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1. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... by the products of Intel's main competitor, AMD." The EU says that Intel rebates to Dell from December 2002 to December 2005 were conditioned on Dell purchasing exclusively Intel CPUs. For example, in ...

2. 35,000 Sony notebook batteries recalled

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 31 October 2008

   ... than 10 million notebooks globally. The 35,000 batteries in this latest recall were used in notebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell in systems that were sold between November 2004 and June 2006. ...

3. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 04 September 2008

   ... and affected every major notebook manufacturer worldwide – including Dell, which recalled 4.2 million computers, 526,000 Lenovo systems 340,000 Toshiba laptops, 287,000 Fujitsu notebooks, 90,000 Sony Vaio ...

4. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 23 October 2006

   ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

5. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 October 2006

   ... laptops will reach 9.6 million, which is a a significant increase from the last official number of around 8 million. An exploded Dell: The beginning of the Sony battery recall disaster... Sony also updated ...

6. Sony recalls own laptop batteries

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 October 2006

   ... of computer manufacturers affected by a massive recall of Sony brand laptop batteries. An exploded Dell: The beginning of the Sony battery recall disaster... In total, 90,000 Sony Vaio notebooks are said ...

7. Fujitsu adds to Sony battery recall count

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 04 October 2006

   ... is just a blip on the radar. Other, larger scale companies have had to recall millions. Dell remains the hardest hit from the massive battery recall, accounting for more than half of the 7.5 million affected ...

8. Dell recalls another 100,000 notebook batteries

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 29 September 2006

   Dell today announced that they have updated the number of battery packs in their notebook computers that were affected by the recall of Sony batteries. According to Dell, the number has been increased ...

9. Lenovo, IBM recall 526,000 Thinkpad batteries

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 28 September 2006

   ... at the Los Angeles LAX International Airport. The latest recall brings the tally to more than 6.4 million Sony batteries that are being recalled due to a fire hazard. Dude, your Dell just exploded... Another ...

10. Notebook makers meet to discuss new battery standards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 September 2006

    Amidst a flurry of notebook battery recalls, several notebook makers including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo have met in San Jose to discuss possible new battery standards. Sony, the battery manufacturer ...

11. Toshiba recalls 340,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 19 September 2006

    ... notebook batteries within the past five weeks. Following 4.1 million Dell notebooks and 1.8 million Apple computers, Toshiba today said that it is recalling 340,000 notebooks worldwide and 100,000 in the ...

12. Recalled notebook batteries to cost Sony up to $267 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 September 2006

    The recent global recall of Sony batteries that has been reported to affect nearly 6 million owners of Dell and Apple notebook computers, will cost Sony as much as $267 million, according to a Sony China ...

13. Sony's battery troubles could turn into windfall for Korean firms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 August 2006

    Sony's battery recalls could help boost sales Korean battery makers. Following the recalls of Apple and Dell notebooks batteries, Korean newspapers are betting that their hometown favorites such as Samsung ...

14. Gateway "believes" its notebook batteries are safe

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 24 August 2006

    Gateway, the nation's third largest PC manufacturer, today said that it "believes" that its notebook batteries are not affected by problems that prompted Dell and Apple to recall a total of almost six ...

15. Sony-manufactured laptop battery recall impacts Apple Ibook, PowerBook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 24 August 2006

    ... believed to have been sold in the US. Cupertino (CA) - It turns out Dell was not the only notebook computer manufacturer to whom certain Sony-made lithium ion batteries were supplied. This morning, Apple ...

16. Simplo profits from Dell's urgent battery orders

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 August 2006

      Simplo Technology chairman Raymond Sung has confirmed that the company has received urgent orders for 400,000 battery modules from Dell after the US computer giant announced a recall of about 4.1 ...

17. Dell recalls suspect notebook batteries made by Sony, including XPS M1710

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 August 2006

    An estimated 4.1 million Dell notebook computers sold worldwide are being voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer, cooperating with the US Consumer Products Safety Commission, after admitting to having ...

18. Dell recalls 4.1 million notebook batteries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 August 2006

    After several reports of self-combusting laptops, Dell is recalling millions of lithium-ion batteries. More than 4.1 million batteries for the Dell Latitude, Inspiron and Precision notebooks are being ...

19. HP recalls 15,700 notebook batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 April 2006

    ... 135,000 notebook batteries manufactured in 2004, including for exactly the same product lines, and that the CPSC says were manufactured in China and Taiwan. Then in December, Dell issued a recall of 22,000 ...

20. 102,000 battery packs for Disney DVD players recalled

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 13 April 2006

    ... in China by McNair Technology and Unitech Battery. There have been several notable recalls of overheating batteries in the past, one of which was the famous Dell laptop battery recall in 2003 when users ...

21. Dell recalls 22,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 19 December 2005

    Dell and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today recalled about 22,000 notebook batteries that can overheat and pose a fire risk. The batteries were sold in 18 notebook models of the Inspiron, Latitude, ...

22. HP recalls 135,000 laptop batteries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 14 October 2005

    ... recalls are nothing new. Over the last several years, dozens of recalls have been initiated. A simple search of the CPSC reveals many recent recalls including ones by Dell, Compaq and NEC. Users of the ...

23. Dell recalls nearly a million defective adapters

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 08 October 2004

      The U.S. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of 990,000 AC adapters distributed by Round Rock-based Dell Inc. The adapters, which are used with notebook ...

24. Dell recalls portable power adapters

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 02 July 2004

      Dell is recalling about 38,000 power adapters sold worldwide that can cause an electrical shock if they are used with power cords from third-party manufacturers, a company spokesperson says. Dell ...

25. Intel recalls 1.13 GHz Pentiums

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 28 August 2000

    ... due to system errors caused by the chip. Dell Computer, IBM and a few European companies have stopped shipping PCs with Intel's fastest chip inside. For Intel, the timing could not be much worse as the ...