Apple warns on hot PowerBooks
News It determined that the source of the problem, which it said could pose a fire hazard, was a short circuit inside the batteries, manufactured by LG Chem of South Korea. Apple Computer is recalling about 28,000 batteries that shipped this year in its...
[August 20, 2004, 12:10]
IBM warns more monitors may be fire hazards
News IBM on Thursday expanded its recall of certain 15-inch monitors, saying hundreds of thousands more units have a potentially faulty part that could create a fire hazard. The computing giant issued the original recall last March, covering its G51 and...
[August 29, 2003, 9:30]
HP recalls 135,000 laptops over fire alarm
News According to the CPSC, an "internal short can cause the battery cells to overheat and melt or char the plastic case, posing a burn and fire hazard". The problem lies in the battery packs, which can overheat and melt their plastic casings and, in a...
[October 14, 2005, 13:50]
Toshiba recalls Sony batteries again
News The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said 1,400 of the lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made cells sold with Toshiba laptops pose a fire hazard. Toshiba recalled 5,100 Sony batteries in July, and in June urged customers to send in...
[August 13, 2007, 9:07]
Compaq recalls power adapters
News Notebook power adapters have repeatedly been recalled due to potential fire hazard. Compaq Computer is recalling nearly 1.4 million notebook power adapters, citing fire risk. There have been five reported incidents of fire and no reports of injury...
[October 5, 2001, 9:46]
Apple recalls laptop batteries
News These lithium ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers," the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a press release on Thursday. Dell's batteries used cells manufactured by Sony that could potentially short-circuit and...
[August 24, 2006, 19:50]
HP recalls batteries as damage reports fly in
News An internal failure can cause the battery to overheat and melt, or char the plastic case, posing a burn and fire hazard," according to the safety commission. That case involved notebooks manufactured between 1988 and 2001 and resulted in five...
[April 21, 2006, 9:35]
Apple recalls power adapters
News Apple Computer is recalling 570,000 power adapters used on some older PowerBook models after reports that the brick-shaped units can overheat, creating a potential fire hazard. Two months ago, Dell Computer announced a recall of about 284,000...
[July 7, 2001, 15:14]
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News In both cases the computer maker said that an internal short in the batteries could cause their cells to overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers. Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were shipped in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops...
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Power-switch glitch hits some G4 Macs
News I'm concerned that had I not been home to unplug it, would it have been a fire hazard? Although Apple has not officially announced a fix, moderators of Apple's online discussion boards have recommended that customers try a workaround that involves...
[November 15, 2000, 10:01]
More job cuts at HP
News However, HP did announce on Thursday it has recalled 135,000 battery packs for its laptop computers, citing a fire hazard. HP announced additional job cuts Thursday after it reported that fourth-quarter earnings rose 7 percent, exceeding analyst...
[November 18, 2005, 8:40]
Dell 2400MP review
Reviews It's not quite a fire hazard, but it could definitely warm a cup of coffee. Like other Dell projectors, the 2400MP is grey and black with rounded corners. The case houses Texas Instrument's latest Digital Light Processing (DLP) imaging engine...
[May 15, 2006, 11:40]
US Government Web tracking under scrutiny
News Threat Reduction Agency and the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Frankly, I don't think anybody here even realised they existed, but now they do, and we'll follow up on it," said Daniel Horowitz, a spokesman for the US Chemical Safety and Hazard...
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
Hazmat Toolkit
Downloads Here are the major features: ERG 2004 hazmat database with over 3800 materials NIOSH pocket guide Quickly, easily search ERG by name, guide, UN ID number Browse hazmat placards and link to guide info Hazmat guides for each material group: fire...
[July 6, 2004, 8:00]
Lenovo recalls 205,000 ThinkPad batteries
News Lenovo has confirmed that notebook computers containing the recalled battery packs may overheat, posing a potential safety hazard to users if the battery pack experiences a strong external impact," said the company in a statement released on...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback Electric problem (fire/security hazard)? Plumbing (flooding/security hazard)? Poor bricks supplied by supplier (framework/security hazard)? [rant type="trolling back at the article's antagonist"] I agree!
[May 23, 2006, 19:01]
