TOKYO - JUNE 03: An employee of KDDI holds a new Toshiba mobile phone, the 'Sportio' model, which will be released by KDDI Corporation during a press preview at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo on June 3, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The mobile phone enables the monitoring of calories burned and distance walked with pedometer functionality built into the phone. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

TOKYO - JUNE 03: An employee of KDDI holds a new Toshiba mobile phone, the 'Sportio' model, which will be released by KDDI Corporation during a press preview at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo on June 3, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The mobile phone enables the monitoring of calories burned and distance walked with pedometer functionality built into the phone.

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  3. Toshiba's logo is seen on its laptop at an electronic shop in Tokyo July 29, 2010. Japanese chipmakers Toshiba, Renesas and Elpida's quarterly earnings blew past expectations on booming chip demand, but Toshiba retained its full-year forecast with a strong yen and the uncertain outlook in Europe weighing.
  4. People walk by a poster of a Toshiba Corp. product in Tokyo Thursday, July 29, 2010. Toshiba said Thursday it returned to the black in the April-June quarter thanks to a recovery in global demand for flash memory chips used in popular goods such as smartphones and digital cameras.
  5. Models display Japanese electronics giant Toshiba's 3D LCD television series 'Cell Regza' at a Tokyo hotel on July 28, 2010. The LCD television has the Cell high-performance processor to allow 2D movie contents convert to high quality 3D contents, Toshiba will put the 55 and 46-inch sized models on market in October.
  6. Toshiba's new family of 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch SATA drives are optimized for demanding performance, power consumption, and durability requirements across a wide range of high-performance and business-critical applications.
  7. In a file picture taken on June 30, 2010 visitors examine the latest technology of Japanese electronics giant Toshiba at the solar power exhibition in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo. Toshiba reported a net profit of 466 million yen for the company's first quarter financial result on July 29, 2010, reversing a net loss of 57.8 billion yen a year earlier.
  8. An employee of Japanese electronics company Toshiba displays their new CM1 touch screen tablet PC (R) for educational use that converts into the style of a conventional laptop (L) at the International Book Fair in Tokyo on July 9, 2010. Japanese government has set out a policy of providing digital textbooks for all elementary and junior high school students by 2015.
  9. Japan's telecommunication giant KDDI engineer Toshiki Endo displays the company's E05SH mobile phone in Tokyo on July 12, 2010. The handset is Radio-frequency identification (RFID) enabled.
  10. Japanese industrial designer Hironao tsuboi displays a stylish mobile phone of Japan's second largest mobile communication operator KDDI, flashing triangular patterned colorful LED lights 'Light POOL', designed by Japanese industrial designer Hironao Tsuboi in Tokyo on July 13, 2010. KDDI will put it on the market in this month as a part of the design conscious mobile phone project 'Iiida'.

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