Nokia Battery Case to Cost Matsushita $172 Million
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Nokia's replacement of potentially faulty mobile phone batteries made by the Japanese electronics maker will be pricey.
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Consumers will still have to wait a   few years before they can swap the batteries of their   cellphones for more environment-friendly fuelcells, the world's   top handset maker Nokia NOK1V.HE said on Tuesday.
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s biggest maker of mobile phones, and Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe&#39;s third-largest semiconductor maker, will next year test a system in Germany allowing people to pay for bus fares using handsets.
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Grey-market batteries falsely sold under the Motorola and Nokia names may be at fault in the death of a 22-year-old Chinese welder who died his phone exploded. Government regulators in China, however, aren't clear as to the provenance of the dangerous gear.
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Nokia , the world's biggest  mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday the United States  International Trade Commission (ITC) has ordered a stay of  wireless chip supplier Qualcomm's  suit against Nokia.
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Mobile telephone giant Nokia Corp. on Monday announced a deal to take over Oslo software company Trolltech ASA with a cash offer that values the Norwegian company at nearly $153 million.
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A massive cell-phone battery recall helped drive down the profit of Matsushita, maker of Panasonic brand products, by 17 percent in the second quarter.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co  said on Friday that replacement of its batteries in Nokia  mobile phones is likely to cost the company 10 billion to 20  billion yen ($86-$172 million).
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SHENZHEN, China  - Waiting for a friend in Shenzhen's plush Kingglory Plaza, Chen Jing, 25, admires her new red Nokia mobile phone. Complete with 3G and MP3 features, the phone cost just over 3,000 yuan ($400) -- Chen's entire monthly wage.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Jan. 31--OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Matsushita  Electric Works Ltd. said Wednesday they will recall some 68,000 massage chairs  the latter has made, as there is a risk they may catch fire.
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TOKYO -- Japan's top court ordered the government yesterday to pay $703,000 in damages to victims of the Minamata mercury poisoning, 22 years after their famous case was filed over an industrial pollution disaster that killed more than 1,700 people and caused diseased mothers to give birth to deformed babies.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 1--TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. revised upward  Thursday its earnings forecast for the current business year on brisk sales of  flat-panel TVs, saying its group sales are now expected to hit an all-time  high of 9 trillion yen.
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By Kevin J. O'Brien  The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, locked in a multimillion- dollar patent dispute with the U.S. chip maker Qualcomm, said Thursday that it had sued its adversary in U.S.
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In an effort to combat (now common) counterfeit batteries, Nokia has launched a new program that will allow consumers to accurately tell if a battery is made by Nokia.
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Matsushita becomes the latest firm to recall computer batteries, recalling 6,000 used in its Panasonic machines.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell has increased by 100,000 the number of laptop batteries it is recalling due to a potential fire hazard, while Toshiba said it would take part in Sony's voluntaryÂ battery replacement programÂ kicked off Thursday. Fujitsu indicated that it was also considering a voluntary recall. Dell said it received new information that caused it to increase its recall to 4.2 million batteries from 4.1 million. It urged customers to visitÂ itsÂ battery recall siteÂ and to recheck their batteries to see if they are affected. The site has received almost 200 million hits since theÂ recall was first announcedÂ in August, Dell said. The problems affect battery packs containing Sony-made Lithium Ion cells. Sony has discovered that metallic particles in the cells created during the manufacturing process could cause a short-circuit. That short-circuit could in turn result in a fire, depending on the way the laptop is designed. While the affected notebooks from Dell and Apple Computer, which hasÂ recalled 1.8 million batteries, pose a potential fire hazard, Toshiba said its laptops are not in danger of catching fire. It said it was recalling the laptops voluntarily to ease concerns among customers. Toshiba offered toÂ replace 830,000 laptops, including some of its popular Satellite and Portege models. Fujitsu indicated that it would also be likely to join the voluntary recall, although details had not been announced late Friday in Japan. Toshiba, and possibly Fujitsu, are taking advantage of a program announced by Sony on Thursday, which said it would conduct a battery-replacement program in conjunction with laptop makers worldwide. One day earlier, Lenovo GroupÂ added its nameÂ to the list of manufacturers recalling Sony-made battery packs, saying it will recall 526,000 notebooks. Other laptop makers are expected to follow suit and offer new batteries to their customers, said Takashi Uehara, a spokesman for Sony in Tokyo. The plan might reassure consumers but will also increase the cost to Sony of the problems. In late August, Sony said it wouldÂ incur costsÂ of between Â¥20 billion and Â¥30 billion ($170 million to $255 million), but that was only for the recalls announced by Dell and Apple. Sony has not updated investors since then. Its battery problems began in October last year when Dell approached the company about a possible problem involving Sony Lithium Ion cells used in battery packs in Dell laptops. Sony changed its manufacturing process to lessen the chance of metallic particles being left in its products, but it wasn't until August this year -- after several well-publicized cases of Dell laptops catching fire -- that Dell began recalling batteries. Apple followed on Aug. 25 with its own recall of 1.8 million batteries, and on Thursday Lenovo joined the list. Together, the recalls that cite a potential fire hazard total about 6.5 million battery packs. Separately, Toshiba last week offered to exchange 340,000 Sony notebook batteries, but not because of a fire hazard. Instead, the defective batteries could unexpectedly cut power to the notebooks, causing users to lose unsaved work, the company said. The latest reports from Toshiba and Fujitsu came after the stock market closed in Japan, but the Lenovo recall had little effect on Sony shares, which closed trading on Friday at Â¥4,780, down less than 1 percent on the day. The overall Japanese stock market as measured by the Nikkei 225 index rose by just under 1 percent to 16,127 points.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker has signed two contracts worth over two billion euros (2.54 billion dollars) with Chinese companies China Mobile and PTAC.