laptop batteries in comment and analysis
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment From Electronics City, the 65km trip to the airport can take three hours, outstripping the charge on most laptop batteries. There were high hopes for Bangalore's multimillion dollar air hub, which opened in May. [30 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up Our hardy reporters had to cope with tourists, glare on their laptop screens, freak gusts of wind, the terrors of flat batteries and… spiders. Yes, that's right folks - the business and technology site you know and love has been delivering news... [11 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up And one of those irritating geezers who sell a squirt of aftershave or perfume, especially if they added printer paper and spare laptop batteries to their armoury of aftershaves and lollies. The Round-Up tries not to make a habit of getting caught... [20 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment US plane security turns on batteries OK, in my opinion, only a fool would let spare batteries of any size roll around loose in a bag with unknown ways of gradually discharging them - but the risk of anything other than finding the battery is... [10 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.01.07
Round-Up As opposed to 'explode in reality', for which you might need certain laptop batteries. Toshiba bringing out an Etch A Sketch and analysts claiming it has reinvented the laptop? Like a washed-up gambler eyeing his final chip on the roulette layout... [12 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.10.06
Round-Up Still on the subject of reader comments, we received a very 'interesting' one this week on the issue of Sony's (potentially) explosive laptop batteries and the massive battery recall. So you see Sony's woes aren't because a few batteries might... [27 Oct 2006]
Kevin Rollins
AS Profile It's not been an easy year for Dell with financial results falling short of expectations and the recall of 4.1 million laptop batteries over fears they can overheat and explode. Why? Ruling the PC roost [25 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up The folks at Dell and Toshiba must be laughing themselves silly at the plight of rival HP.or rather they would be if they weren't so busy dealing with the whole dodgy laptop batteries issue. The latest twist in this saga saw Virgin Atlantic this... [22 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment Yesterday, like lots of people, I heard the news that, after Dell and Apple, Toshiba is the latest laptop maker to warn customers about the dangers of Sony-made batteries in some of its products, though not on the scale of the former two recalls. [20 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Dell and Google - titans in trouble?
Comment Dell is having to recall batteries - just over four million of them - that power some of its notebook PCs. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could cause a risk of fire," the company said in an official... [15 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment Batteries and hard drives can be replaced at minimal cost but a failed port usually dictates a new and really expensive motherboard. In past years I have seen the failure of a power connector due to cracked solder brought on by the stress of... [01 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A Christmas wish list
Comment Here goes, in no particular order: How about some extra-small and very lightweight batteries for my laptop and mobile phone with 10 times the capacity of today so I don’t have to always be on the look out for power outlets. [17 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Ethernet power
Comment The progress in the capability of, for example, laptop computers has come from a combination of less power hungry electronics and more powerful batteries. But what sort of step forward should we expect? [04 Aug 2003]
Beyond Wi-Fi - the future of wireless networks
Comment Most of the devices that might want to use wireless tend to run on batteries, only Wi-Fi wasn’t designed with that in mind. In terms of getting through the battery life of a laptop, a Wi-Fi card burns it up faster than a barbeque party in a... [29 Apr 2003]
What will make or break Wi-Fi?
Comment Ironically, it’s better batteries rather than cunning chips which will provide the bulk of the added stamina in most of the first-generation Centrino systems - but there’s still a long way to go. A fuel cell, instead of storing power like current... [25 Mar 2003]
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