Market analysis firm iSuppli has released its figures for LCD TV sales in the United States during the third quarter of 2009, finding that South Korea’s Samsung has retaken the top position in sales, accounting for 16.8 percent of the market. The results knock low-cost flatscreen maker Vizio down to the number-two position, with 15.7 percent of the market—but interestingly, Samsung and Vizio remain the only brands with market shares over 10 percent.
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Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures
Independent warranty provider SquareTrade has released a study of more than 30,000 notebooks tracked through its extended warranty plans—and the results are a little surprising. Computer makers Asus and Toshiba led the pack in terms of notebook system reliability, with fewer than 10 percent of their systems needing repair after two years, with three-year failure rate projections of about 15.6 and 15.7 percent (respectively). And who’s in last place? Top computer maker Hewlett-Packard, with more than 15 percent of its systems failing after two years, and a three-year projection forecasting over a quarter of them will fail in three years.
Toshiba “Space Chair” Commercial Promotes New LCD TV
Toshiba is one of the larger purveyors of technology gear like computers and TVs. The company has put together a new TV commercial that has to be one of the coolest and most innovative commercials ever seen to show off its REGZA SV LCD TV.
The commercial is called “Space Chair” and follows the journey of a single armchair that is tied to a balloon and lofted to the edge of space at 98,268 feet. The trek to the lofty altitude took 83 minutes and the fall back to Earth took the chair 24 minutes. The tag line is very ingenious — Armchair viewing redefined.
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Top Windows 7 Netbooks: A Review of the Best Windows 7 Netbooks
Why do people love netbooks? They’re ultraportable, inexpensive, fast and connected, and they’re just too darn adorable. Netbooks featuring Windows 7 operating systems have all of these qualities and more—like an improved user interface, faster start-up, and better graphics capabilities. Here’s our pocketbook-friendly picks for the best netbooks featuring Windows 7.
Acer Aspire One AOD250 Netbook
The AOD250 has a 10.1″ wide-screen LED-backlit LCD screen and a reasonably sized keyboard. This Acer Aspire does a dual-boot with Google’s Android 2.0 for a faster start-up. The prices start at $349 and go up from there depending on the specs.
Hynix Reports First Net Profit in 2 Years on Chips
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. recorded its first quarterly net profit in two years as prices for memory chips rose in a rapidly recovering market.
The company said in a regulatory filing it earned 246.28 billion won ($207.25 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30. It posted a net loss of 1.67 trillion won a year earlier. The profit ended seven straight quarters of losses.
Icheon, South Korea-based Hynix said third quarter sales rose 15 percent to 2.12 trillion won from 1.84 trillion won the year before.
Hynix attributed the results to a “faster than expected market recovery.” The company said average selling prices for DRAM, or dynamic random access memory chips, increased 26 percent from the previous quarter. Prices for NAND flash memory chips rose 4 percent.
Hynix is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of DRAM chips, used mostly in personal computers, and ranks No. 3 in NAND, used in digital devices such as cameras and music players.
“The memory market seems to have emerged from a long downturn,” Kim Min-chul, Hynix’s chief financial officer, told analysts on a conference call. “Seasonal demand for memory products was stronger than expected,” he said.
The highly cyclical memory chip industry has suffered due to chronic oversupply. German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG declared bankruptcy in January.
A rebound, however, has been gaining steam.
Toshiba’s Dynario Fuel Cell Charger Lights up Gadgets With Methanol
You might not hop in a car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and drive to work until decades from now, but you can charge up your gadgets based on a different type of fuel cell in just a few days. After a long line of prototypes, Toshiba has finally released the Dynario, its first methanol-powered gadget charger.
Fill the Dynario with methanol – the same stuff powering dragsters, monster trucks and Indy cars – and it reacts with ambient oxygen in the air to produce electricity. Enough electricity, according to Toshiba, to charge two typical mobile phones.
Toshiba Busts Out with Cell-powered Regza HDTV
On the eve of Japan’s CEATEC trade show, electronics giant Toshiba has formally unveiled the Regza 55X1 HDTV (Japanese), the company’s first television to be powered by the Cell processor—the same chip at the heart of the PlayStation 3. And while the 55X1 will not be offering support for PlayStation games—consumers will still need to buy a console for that—it does feature an integrated DVR, 3 TB of storage space, an innovated LED backlighting system, DLNA compatibility, and access to broadband content via the Internet.
Toshiba Satellite T100 Notebooks Slim Down with Windows 7
Computer and electronics maker Toshiba is looking to get a jump on the Windows 7 launch hoopla with its new Satellite T100 series of lightweight notebook computers. The systems port Intel’s ultra low-voltage (ULV) processors to offer up to 9 hours of battery life, offer multitouch trackpads and LED-backlit displays, plus pack themselves into cases less than one inch thick and starting off at barely over 3.5 pounds.
