Toshiba Mobile Display Co is expected to reach a basic agreement with AU Optronics as early as Wednesday to sell its Singaporean production subsidiary AFPD Pte for an estimated 10 billion yen ($108 million)– whose monthly output capacity of 45,000 panels accounts for about 30 percent of Toshiba Mobile’s overall capacity, the Nikkei said.

The firm had already closed two money-losing plants in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, and decided to sell old production facilities to a Chinese company, the Nikkei said.

The selling of the Singapore unit will leave the Toshiba group with two LCD plants that manufacture only small and midsize panels: one in Kawakita, Ishikawa Prefecture, and the other in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, the Nikkei said.

Toshiba Mobile is bracing for an operating loss of 28 billion yen in the year ending Wednesday, with sales declining an estimated 18 percent to 210 billion yen, the daily added.

The sale of the plant in Singapore is in line with Toshiba’s efforts to restructure money-losing operations and concentrate resources in its semiconductor and nuclear power businesses, the daily said.

The purchase will help AU Optronics bolster output of small and midsize LCD panels.
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Toshiba recently launched two new hard drives that the company says have the largest amount of storage in their class.

The first is a 9.5 millimeter-thick, two-platter hard drive model MK7559GSXP with the maximum capacity of 750GB. The company says the model can fit into any laptop computer. The second drive, the MKxx59GSM, is a three-platter model with a 12.5-millimeter thick platform that holds 1 TB of memory.

The second model, however, can only fit in later editions of laptops that are designed to hold 2.5-inch hard drives.

The new drive uses next-generation storage capabilities with advanced sector format technologies and also has “silent seek” technology to make the models run quieter. The models also comes with technology that make the hard drive more efficient.

“This technology uses 4K byte-per-sector formatting and improved error-correcting code functions, hence providing maximum data integrity and making efficient use of the storage surface area,” writes CNET tech reviewer Dong Ngo. “Traditional hard drives use the legacy 512 byte-per-sector configuration, which leave gaps between sectors and therefore waste the storage space.”

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The Japanese government has selected four consortiums led by companies such as Toshiba Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi, for construction related works along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project in India.

The Japanese daily ‘Asahi Shimbun’ has reported that the Japan’s industry ministry has chosen four consortiums for Japan-India joint projects to build eco-friendly cities along the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor in northwest India.

The four groups will each be led by Toshiba Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Hitachi Ltd and JGC Corp.

India and Japan have partnered for the ambitious Rs 3.6 lakh crore DMIC project which seeks to create integrated investment regions and industrial areas across six states. The collaboration include the development of eco cities along the corridor and setting up of a project development fund.

The report said that the groups would start preparations in April for landing contracts to build infrastructure such as solar energy and water treatment systems.

“Besides the four major firms and two cities, 13 Japanese businesses including NEC Corp and Mitsubishi Corp and a Singaporean water business, Hyflux Ltd, make up the groups,” the daily added.

Quoting Japanese industry minister Masayuki Naoshima, the daily said, “These cases are the precursors of systems exports that will be a key pillar of our growth strategy”.

The projects are part of a USD 90-billion Indian government initiative to build a 1,500-kilometre industrial corridor linking Delhi and Mumbai by arterial freight railway, the daily noted.

Going by the report, the four consortiums were selected from among ten applicants on the basis of technological capability and profitability of proposals.

After field studies starting in April, the groups would carry out feasibility studies, which are expected to take between one and two years.

Asahi Shimbun noted that the Hitachi-led group would build a solar power plant in Dahej, north of Mumbai. The Toshiba-led group would build an energy supply network combining electricity and gas in Manesar, in northern India.

“In Shendra, east of Mumbai, the consortium led by JGC Corp will build a next-generation electricity distribution network utilising its storage battery technology… The fourth group, led by Mitsubishi Heavy, will build a system to generate electricity using natural gas near Changodar, north of Dahej,” the daily added.

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Dell has denied an Indian government release that chief executive officer Michael Dell discussed shifting procurement from China to a “safer environment” with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“There was no discussion concerning any change in how or from where Dell will source component parts for the computers it manufactures in Asia,” Minari Shah, a Dell spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

Dell sources “equipment and parts worth $25 billion from China,” Mr Singh told members of Planning Commission on March 23, according to an emailed text of his speech released by Press Information Bureau (PIB) that evening.

“They would like to shift to safer environment with a climate conducive to enterprise with security of legal system,” Mr Singh told the plan panel. “So I think this is an area where there are immense opportunities,” he said in the speech.

The PIB website, where releases of Mr Singh’s official speeches are posted, no longer has a copy of the remarks. The text was removed after officials from the Round Rock, a Texas-based company, contacted the Indian press office, Dell’s Shah said.

Harish Khare, a media adviser to Mr Singh, declined to comment. Mr Dell met Mr Singh the day after Google started routing China-based users to an unfiltered search service on its Hong Kong site, following through on a January 12 statement to end self-censorship of its Google.cn portal. Dell declined comment on March 23 when asked about Google’s decision.

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World number three PC maker Dell expects revenues in China, its second largest market, to near $5 billion this year, chief executive Michael Dell said after launching a services business in the country.

Speaking to an audience of suppliers, Dell said the company would spend $25 billion this year in deals with Chinese suppliers and partners, from $23 billion in 2008 and $29 billion last year.

The comments come a day after Dell launched several new server and storage products aimed at cost-conscious companies, in an attempt to boost its market share.

Dell, which supplies roughly 60 percent of the servers used by China’s Internet companies, is also interested in accessing the healthcare and education sectors, where information technology could greatly improve productivity, said Dell.

Dell’s China sales jumped 81 percent in the last quarter, fueled by a number of government incentives aimed at stimulating consumption, especially in smaller cities.
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HP has announced plans to partner with Polycom to deliver voice and visual communication systems which the pair claim will simplify communications and speed up collaboration.

HP will offer Polycom’s integrated voice and video offerings on Avaya and Microsoft unified communications (UC) systems as part of its UC and collaboration (UC&C) offerings.

AdvertisementThe move comes after Cisco dropped HP as one of its distributor partners, and pits the former allies against each other in the growing UC arena.

HP has also launched new services that it said will help firms simplify and integrate business communications at lower costs.

A new Strategic Architecture Service will help speed up delivery while reducing risk and technology redundancies, according to HP, and a Business Benefits Workshop will help firms identify the business case for UC&C technologies and ensure they deliver on expected benefits.

HP has also introduced a Network Equipment Technologies (NET) service that integrates the NET VX Series UC gateway into the HP and Microsoft UC&C systems to simplify management, and streamline messaging, video and voice communications, the firm said.

Mark Golden, vice president of network services at HP, claimed that the new offerings will help clients work more efficiently to maximise investment returns and meet technology and business objectives.

HP will work with product safety testing and certification firm Underwriters Laboratories on a two-year project to standardise processes and technologies.

HP claimed that by using Underwriters Laboratories’ Virtual Workplace system connected through the HP UC&C infrastructure firms could communicate with clients irrespective of medium or device.
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