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Fill that power gap: batteries or flywheels?
Blog Are flywheels better than batteries? The datacentre manager told me it made sense because batteries - the usual alternative - were expensive to maintain and to cool Batteries would need a chiller full time to keep them cool, which means 250kW off...
[October 20, 2009, 13:53]
Batteries law could force iPhone design change
News New EU batteries legislation that came into force across Europe late last month could force the redesign of products whose batteries are not removable, such as Apple's iPhone and iPod. At issue is the New Batteries Directive of 2006, which became...
[October 8, 2008, 17:05]
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were shipped in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops over the past eight months, marking the second time since last summer that it has issued such a warning.
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Sony batteries recalled after laptops overheat
News More than two years after the largest battery recall in the electronics industry, Sony batteries have been fingered again as the culprit in more than 40 worldwide incidents of laptops overheating. Sony says it has shipped 260 million of these...
[October 31, 2008, 8:22]
Safety of fast-charging batteries
Talkback I've got some 15 miniute NiMH batteries, which come with a very beefy charger that has a fan capable of floating an elephant in a tutu. They work fine: I understand (but have never checked! that they've got current limiters and fuses built-in.
[May 22, 2009, 11:17]
Apple warns of 'deformed' MacBook batteries
News Many of Apple's MacBook batteries are failing to work and are "visibly deformed", the company has admitted. Apple notebooks sold between February 2006 and April 2007 may contain batteries suffering from "performance issues", according to a support...
[April 30, 2007, 12:58]
Future of notebook batteries: lithium polymer?
News Notebook makers are "likely" to soon choose to incorporate lithium polymer batteries over the current commonly used type, lithium ion batteries, Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow said during a meeting with reporters on Wednesday.
[December 8, 2006, 8:15]
Michael Dell: Exploding batteries are Sony's fault
News The batteries were contaminated, and were no good no matter what you did with them," Dell said. We know the batteries under rare circumstances catch fire [which is why we recalled them]. Dell recalled the batteries last month after several of its...
[September 14, 2006, 12:35]
Power to the people: ZDNet's guide to notebook batteries review
Reviews And despite their ability to be recharged about 1,000 times, nickel-cadmium cell batteries also suffer from something called 'memory effects'; over time, they lose the ability to hold a complete charge.
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
Lenovo recalls 205,000 ThinkPad batteries
News Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported that their products had overheated. Lenovo is offering to replace, for free, 205,000 extended-life nine-cell batteries that shipped...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
HP recalls batteries as damage reports fly in
News HP is recalling almost 16,000 notebook batteries worldwide after reports of the devices overheating and burning, according to a report released on Thursday by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[April 21, 2006, 9:35]
Dell to recall 4.1m laptop batteries
News Dell and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission plan to recall 4.1 million notebook batteries on Tuesday, a company representative confirmed on Monday. Sony will help pay the costs associated with the recall of 4.1 million batteries the company...
[August 15, 2006, 8:35]
Apple recalls laptop batteries
News Apple Computer is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony's battery cell technology, it announced on Thursday. Dell's batteries used cells manufactured by Sony that could potentially short-circuit and cause a fire, even if the notebook is off.
[August 24, 2006, 19:50]
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
News HP is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and Compaq notebooks, after two reports of flaming notebook batteries. There were two separate reports of batteries that "overheated and ruptured...
[May 15, 2009, 13:07]
Apple recalls MacBook batteries
News Apple has launched a worldwide product exchange programme for the rechargeable batteries supplied with its 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops. In a statement posted to Apple's Web site over the weekend, the company explained it had recently discovered...
[July 31, 2006, 14:55]
Matsushita recalls 6,000 laptop batteries
Talkback I can't believe it's the batteries! Sony, as one manufacturer, make hundreds of millions of batteries for thousands of products. Surely this would have had a larger impact with many more manufacturers recall components with Sony batteries.
[September 7, 2006, 16:12]
Duracell powers down notebook batteries
News Officials at the Bethel, Conn.company cited the lack of a consumer market for notebook batteries as the reason to pull out. We determined that the consumer retail marketplace for notebook batteries has not materialized," said Lon Conklin, Duracell...
[August 21, 1997, 10:18]
Mobiles to get motion-charged batteries
News According to M2E, the materials required for manufacture of the devices are readily available, are only marginally more expensive than those needed for current lithium batteries and use 30 to 40 percent less heavy metals.
[November 22, 2007, 15:54]
Lenovo recalls laptop batteries over fire risk
News Lenovo will recall 526,000 notebook batteries due to faulty batteries, the company said on Thursday. The batteries were designed by Lenovo, but Sony produced the lithium ion cell. For now, the recall will only affect about 5 percent to 10 percent...
[September 29, 2006, 8:40]
Acer batteries could burst into flame
Blog As if Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Toshiba having to recall its batteries wasn't bad enough, now Acer has done the same. The Taiwanese manufacturer said yesterday it was recalling 27,000 Sony batteries becasue they might shortcircuit and burst into flames.
[April 26, 2007, 11:51]
