–Responding to Global Demand Growth for High-Efficiency Motors–
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it will meet growing demand for high efficiency motors in the global market by establishing a new manufacturing and sales base in Vietnam. The new company, Toshiba Industrial Products Asia Co., Ltd. will be located in Vietnam’s Dong Nai province, and [...]

– Company to Cut Total Production by Some 30% —
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced an adjustment to production of NAND flash memory at its Yokkaichi Operations plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The adjustment will cut production by approximately 30%, effective from January 2009.
Recession in the global economy and the slowdown in consumer spending [...]

Toshiba Corporation has been inducted into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the prestigious honor roll that recognizes outstanding achievements in software development. Toshiba was elected for its Electric Power Generation Plant Monitoring and Control Systems, a family of products that delivers time-tested, reliable operation of [...]

– Company Plans to Enhance Presence and Elevator Business in China and Southeast Asia —
Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corporation (TELC) today announced that it has reached a basic agreement with Hong Kong-based Chevalier International Holdings Limited (CIHL) on further promoting and expanding the elevator and escalator business in the global market, with a [...]

dynadock U delivers a true hot-desk experience to any laptop with a USB 2.0 connection
Toshiba Corp. has selected DisplayLink Corp.’s USB graphics technology to drive the simple to connect Toshiba dynadock™ U Universal USB Docking Station.
Available in the U.S. in early December, the dynadock U allows people to connect any Toshiba or non-Toshiba [...]

Brings Critical Core Competency In-House
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation announced today that via its newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary, Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, Ltd. (TMVS), it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Advanced Visualization Imaging System Division (AVIS) of Barco nv, Edinburgh, Scotland. This acquisition brings in-house critical core competencies — the development [...]

Core Facts
· Toshiba debuts world’s first “timesculpture” commercial, an evolution of the “bullet time” technique made famous by The Matrix
· Groundbreaking £3million ad campaign manipulates “moving snapshots of time” using more than 200 Toshiba Gigashot camcorders
· Soundtrack [...]

Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company’s JW-10 Japanese Language Word Processor has been certificated under the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) Milestone Program. The decision acknowledges the immense impact of Toshiba’s development of the JW-10: not only was it Japan’s first word processor, it was a breakthrough that brought the [...]

Toshiba Corporation announced today that a Toshiba-Westinghouse consortium has been awarded a ten-year contract worth over 100 million euros by Electricité de France (EDF), France’s electric power company, for the renewal of stator coils in the generators of more than ten nuclear power plants now operating in France. The contract was given to the Toshiba-Westinghouse [...]

Toshiba’s National Presence Strengthened by CDC’s Newest Office
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced that Collins Distributing Company (CDC) of Memphis, Tenn. is now an authorized national distributor of Toshiba copiers, facsimiles and multifunction printing products (MFPs). For nearly 40 years, CDC has served dealers nationwide and has been an authorized Toshiba distributor [...]