IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba's Computer Systems Group announced the Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a portable server designed for small and medium-sized offices, mobile consultants, remote offices in larger organizations and home offices in need of mobile networking capability."Toshiba's Magnia SG20 is the first wireless mobility...
TOKYO and DENVER, United States—Toshiba, a leading vendor in Japan, announced that it is going to launch Toshiba-branded mobile handsets in the U.S. market in 2003.As a first step for exploring the U.S. market, Toshiba will increase its stake in Audiovox Communications from its...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp said it is planning to open a large-scale manufacturing base in China, although it is yet to unveil the schedule, products or the specific site.Several Japanese, European and American vendors have been pouring into China, which is perceived as the next big...
THE HAUGE, The Netherlands—KPN Mobile said it will begin offering mobile data services based on i-mode, the technology developed by its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo, on 18 April. The operator said it has reached agreements with more than 50 national and international content partners...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, two leading electronic manufacturers in Japan, partnered for third-generation (3G) handsets and will begin collaborating next month on the development of a new platform for multimedia-enabled, dual-mode mobile phones, both firms announced. Based on the agreement, both firms will jointly...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. launched what it describes as feature-rich CMX 2.1 multimedia software, which offers enhanced audio, animation, speech and sound effects for wireless devices.The company said handset makers Kyocera Corp. and Toshiba have incorporated the solutions into their devices, which will have "more...
TOKYO—Japanese mobile carriers are emphasizing location services to combat increasing competition within the market.The mobile-phone market in Japan has been expanding rapidly during the past several years. However, the market, which now has 72.8 million subscribers including PHS users, is becoming saturated, and harsher...
LINUXWORLD—Open source Development Lab has allied with industry leaders like Alcatel, Cisco, MontaVista Software, Nokia and Toshiba to create working groups to develop feature roadmaps for Linux in the enterprise markets."With the new working groups, it now provides a forum … to enhance Linux...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having suffered more than its rivals in 2001, Siemens is claiming that 2002 will see a change in the cell-phone business that will enable it to regain market share. Last year, the company slipped into fifth place in the worldwide cell-phone rankings,...
TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba, two leading Japanese consumer electronics and electrical appliances companies, announced that both firms will on 1 April set up a joint venture to develop and manufacture liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light emitting displays (OLEDs). Yasusuke Sumitomo, vice...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. says it has licensed the ARM926EJ-S core processor for wireless applications such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants.ARM, which provides embedded RISC microprocessor, said the technology runs diverse platform operating systems, such as Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE and Symbian OS.
Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...
DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems, Borland Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The move could put further...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. announced it is selling its Virginia-based chip manufacturing plant to Micron Technology, thus exiting the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing business.Toshiba expects the sale of Dominion Semiconductor to be completed by the end of January.
OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—An agreement made last year between Siemens and Toshiba to co-develop a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) handset has been "deferred." Siemens, which claimed the project had never been a joint venture anyway, said the two firms decided it was more important to...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. and Siemens AG have quashed a deal to jointly develop third-generation handsets.Analysts expect both companies may fish for new partners.
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite the sluggish European phone market, Toshiba announced it plans to market Taiwanese-made handsets in Europe to boost sales beyond Japan and the United States. The company, which also said it planned to build a cell-phone factory in China, confirmed that it...
BEIJING—Japan's Toshiba is setting up a CDMA handset joint venture in China, together with the Nanjing Postel Telecommunication Company and Hong Kong's Wong's International (Holdings). The venture is to be based in Nanjing and would start production next year. Nanjing Postel is one of...
TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch number-one handset supplier Nokia. In October, after much fanfare, Ericsson and Sony launched a...
TOKYO-Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display (LCD) and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other appliances.Both companies will develop, manufacture and sell the products with Toshiba owning 60 percent and Matsushita 40 percent. The...
TOKYO—Toshiba and KDDI will jointly launch a field test for communications between digital consumer electronics and mobile handsets next March. About 500 households in Tokyo and Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, will participate in the field test, which is designed to verify technology that collects...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. have announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants and other appliances.Both companies will develop, manufacture and sell the products with Toshiba owning 60 percent and Matshushita 40...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While downplaying speculation about a merger or joint venture with Motorola, executives within Siemens' mobile-phone division confirmed that it is looking at a number of alliance options as it attempts to respond to a worldwide slowdown in the mobile telecom equipment market....
TOKYO—Japanese chip maker Toshiba Corp. says it will roll out a mobile Internet phone in Europe next year.The phone is expected to be GPRS-enabled, according to the company.
