In spite of the fact that a California jury has found Japanese electronics biggie Toshiba guilty of conniving with vendors for fixing of prices of LCD display, it appears quite likely that the company will be able to dodge the $87 million damages-related penalty because of the earlier settlements by the other defendants in the LCD price-fixing case.

After deliberations for nearly two days, a 10-member San Francisco jury said in its Tuesday verdict that it had found Japanese electronics maker Toshiba guilty of LCD price-fixing.

Pictures of a Toshiba tablet have come up on the internet. Notebookitalia, the firm responsible for the release of pics of the yet to be released Android-based media tablet PC by Toshiba, confirms the launching details of the tablet which has not yet been stated by the official site.

Toshiba and SanDisk have pronounced their plan to come up with an advanced NAND flash memory chip factory in Japan, in a mode to gain a strong foothold in market for the chips.

According to the agreement laid SanDisk will offer the "pay for part of the production equipment at the factory," which in turn will be overall run by Toshiba.

The recently proclaimed Libretto W100 dual screen tablet computer from Toshiba will come at a price tag of $1100 or nearly £870 once value added tax is added to the price.

It is the 25th anniversary that marks the debut of Japanese maker's first tablet and comes in six different versions of virtual keyboards, all of them with haptic response, to all sorts of scenarios.

Users can continue with their work for a longer 5 hours due to presence of an 8-cell battery.

The dear price of Toshiba Libretto W100 dual screen tablet costing nearly £900, led the industry watchers ponder over the fact whether it is a reasonable offering or not.

It comes as an advice for the Japanese manufacturer to offer a cut-down version of the W100.

A product, that has close resemblance with AC100, Toshiba's innovative Android-based Tegra-powered laptop.

Two Japanese firms, Toshiba and Fujitsu have informed that they will merge their mobile phone businesses. Both of them are the leading players in the Japanese market but Sharp still holds the market leader position.

According to the market experts, this merging is in order to break the legacy of the domestic market leader Sharp. It is having a market share of 26.2% in the Japanese market.