Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple’s efforts are getting more attention, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to plug away at the connected TV market. Yahoo says that Toshiba will now distribute its TV widgets—which let people interact with internet content, like photos from Flickr or news from the NYT, while watching…

Toshiba makes portable memory cards and NCR makes kiosks, so it stands to reason that the two would love to see the tenuous idea of content kiosks take off… Hence the pair have invested a total of $35 million in MOD Systems, which makes a content management platform for such…

Toshiba made official today what essentially has been reality since Warner Bros. announced just before CES that it was opting for Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Blu-Ray over the HD-DVD format. NYT: Toshiba CEO Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at a news conference at Toshiba’s headquarters in Tokyo: “The sudden change by Warner…

The reports were right on: Toshiba is quitting the HD DVD business, leaving Blu-ray as the last format standing. The recent history is well known, as Blu-ray has racked up an impressive string of wins, both from studios and electronics retailers, leaving HD DVD with little room to maneuver. Toshiba…

With various reports all but confirming the end of the high-def format wars, HD DVD backer Toshiba is getting rewarded for giving up. Shares of Toshiba are up over 5 percent in Japanese trading following the news, and analysts have weighed in with positive comments on the stock, according to…

Toshiba is about to give up on its HD DVD format after a string of major setbacks, reports Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) and WSJ, citing sources. Thus ends the grueling battle dating back several years on the HD DVD vs Blu-Ray formats for the next generation DVDs. Reuters quotes local agency…

See update below: This would be a big blow for HD DVD, if true: THR reports, citing unidentified industry sources, that Toshiba may soon pull the plug on HD DVD, in response to the wave of companies that have gone Blu-Ray only. Of course, Toshiba is the primary CE backer…

Now, Toshiba is fighting back—a week after the death-bed stories, if not obits, in response, first, to Warner Bros.‘s embrace of Blu-Ray from Sony (NYSE: SNE) and then to Universal’s decision not to date HD DVD exclusively. The consumer electronics company, which has placed a large bet on HD DVD…