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Administration again Elonex Ltd has gone into administration, just three months after it was formed from the ashes of Elonex Plc by Staffs-based stationer Afic.â¦
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Does a near miss on earnings flash a green or red light?
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(InfoWorld) - Segway Inc. has recalled all 23,500 of its electric scooters to fix a software glitch that can topple users off the platform and that has caused six head and wrist injuries. The problem can unexpectedly shift the wheels into reverse, causing riders to fall off, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. The commission advised all users to stop using the devices until upgrading the software. With a starting price of US$4,000, the self-balancing scooter has seen slow sales for simple recreation, but its ability to cruise at 12 miles per hour for 24 miles on each battery charge has made it popular with golfers, police officers and urban tourists. Companies such as City Segway Tours of Paris offer guided tours on rented scooters, cruising the streets of Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. as well as Budapest, Paris and Vienna. On Thursday that company sought to reassure its customers, posting a statement that every machine in its fleet had already been updated, and that its tour schedule would continue without interruption. Likewise, workers at San Francisco Electric Tour Co., which offers Segway tours of San Francisco and Sausalito, California, said they had scheduled the upgrade to be completed by the end of the day. "It hasn't affected us because it's such a freak thing," said Lawrence Sylou-Creutz Ojermark, a company spokesman. "It's like those cell phone batteries which can catch fire. There was a recall for those a couple years ago, but how many people do you know whose cell phones actually exploded?" The recall affects all Segway Personal Transporters (PTs) sold between March 2002 and September 2006, including the Segway PT i167, i170 and i180 models, the e167 and p133 models, and the XT (cross-terrain) and GT (golf) models. Segway, of Bedford, New Hampshire, can fix the problem with a free software upgrade, Chief Executive Officer Jim Norrod said in a statement. He asked all users toÂ visit their Web site orÂ  or to phone 800-750-6557.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for more than three years in an attempt to gather clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth on Wednesday after its parachute failed to deploy.    It wasn't immediately known whether tiny cosmic samples it was carrying back to Earth as part of a six-year, $260 million project had been lost...
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(InfoWorld) - Two NEC desktop computers in Japan have caught fire since late last year and NEC is now offering to replace faulty power units at the root of the problem, the electronics giant said on Monday. The first Valuestar computer caught fire in October 2005 and the second in November this year, said Akiko Shikimori, an NEC spokeswoman. The culprit is a component within the power unit inside the computer. The component and the power unit are not manufactured by NEC but she could not reveal which company makes them. The power unit overheats and if the customer continues to use the desktop it can cause a fire, she said. No one was injured in the two reported cases, she said. NEC manufactured the computers between November 2003 and June 2004 and 14,600 are in use, mainly by consumers, in Japan. The company will exchange the faulty power unit for a new one for all users of the computers, she said. Millions of laptop computer batteries, made by Sony, haveÂ recently been recalledÂ due to a problem that could cause fires but that issue has been confined to laptops and battery power. Sony is replacing 9.6 million laptop computer batteries in a recallÂ expected to costÂ it Â¥51.2 billion ($433 million).
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(InfoWorld) - Eight months after recalling potentially flammable notebook PC batteries, Toshiba is again urging its customers to trade in the defective units, saying one of its notebooks caught fire on May 24. Toshiba was one of many PC vendors that recalled more than 8 million rechargeable lithium-ion batteries made by Sony. A manufacturing defect left those batteries vulnerable to short-circuiting and catching fire if they were jostled, prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a broad recall. Dell was the first to recall those batteriesÂ in August 2006 and was quickly followed by Apple, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Gateway, and Sony. By October 2006, that defect had led to 16 reports of notebook computer batteries overheating, causing minor property damage and two minor burns, according to the Commission. On Tuesday, Toshiba said the latest fire was sparked by a battery that was never returned. "Recently, certain instances occurred where Sony battery packs installed in Toshiba portable computers caught fire," Toshiba said in a statement on its Web site. After an investigation with Sony, Toshiba found that the battery caused "the situation," the statement said. "The original Sony Battery Pack had not been replaced as recommended by Sony and Toshiba. We put importance on the fact that the incidents that occurred involved unreplaced Sony Battery Packs, despite our ongoing replacement program." In the original recall, the Commission warned laptop users to remove the batteries immediately and to power their PCs only by plugging them into a wall outlet until receiving a free replacement battery from the PC manufacturer. Laptop users were responsible for taking the initiative to return their own batteries, leading some analysts to predict that only a small percentage would do so. Other PC vendors may face the same challenge, although the Commission does not list any other fires. Dell is continuing to replace the faulty batteries, but a spokesman said he could not produce figures for the number of batteries replaced or whether the company had noted any overheating incidents since the recall began. "The recall's going well. Customers are taking heed to send back the affected batteries and have replacements sent to them," said Dell spokesman Bob Kaufman. In response to the latest fire, Toshiba warned customers to stop using the affected batteries immediately. Users who continue running their laptops on battery power should not leave their PCs unattended while they charge and should not place PCs on a sofa, bed or other surface that could obstruct its ventilation, Toshiba said. Toshiba has not changed the list of laptops that use the affected batteries. They include various models of the company's Portege, Qosmio, Satellite, and Tecra brand PCs. As with the original recall, Toshiba will replace all affected batteries for free.
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By STEVE HARTSOE  RALEIGH, N.C. - Oxygen generators similar to those blamed for the 1996 ValuJet crash likely caused the rapid spread of a chemical fire that forced the evacuation of thousands last year, a federal agency said Wednesday.  The U.S.
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Blog: When the iPhone freezes it's not the blue screen of death. It's the black screen...of death.
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A high speed Tilt Train derailed in south-east Queensland for unknown reasons overnight, injuring 128. There were no fatalities and the two train drivers, originally thought to have been critically injured
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According to this new post on DynamicWebPges.de and a message from Derick Rethans on the php.internals mailing list, there's an issue with PHP 4.4.5 where sessions are causing segfaults when register_globals is set to "On".   As per Derick:   Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As  there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need at least one RC, which I  plan to release on Thursday.   Users of the PHP 4.4.x series should keep watch for this new update to correct the issue quickly.
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NEC Corp.  said on Monday there  had been two cases of power units inside its Japanese desktop  computers catching fire, but no one was injured.
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The DRX-710UL-T external DVD burner supports both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. It ships with Roxio Toast 6 Lite. Double-layer support means users can burn up to 8.5GB of data on a single DVD+R DL disc.
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Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas has reported a  crash last weekend of their prototype X Prize rocket.
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A server crashes, disrupting the pre-election test of electronic voting machines in West Palm Beach. Critics say this underscores the unreliability of e-voting, while election officials say all glitches will be fixed.
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On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr.
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Won't affect operating results, apparently Nvidia has said it will take a $127m non-cash hit as a result of the past stock-option irregularities the company earlier this year announced it had discovered. This month the graphics chip maker said the impact could be as much as $150m.â¦
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No one hurt as small device leaves minor damage.