in digital music players, cameras and a growing list of other electronic devices.

Toshiba Corp. on Thursday said that it is delaying the launch of world's first high definition optical disc recorder for about two weeks. The electronic outfit said the launch for recorder based on HD DVD format was postponed for it hasn't built up enough pre-launch inventory....

PC World - Company says it is having trouble getting some of the necessary components.

Reuters - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said on Thursday it is delaying the launch of the world's first high-definition optical disc recorder based on the HD DVD format until the end of the month as it hasn't built up enough pre-launch inventory.

AFP - Japan's Toshiba Corp has postponed the sales launch of its new high-definition DVD recorder by about two weeks because of production delays.

AP - Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will postpone the sale of the first recorder for HD DVD high-definition video discs because of a production delay.

NewsFactor - The Toshiba M105s3004 is a thin and light notebook PC with lots of storage capacity and memory. It has many of the features multimedia users depend on while traveling. But disappointing video performance and a persistent glare on the display might make you think twice before starting any heavy-duty computing tasks.

Japanese technology firm, Toshiba, will sell its next-generation HD-DVD players at a "major loss," in order to hopefully secure market share against Sony's Blu-Ray. A new report claims Toshiba is selling its players at $499, while a more realistic price for the device, factoring in its cost to...

AP - As an avid movie fan and a frugal consumer, I've always preferred the all-you-can-watch buffet approach to renting movies over paying a la carte.

Toshiba Corp. says on Tuesday it would still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing-and incompatible- products are likely to hit the market at first. Toshiba, a leading proponent of next-generation HD DVD optical disc technology, is in competition with...

Reuters - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said on Tuesday it would still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing -- and incompatible -- products are likely to hit the market at first.

Sony and Toshiba have been heating up competition for the latest DVDs. The first Blu-ray DVD discs have been released in the US ahead of the launch of the first Blu-ray player on June 25.

NewsFactor - Toshiba has unveiled the first HD DVD recorder that lets users capture high-definition video broadcasts on disc, play next-generation DVDs, and store tons of data on the built-in 1-terabyte hard drive (equivalent to 1,024 gigabytes).

AP - Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will start selling the world's first recorders for the HD DVD high-definition video disc next month.

Japanese electronics manufacturer, Toshiba Corp., announced on Thursday that it would launch its high definition optical disk recorder in July. The next-generation recorders would be in HD DVD format.

Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said on Thursday it would launch the next-generation, high-definition optical disk recorder based on the HD DVD format on July 14 in Japan.