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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]
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]
New GPS platform aims to save batteries
News Cambridge Silicon Radio has unveiled a new GPS architecture that it says will let portable devices be constantly location-aware without draining their batteries. The architecture, SiRFstarIV, was announced on Tuesday along with the first product to...
[July 28, 2009, 17:20]
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]
Nokia offers to replace 46 million batteries
News Nokia has offered to replace 46 million mobile-phone batteries because they are at risk from overheating — but the world's biggest mobile-phone manufacturer denies its actions constitute a product recall.
[August 15, 2007, 9:06]
Toshiba recalls Sony batteries again
News Toshiba is recalling potentially dangerous notebook batteries for the third month in a row, due to concerns about potential overheating. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said 1,400 of the lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made...
[August 13, 2007, 9:07]
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]
Stratus takes batteries out of backup
News Resilient computing specialist Stratus Technologies aims to reduce the need for toxic batteries in its latest fault-tolerant servers, by replacing them with capacitors. Instead of relying on the use of batteries to protect the cache inside the...
[May 22, 2007, 16:11]
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]
MPs batter Apple over iPod batteries
News A group of UK MPs has hit out at Apple over its policy for supplying replacement rechargeable batteries for its hugely popular iPod digital music player. In an Early Day Motion (EDM) published on Monday, the consumer electronics giant is accused of...
[January 22, 2004, 13:00]
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]
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]
Dell recalls 27,000 notebook batteries
News Dell Computer announced Friday that it is recalling 27,000 batteries shipped in some Latitude and Inspiron notebooks. Dell said it is recalling batteries shipped from 22 June through 15 September into North, Central and South America, and from 22...
[October 13, 2000, 14:54]
Toshiba recalls batteries due to fire risk
Talkback According to what I understood, there is no fire risk in toshiba batteries.
[October 3, 2006, 15:02]
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]
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]
Engineers discover key to quick-charging batteries
News US engineers have found a way to make lithium batteries that are smaller, lighter, longer lasting and capable of recharging in seconds. The researchers believe the quick-charging batteries could open up new applications, including better batteries...
[March 12, 2009, 16:33]
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]
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]
Australia Post bans air mail of lithium batteries
News Australia Post will no longer be accepting packages that contain lithium batteries by air. The batteries have been classified as dangerous, leading the International Civil Aviation Organisation to enact more stringent controls.
[August 4, 2009, 9:29]
