Technologizer

Toshiba’s Qosmio Gets Blu-Ray

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Toshiba’s Qosmio is one of those laptops that’s pretty much an all-in-one desktop PC in disguise: With its 18.4-inch screen and beefy specs, it’s more transportable than portable–and with its emphasis on entertainment, it’s like a Windows Media Center you can fold up and move from room to room. The company announced the newest Qosmio model [...]

Toshiba Finally, Inevitably, Does Blu-Ray

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Sometimes it takes tech companies an amazingly long time to confront the inevitable. The whole war betwen Blu-Ray and HD-DVD was a rotten idea from the start (both formats were announced in 2002). But all parties involved in both camps insisted on wasting billions developing two competing HD formats. Then it took ages before HD-DVD [...]

Toshiba’s Mini NB205 Netbook: The Technologizer Review

Friday, July 31, 2009

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When Toshiba announced its first netbooks last month, it said that it had waited to start selling inexpensive little notebooks in the U.S. until it felt like it could do them justice. I’ve just spent time using the Mini NB205–which Toshiba likes to call a mini-notebook rather than a netbook–and found that it’s indeed one [...]

Toshiba (Finally) Does Netbooks

Monday, June 1, 2009

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Toshiba has been just about the only significant PC manufacturer who hasn’t jumped on the netbook bandwagon in the U.S. market. Until today, that is–the company is announcing the Mini NB205, its first small, low-cost laptop. (Toshiba prefers to call these mini notebooks, not netbooks; I don’t know if the resolution of the netbook trademark [...]

5Words for May 14th, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Wow, two USB drive items: Ars Technica reviews USB drives. A USB drive for backups. Switching to Gmail made easy. 512GB SSD notebook from Toshiba. Vodafone banishes international roaming charges. Destroying Microsoft Office: surprisingly difficult. AT&T bans (and emulates) SlingPlayer. More e-readers to choose from. Is Gmail having spam problems? Sony loses a billion bucks.

5Words for April 20th, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

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Wow, Oracle will own Java… Larry Ellison is buying Sun. Adobe puts Flash on TVs. The post-Windows era begins. TiVo to sell user data. YouTube’s new comment filtering system. Toshiba’s netbook starts at $600. iPhone refurbs: a good deal. Apple leads in customer experience. A review of iPhone Quickoffice. Microsoft gets $15 per netbook.

Mobile World Congress: Resolution Revolution

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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I didn’t mention Toshiba’s TG01 in my roundup of Mobile World Congress phone debuts, since Toshiba avoided the rush by announcing the phone a few days early. I got a little hands-on time at Toshiba’s booth today, and while it turned out the prototypes on hand weren’t really ready for prime time–touch input was achingly [...]

Toshiba Introducing 512GB Solid State Drive

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Solid state drives are finally moving into capacities that are useful for today’s modern applications. Toshiba said Thursday that it would be introducing a 512 gigabyte 2.5″ SSD at CES 2009 in January. The flagship SSD would be complemented by smaller capacity 64, 128, and 256GB drives available in the company, which would come in [...]

More Companies Jump on Google’s Android Bandwagon

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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The Open Handset Alliance–the organization responsible for Google’s Android open-source mobile operating system–has rallied more companies into its camp, significantly increasing the likelihood that there will be an influx of Android-based devices in the near future. C0nsumers will be the big winners: With Apple and RIM battling furiously, the added jolt that an influx of [...]

Canon’s Cool SED TVs: Finally Legal

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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I didn’t mention this in yesterday’s post about the Consumer Electronics Show, but another issue I have with the event–which, again, I like–is that it’s not the crystal-clear preview of what’s next for personal tech that you might assume it would be. After last year’s show, I wrote a piece about that odd fact for [...]