{"id":901,"date":"2008-10-31T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:36:10","slug":"hp-dell-toshiba-recall-laptop-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/hp-dell-toshiba-recall-laptop-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"HP, Dell, Toshiba Recall Laptop Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld is reporting that HP, Dell &amp; Toshiba are recalling approximately 100,000 Sony made laptop batteries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>October 31, 2008  (IDG News Service) Three of the biggest laptop computer makers are recalling certain batteries because of a risk they may overheat and catch fire. Sony Corp. made the batteries. The recall mirrors, yet appears a lot smaller, than a similar one that occurred two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This time, around 100,000 batteries are affected, a fraction of the 9.6 million recalled in 2006. Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Toshiba Corp. have already issued recalls for the batteries that were used in their products, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said &#8220;consumers should stop using recalled products immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The batteries in question were manufactured between October 2004 and June 2005, and there have been about 40 incidents reportedly worldwide of overheating to date, Sony said today.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the incidents are believed to be the result of manufacturing-line adjustments made during the period that may have affected some batteries, Sony said. In addition, some may have been caused by raw material flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 100,000 batteries affected, around 35,000 were used in laptops shipped in the U.S. By far the greatest number, about 32,000, were shipped with HP laptops. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9118660&amp;source=rss_news\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Detail about the effected batteries and the recall programs can be found at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bpr.hpordercenter.com\/sbpr\/\" target=\"_blank\">HP Notebook PC Battery Pack Replacement Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd.toshiba.com\/cgi-bin\/tais\/su\/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=1501060&amp;BV_SessionID=@@@@0395650739.1225460859@@@@&amp;BV_EngineID=cccdadefihfgefjcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0\" target=\"_blank\">Toshiba Sony Battery Pack Recall Programs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dellbatteryprogram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dell Battery Recall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> engadget.com is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/10\/31\/sony-battery-recall-hits-100-000-adds-lenovo-and-acer-to-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> the recall also includes Li-ion batteries used in some Acer laptops as well as those from HP, Dell and Toshiba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld is reporting that HP, Dell &amp; Toshiba are recalling approximately 100,000 Sony made laptop batteries. October 31, 2008 (IDG News Service) Three of the biggest laptop computer makers are recalling certain batteries because of a risk they may overheat and catch fire. Sony Corp. made the batteries. The recall mirrors, yet appears a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[277,279,278,280],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-computers","category-technology","tag-battery-recall","tag-dell","tag-hp","tag-toshiba","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3070,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/michael-moore-start-recall-of-lieberman-2day-or-well-boycott-your-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":0},"title":"Michael Moore: Start recall of Lieberman 2day or we&#8217;ll boycott your state.","author":"Jeff","date":"December 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know what's funnier this tweet by nutroots clown prince Michael Moore: People of Connecticut: What have u done 2 this country? We hold u responsible. Start recall of Lieberman 2day or we'll boycott your state. Or this statement by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro: \u201cNo individual should hold health care\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health Care&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health Care","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/health-care\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2295,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/first-impression-windows-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":1},"title":"First Impression: Windows 7","author":"Jeff","date":"June 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on a roughly 4 year old laptop yesterday primarily because I wanted to see how it would preform on older slower hardware. 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If you're carrying around a laptop that contains confidential information you be some type of encryption to protect that information.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1457,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/tom-coburn-the-stimulus-package-is-more-debt-we-dont-need\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":3},"title":"Tom Coburn: The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don&#8217;t Need","author":"Jeff","date":"February 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted to mention Sen. Tom Coburn's Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, but I didn't get chance. Coburn gets right to the heart of the matter this pork stuffed crap sandwich \"will not only fail to stimulate the economy, but could seriously delay economic recovery.\" As the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":973,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/oh-happy-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":4},"title":"Oh Happy Day","author":"Jeff","date":"November 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago I published a short post on the demise of Atrivo (aka Intercage). Today Washington Post technology columnist Brian Krebs brings word that McColo Corp., a Northern California hosting firm that had been identified by the computer security community\u00a0as home base for machines responsible for coordinating the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/apple-tops-in-tech-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":5},"title":"Apple Tops in Tech Support?","author":"Jeff","date":"May 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I first saw this Computerworld article several days ago and I forgot about while I was dealing with more pressing issues. But it popped up in my inbox again today saw I thought I'd put my two cents in. Personally, I don't put much stock in much of what Consumer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}