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• Kindle Fire now accounts for more than half of U.S. Android tablets

  When people refer to "Android tablets" they may soon just be referring to the Amazon Kindle Fire.

• Toshiba joins ANZ Recycling Platform under national e-waste recycling scheme

  Toshiba Australia has become the latest member of the Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP) — a not-for-profit, industry-run member body — under the national e-waste recycling scheme.

• Intel grabs record share of growing chip market

  As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date.

• Toshiba to buy IBM's retail Point-of-Sale business for US$850 million

  Toshiba said Tuesday it will purchase IBM's retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over the hardware business while IBM shifts its focus to back-end software solutions.

• Toshiba's jumbo tablet, the Excite 13, garners early kudos, scorn

  The tablet market is already populated with dozens of different sizes and models, and many close in size to the highly popular iPad, with its 9.7-in. screen.

• Toshiba unveils 13.3-inch Android tablet

  Toshiba has introduced its new line of quad-core Android tablets, including a giant 13-inch model with a high-resolution display and quad-core processor. The company is also phasing out its 7- and 10-inch Thrive tablets, which will be replaced with the new Excite line of tablets running Android 4.0.

• Toshiba's new Satellite laptops to use upcoming Intel, AMD chips

  Toshiba on Tuesday announced Satellite laptops starting at US$399 that will have upcoming processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, which are due to become available in the next few months.

• Toshiba to sell video servers that use streaming hardware instead of CPU, memory

  Toshiba said Monday it has developed hardware for servers that encodes and sends video streams without using CPU or memory, greatly increasing the number of streams that can be broadcast from a single machine.

• Toshiba to launch camera SD cards with Wi-Fi file sharing in U.S. from summer

  Toshiba will launch its new line of Wi-Fi enabled SD memory cards in the U.S. from summer, a company executive said Thursday, in a challenge to established makers of such cards like Eye-Fi.

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  iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 16

  Unseasonably warm weather, as so often happens, triggered rumor precipitation in the iOSsphere.

• Toshiba to launch SD memory cards with 90MBs write speeds this year

  Toshiba will launch high-speed SD memory cards this year in Japan and abroad that can read data at up to 95MB per second and write at 90MB per second.

• Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead

  Monsoonal flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

• Microsoft shows Windows on ARM tablet designs

  BARCELONA -- Windows on ARM-based reference design touchscreen tablets made an appearance on stage today at Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview event at Mobile World Congress.

• Toshiba claims 'world's thinnest' tablet with Excite LE

  Toshiba will start shipping its Excite LE tablet next week, which the company claims will be the thinnest tablet yet.

• Hands-on with Toshiba's AT270 tablet

  Toshiba isn't at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but we still caught a glimpse of one of the company's upcoming tablets.