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25 unusual facts about Toshiba


47th All Japan Rugby Football Championship

Toshiba and Sanyo Wild Knights bypass the first two rounds into the semi-finals this year.

ABA Games

After leaving university, Cho contemplated professional games development but ultimately instead joined Toshiba to work in multimedia research and development.

After leaving university, he pursued a career with Toshiba in multimedia research and development while continuing to develop games in his spare time.

AMD v. Intel

Some of the manufacturers involved in the case were Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi.

Bluetooth stack

Toshiba has created its own Bluetooth stack for use on Microsoft Windows.

Female foeticide in India

In 2001, the Supreme Court in India gave orders to five multi-national companies — Philips, Siemens, Toshiba, Larsen and Toubro and Wipro GE — to give them the names and addresses of all the clinics and persons in India to whom they have sold ultrasound machines in the last five years to enable the state government to find out if these machines were registered.

Galena, Alaska

In 2004, the Galena City Council tentatively accepted a proposal from Toshiba Corporation to build the Galena Nuclear Power Plant, a small, self-contained nuclear power plant.

HumancentiPad

Meanwhile, Cartman embarrasses his mother, Liane, at Best Buy, exposing his buttocks in front of the customers and loudly accusing her of "fucking" him after she offers to buy him the cheaper Toshiba HandiBook.

JP Aerospace

Since then, JP Aerospace has worked with a number of clients interested in launching cameras into the upper atmosphere via balloons, including The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Toshiba (for their 2009 television commercial Space Chair).

Kent School

In 1995, Kent partnered with Microsoft, Toshiba and 29 other pioneer schools creating the Anytime Anywhere Learning program.

Luna Maya

She has also appeared in Indonesian advertising campaigns for Lux, XL and Toshiba.

Mike Fung-A-Wing

After his sporting career ended in the early 2000s, Fung-A-Wing currently works for Toshiba Business Solutions, and as a chairman club's member for Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

Mitsubishi Colt

It does however point to the usage of quick-charge batteries such as those developed by Toshiba.

Permanent employment

Large-scale layoffs remain legally restricted and socially taboo in Japan; many large companies such as Sony, Panasonic, NEC and Toshiba deal with excess labor capacity by offering voluntary retirement programs and by sending unnecessary workers to "chasing-out rooms" where they are held with minimal work responsibilities until they decide to resign.

Rara.com

On 11 October 2013 rara announced a partnership with Toshiba to pre-load the rara music streaming app on Toshiba Windows 8 PC's, tablets and convertible devices across Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Recovery disc

Most recovery systems use specialized software, though Toshiba and Dell licensed Norton Ghost technology for their recovery systems at one point.

Satoshi Dezaki

After graduating from high school, Dezaki took a position at Toshiba while studying in the department of literature at Hosei University.

Scott Gardenhour

Since opening their doors eleven years ago, Scott has guided successful campaigns for the likes of Audi, Nike, AT&T and Toshiba, including the Emmy Award-winning commercial, 'Required Reading', for Hallmark that originated as a spec spot, concepted and created by The Institute.

The Golden Cups

The band also soon won a regular place on the NHK-TV morning show, Young 720, and a recording deal with the Capital label owned by Toshiba.

The Mops

The group then signed with Liberty/Toshiba/EMI, moving to a blues rock sound, and followed with the hits "Gekko Kamen (Moonlight Mask)" and "Goiken Muyo (No Excuse)", both of which charted in 1971.

The Power Inside

The Power Inside is a 2013 social film developed by Intel and Toshiba.

Toshiba

The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk.

Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal

Several countries of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations had illegally exported to the Soviet Union machine tools that could be used in combination with the Kongsberg numerical control (NC) devices made in Norway in violation of the CoCom agreement during the Cold War.

Tsurumi Line

A shuttle bus for Toshiba employees at runs in a loop between Asano, Shin-Shibaura, and Umi-Shibaura stations on a schedule alternating with Tsurumi Line trains.

Visegrád Group

The high technology and IT sectors are also growing with the help of investors like Google, Toshiba, Dell, GE, LG and Sharp.


Aozora Records

Established May 3, 2000 to handle the independent release of Hitomi Yaida's debut maxi CD Howling to the Kansai area of Japan, it was the recipient of a bidding war amongst the larger Recording Companies for distribution rights which was won by Toshiba-EMI.

Blur Studio

On the commercial front, Blur is currently spearheading two large campaigns for Toshiba's new products and playful Goldfish Crackers for Pepperidge Farm.

Cavan Huang

He works with clients such as; Canadian International Autoshow; CNN; General Electric, Rogers Sportsnet; Time Warner; and Toshiba.

David A. Bader

In November 2006, Bader was selected by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, to direct the first Center of Competence for the Cell Processor.

Electronics industry in Japan

Japanese companies have been responsible for a number of important innovations, including having pioneered the transistor radio and the Walkman (Sony), the first mass-produced laptops (Toshiba), the VHS recorder (JVC), and solar cells and LCD screens (Sharp).

Japan Robot Association

Members include Japanese robot manufacturers like Denso, FANUC, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic Corporation, Sony, Toshiba, Yamaha Motor Company, Yaskawa Electric Corporation.

John Daugman

He held the Johann Bernoulli Chair of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the Toshiba Endowed Chair at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.

Media Key Block

The system was developed by big companies from the film industry and the electronics industry including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software provides technology to a number of companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more.

Price fixing cases

The European Commission has handed out a massive €750 million in fines to Siemens, Alstrom, Areva, Schneider and Japanese firms Fuji, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Japan AE Systems.

Rockbox

Beginning in 2007, ports became available for a large number of additional ARM based targets, including players from Sandisk, Toshiba, Olympus and Philips in addition to newer Apple and iRiver players based on a variety of ARM7, ARM9 and ARM11 series processors.

Social film

In July 2011, Intel and Toshiba partnered together to create Hollywood's first Social Film experience, a thriller called Inside, directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Emmy Rossum.

SonicStage

As of October 2008, 16 au phones (manufactured by Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications, Kyocera, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba) support LISMO's ATRAC service.

SPB Software

SPB Software works with phone makers and mobile operators such as Huawei, HTC, Toshiba, (now Fujitsu), ZTE, Starhub, O2, K-Touch, Megafon, Acer Inc., HP, Nokia, MTS, Swisscom in various countries providing customized versions of its software and optimized applications and for particular devices.

T-Engine Forum

B-level members who are involved in development of product using T-Engine specification and T-Kernel includes companies like ARM, Freescale, MIPS Technologies, Mitsubishi, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony Corporation, Toshiba and Xilinx.

The Power Inside

It’s Intel and Toshiba’s third social film after The Beauty Inside (2012) and Inside (2011).

TMEIC Corporation

In 2003, Toshiba and Mitsubihi-Electric formed (TMEIC) in Japan and "GE Toshiba" became TMEIC GE in the US.

TMEIC Corporation has evolved in the past decade from a joint venture between GE and Toshiba into a wholly owned subsidiary of TMEIC.

Westinghouse Electric Company

Controlled by the Toshiba Group, Westinghouse's world headquarters is located in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.