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HONG KONG– Sony and Toshiba on Thursday reported losses for the last quarter, and Nintendo lowered its profit forecast, as the current earnings season revealed the extent of the erosion in corporate and consumer demand.
Sony warned last week that it expected a full-year operating loss of 260 billion yen, [...]

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HONG KONG — Stocks in Japan’s leading electronics companies fell sharply on Tuesday amid reports that the industry giants Sony and Toshiba would report operating losses in the current financial year, as plummeting demand and a strong yen took their toll on sales.
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What a week for laptops! We’ll start with the big news, which drew many a visitor to Crave: at a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Steve Jobs announced a number of updates to Apple’s MacBook line. Get a sense of the changes with our “new vs. old” analysis of the MacBook, MacBook [...]

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This week is a busy one for Toshiba; along with a trio of Porteges and a boatload of Satellites, the company also introduced two new Tecras. (Can a partridge in a pear tree be far behind?)

The 14.1-inch Tecra M10 and 15.4-inch Tecra A10 are a refresh of the company’s M9 and A9 [...]

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Before we’re awash in MacBook news later today, Toshiba would like to keep the focus on its Satellite laptops. The company introduced minor updates to the U405, M305, M305D, A305, A355, P305, L305, and L335 lines of Satellites. A refresh for the Satellite X205 is still in the works. The new models will feature [...]

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The Portege R600 is a 12-inch ultraportable laptop that weighs 2.4 pounds and measures less than an inch thick.
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Toshiba released the Portege R600 today, an amazingly thin and hopefully more durable version of the R500 ultraportable. We liked the R500 the twotimes we reviewed it, but we had the system for only a [...]

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Acer Aspire 6930, now with 4G wireless.
Baltimore residents looking to take advantage of Sprint’s brand-new Xohm WiMax data network can now choose among several laptops with built-in WiMax compatibility from such major manufacturers as Acer, Toshiba, and Lenovo.
On Wednesday, Acer announced that it would be bringing WiMax radios to two [...]

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We focus primarily on consumer laptops at CNET Reviews, but this week I looked at two well-designed models that target small businesses: the 13-inch Toshiba Satellite Pro U400 and the 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad SL400.
Each configuration clocks in at just north of нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,000, stripping out some enterprise features that a small-business [...]

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You know how some weeks you’re churning along–going to meetings, putting out fires, and somehow tending your regular workload as well–and suddenly you look up and it’s Friday afternoon? Yeah, that was this week at CNET Laptop HQ. So this digest will be in the form of a list, with witty commentary to return in [...]

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Toshiba's Atom-powered mini-notebook at Ceatec.
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CHIBA, Japan–Toshiba hopped onto the Netbook bandwagon here at Ceatec, announcing the NB110.
Design-wise, there’s nothing too remarkable about it. It resembles an Eee PC, with specs a mix between that and the HP Mini-Note: Intel Atom processor, Windows XP, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive, weighs [...]

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