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• New wave of ultrabooks to include 30 touchscreen models, Intel says

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 14:08

  A fresh crop of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest "Ivy Bridge" Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, according to Intel.

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

  By Brad Reed | 27 April, 2012 08:47

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

• Next iPhone to be thinner, with in-cell display technology

  By Ashleigh Allsopp | 24 April, 2012 03:13

  The next generation iPhone will be thinner, using Japanese in-cell technology for its displays.

• Gartner: Worldwide semiconductor sales up $5.4 billion in 2011

  By Loek Essers | 18 April, 2012 01:00

  Worldwide semiconductor revenue increased 1.8 per cent in 2011 to $US306.8 billion, up $US5.4 billion compared to 2010, according to research published by Gartner on Tuesday.

• Intel grabs record share of growing chip market

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 April, 2012 02:23

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

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

  By Jay Alabaster | 17 April, 2012 22:09

  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.

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

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 April, 2012 05:58

  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.

• Toshiba's 13-incher: When is a tablet too big?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 11 April, 2012 07:57

  Tablet computers are meant to be held, at least most of the time. But at what point does a slate become too unwieldy to function as a handheld device? The new Toshiba Excite 13, with its gargantuan (by tablet standards) 13.3-inch display, may soon answer that question.

• Toshiba unveils 13.3-inch Android tablet

  By Daniel Ionescu | 11 April, 2012 01:58

  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.

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

  By Agam Shah | 11 April, 2012 03:02

  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.

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

  By Jay Alabaster | 09 April, 2012 18:35

  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.

• Toshiba Satellite P755D: Middle of the road, with Blu-ray and good sound

  By Mac McCarthy | 03 April, 2012 08:16

  The Toshiba Satellite P755D is a decent multimedia laptop, with a Blu-ray drive, Harman/Kardon stereo speakers, and a 15.6-inch widescreen high-def display. This "high-performance" model in Toshiba's "everyday value" Satellite line lists for $700 (as of April 2, 2012). Its quad-core AMD processor won't set any speed records, however.

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

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 March, 2012 18:56

  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.

• Intel tantalises consumers with Ultrabook Temptations (+ slideshow)

  By Hafizah Osman | 21 March, 2012 17:47

  Intel tantalises consumers with ‘Ultrabook Temptations’

• iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 16

  By John Cox | 17 March, 2012 06:46

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