Sony issues battery recall

Yet another case of the few ruining it for the many. Due to “at least 40″ reports of laptop batteries overheating and causing fires as well as potential property damage, Sony is recalling 35,000 Lithium Ion batteries in the US and another 65,000 in other countries. In a stroke of genius, none of these batteries were actually put in Sony laptops. Instead, most of them (32,000) are in HP Pavilion dv model and Compaq laptops, and to a lesser extent Toshiba Satellite and Tecra laptops (3,000) and only 150 Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops. The batteries were made way back in October 2004 to June 2005.

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