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RSS sony batterySony recalls own batteries - Toshiba to sue?
News Sony is recalling 90,000 of its Vaio laptop batteries across China and Japan following recent battery recalls from other laptop makers. The Sony battery recall is isolated within Japan and China but the analyst said he "can't believe it's not a... [17 Oct 2006]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News It claimed its Crusoe processors would be able to run the same software as Intel chips but gobble up less electricity, thus leading to longer battery life. Although the company landed early deals with Fujitsu and Sony when Crusoe arrived in 2000... [12 Oct 2006]
Sony set for mass battery recall of its own
News Sony is planning to announce a massive battery recall of its own, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Referring to Sony's official statement released on Thursday concerning a global replacement programme for laptop... [04 Oct 2006]
Lenovo joins the great laptop-battery recall
News Separately, Sony announced it will initiate its own recall programme involving battery packs using its battery cell technology. Details will be announced later in co-operation with the US Consumer Products Safety Commission but the programme will... [29 Sep 2006]
Virgin waives in-flight laptop battery use ban
News The airline said that if a battery is not on the recall list, the laptop can be used without restriction. If a battery comes from the affected batch as identified by Apple and Dell, it must be removed. [26 Sep 2006]
Lenovo laptop latest to go up in flames
News A burning laptop that frightened passengers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend was a ThinkPad, Lenovo confirmed on Wednesday, and that laptop ships with Sony's battery technology. Because the area of the computer containing the... [21 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment OK, the ad is strictly speaking for the new Tecra and Satellite Pro models, which have not been affected by the battery problems, rather than the affected run of Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops from the spring of this year. [20 Sep 2006]
Virgin bans in-flight use of Apple, Dell laptops
News Following the Korean Air ban, a Dell product manager told the Korea Times: "They could easily check out whether a laptop uses a Sony battery or other brand instead of banning them all. Other laptop manufacturers use Sony's battery cell technology... [18 Sep 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News The new video iPods have a 60 per cent brighter screen for watching movies and television shows and a higher-capacity battery, delivering up to six hours of video playback on the 80GB model. Although the new video iPods have a brighter screen... [13 Sep 2006]
Sony appoints product safety exec
News Following the massive battery recalls announced by Apple and Dell last week, Sony has handed a senior executive responsibility for ensuring product safety in the future. Sony's reputation has taken a battering in recent weeks, after its battery... [05 Sep 2006]
Holy smoke: Apple recalls 1.8 million batteries
News Because of a risk of fire, Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony's battery cell technology, which was also at the root of Dell's historic recall last week. Other laptop manufacturers use Sony's battery cell technology in their... [25 Aug 2006]
Dell Q2: AMD for PCs - and an SEC probe
News Similarly, the cost of replacing recently-identified dangerous battery units isn't likely to hit results, said Dell senior VP for Europe Paul Bell, with unit provider Sony likely to foot much of the bill. [18 Aug 2006]
Dell to recall 4.1 million laptop batteries
News If they have one of the affected units, consumers are advised to eject the battery from the notebook after powering down and continue using the notebook with its AC power adapter, the CPSC said. At the moment, this looks like the largest battery... [15 Aug 2006]
French road test cashless city
News He added the only problem he has experienced with the technology is the need to remember to keep the phone's battery charged. While NFC isn't new - Sony's FeliCa, a variant of NFC, is already big in Japan, where more than 100 million FeliCa chips... [20 Apr 2006]
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