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by Mike Zazaian October 24, 2006 - 2:08pm, No Comments

Executives at the Sony Corporation apologized for the brash of recalled batteries that have shaken the laptop industry over the past few months, but are still unwilling to shoulder full responsibility.

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by Mike Zazaian October 16, 2006 - 12:20pm, 1 Comment >>

Despite the fact that Sony has agreed to foot the bill for the costs of its ongoing li-on battery recalls, manufacturers such as Toshiba may seek additional damages for their trouble.

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by Mike Zazaian October 6, 2006 - 3:25pm, 2 Comments >>

Documents acquired under the freedom information act indicate that Dell knew of their battery issues almost a year before a recall was initiated.

As is clear from the documents, Dell reported several overheating incidents to the Consumer Product Safety Commission last October. Within a few months of the report Dell discovered the cause of the overheating, the same notorious metal particles that have caused short circuits in almost 8 million lithium-ion batteries.

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by Mike Zazaian October 4, 2006 - 11:18am, No Comments

In the wake of recalling more than 7.7 million laptop batteries from top notebook manufacturers, Sony is gearing up to launch a battery recall of its own.

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by Mike Zazaian October 2, 2006 - 5:23pm, No Comments

After initiating the largest PC-related recall in history with more than 7.7 million laptop batteries, Sony may continue the effort by recalling various consumer electronics sometime in October

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 10:26am, 2 Comments >>

After recalling 340,000 batteries due to short circuit concerns last week, Toshiba has recalled an additional 830,000 Sony Laptop Batteries that were used in various notebook models.

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by Mike Zazaian September 28, 2006 - 6:22pm, 1 Comment >>

Due to an investigation resulting from an exploding IBM Lenovo laptop battery at LAX, IBM has initiated a recall of over 520,000 Sony batteries used in ThinkPad notebooks.

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by Mike Zazaian September 24, 2006 - 1:28pm, No Comments

After a string of exploding Apple and Dell notebook batteries, Virgin Atlantic Airlines rushed to ban all Dell and Apple notebooks from use on flights. Luckily for Apple-and-Dell-owning jetsetters, Branson’s airline has eased restrictions.

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by Ben Piper September 21, 2006 - 11:38am, No Comments

A new model of rechargeable battery allows users to replenish battery life simply by plugging in to available computer USB ports.

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by Mike Zazaian September 19, 2006 - 12:22pm, 1 Comment >>

Toshiba has offered replacements to owners who bought one of 340,000 notebooks equipped with defective Sony batteries, but insists there’s no risk of explosion.

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