Man saves laptop from battery blaze
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Brave or foolhardy? You decide... An HP notebook was left damaged but not destroyed last week when it became the latest laptop to suffer a battery meltdown - the hasty removal of the power cell prevented a notebook fire like the one that took out a Lenovo ThinkPad two weeks ago. This time the incendiary incident was captured on video.â¦
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By PHILLIP NIFIELD South Wales Echo  Almost 150 batteries in Dell laptops used by Cardiff councillors and officials are being recalled because of fears that they might burst into flames.
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Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo -- crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs -- and then do a full day of meetings, using your machine throughout the day and into the night. Imagine doing all of this without ever plugging in your computer to recharge its battery.
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(InfoWorld) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) is recalling several thousand laptop computer battery packs because mechanical problems with the pack's latch could lead to overheating of the battery. The recall applies to around 6,000 battery packs that were shipped with its CF-W4G Let's Note W4 laptop computers in April and May of 2005, the company said Tuesday. The recall only applies to machines shipped in Japan. The problems arise if the owner sometimes drops the machine or sets it down on a table very roughly, said Akira Kadota, a spokesman for the company in Tokyo. On such occasions the small spring in the latch can penetrate the battery pack and cause a short circuit that leads to overheating, he said. Panasonic has documented two cases to-date of this happening with the battery packs under recall. "This is veryÂ different from the Sony case," he said referring to recent recalls by Dell and Apple ComputerÂ of almost 6 million battery packs containing Sony-made cells. Sony said the presence of metallic particles inside the battery meant there is a chance that the cells could overheat and catch fire under certain circumstances. The cells in the batteries under recall were not made by Sony or Panasonic, said Kadota. He wouldn't name the battery maker. Panasonic has posted details of the recall on the Internet in Japanese at:Â http://askpc.panasonic.co.jp/info/info_w4.html.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Battery maker insists that the risk of devices' catching fire is low.
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Problems with the battery pack's latch could lead to overheating, company says.
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Police have recovered the laptop  computer stolen from actor Robert Blake's attorney on the eve  of his murder trial, a theft that delayed the start of the  proceedings by two weeks, officials said on Tuesday.
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Journalist on the scene in less than seconds A journalist was awoken by a hot news story yesterday: the realisation that his LG Electronics laptop had just exploded.â¦
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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Certain ThinkPad power adapters pose a fire danger, company warns.
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Useful evidence may have been destroyed when a laptop was switched on, a terror trial hears.
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InfoWorld - Toshiba is recalling a small batch of laptop batteries that could overheat and burn users, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), the world's  third-largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is  looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped  with a Sony Corp. (6758.T) battery.
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New battery a welcome addition to the market after recall costs laptop manufacturers millions.
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Japanese electronics maker Sony (6758.T)  said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident on a  Lenovo (0992.HK) laptop PC that reportedly used a Sony-made  battery.
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If you've ever had a portable computer shut down because the battery went dead, you should know the Air Force shares your problem. And it's trying to solve it, too.
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Matsushita boosts production of heatproof batteries for laptops following worries about overheating.