Tag: BATTERYRECALL

Sony was hit hard with the battery recall mess that has been going on over the past few months. Now its time for the laptop makers to fight back, on a brand note. PC manufacturers believe that their brand images were tarnished due to the mass recall of Sony PC batteries. Apple, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, and Toshiba have all recalled batteries in fear those consumers machines may overheat and ...

Seems like Apple just got hit by the Sony battery fiasco. Safety regulators just asked Apple to recall 1.8 million batteries from older laptops. Just a short while ago it was discovered that Sony batteries in Dell machines were a fire hazard, after a few actually caught fire. Dell's recall totaled 4 million. Sony has estimated that the cost of replacing all of the faulty units could hit close to ...