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Wi-Fi Alliance Releases New Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n Product Data

The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced new data summarizing trends from the first year of activity since its Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n testing program was launched. The following data points summarize trends among the more than 1,100 products that have achieved the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n designation since September 30, 2009 – when the certification tests and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo were updated to align with finalization of the IEEE 802.11n standard. Handsets shifting to next-generation Wi-Fi * 127 phones are now Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n, accounting for 20% of handsets certified in the last 12 months Essential technology for the digital home * 251 consumer electronics products achieved Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n designation in the ...

Posted on 3rd October 2010
Under: Toshiba, WiFi |

Toshiba’s new QosmioF55 features Garmin GPS technology

Toshiba's new QosmioF55 features Garmin GPS technology Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the new Qosmio® F55 laptop series, a 15.4-inch powerhouse that leverages both the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU and NVIDIA® GPUs with built-in GPS(1) to provide an unsurpassed performance in terms of multimedia, gaming and mobile convenience.Through the combined strength of Intel's next-generation processor technology and the NVIDIA GeForce® 9700M GTS graphics(2) card, the Qosmio F55 with GPS is amply built for performance and power. The NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS provides users with the ability to navigate through today's ...

Posted on 17th July 2008
Under: GPS, Multimedia, Toshiba |

NTTDoCoMo and Softbank battle heats up

NTTDoCoMo and Softbank battle heats up"NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, filed for an injunction to halt sale of a handset using No. 3 Softbank Corp's network, marking the latest move in a bitter fight for market share."

Posted on 17th March 2008
Under: Handset, Japan, NTT DoCoMo, Toshiba |

JiWire to deliver mobile ads at Boingo Wi-Fi airport sites

JiWire to deliver mobile ads at Boingo Wi-Fi airport sitesBoingo Wireless Inc., which provides access to the world's largest network of Wi-Fi hotspots, and JiWire, the leading provider of Ads for Access at premier Wi-Fi locations, today announced that Boingo has selected JiWire to sell and serve advertising on its Wi-Fi airport networks. Boingo users will see JiWire-supplied advertising throughout the Boingo Wi-Fi login process at 28 major U.S. and U.K. airports, including Atlanta-Hartsfield, JFK and LaGuardia in New York, Chicago's O'Hare and Heathrow in London."Mobile professionals and affluent technology enthusiasts represent an elusive demographic coveted by advertisers," said Dawn Callahan, ...

Posted on 22nd January 2008
Under: Microsoft, Nokia, Toshiba, WiFi, Wireless |

Toshiba and SanDisk Develop 8-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory Chip With 70 nm Process Technology

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced an 8-gigabit(1) (Gb) NAND flash memory chip fabricated with 70-nanometer (nm) process technology that ushers in the new era of gigabyte chips: 1-gigabyte(2) data storage capacity on a single chip. The new chip was today reported at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2005 in San Francisco.The new NAND flash memory utilizes multi-level cell (MLC) technology that allows two bits of data to be stored in one memory cell, doubling memory capacity. Innovative circuit design techniques were utilized to improve chip area efficiency resulting in an 8Gb chip size that is less than 5 percent larger than ...

Posted on 8th February 2005
Under: Memory, SanDisk, Technology, Toshiba |