Dell Mounts Global Notebook Recall
News A Dell UK spokesman said this morning that the recall is a "global initiative" and that the company is preparing letters to go out to EMEA customers this week. Dell Computer will recall about 284,000 notebook batteries due to a flaw that has caused...
[May 3, 2001, 9:02]
Dell Recall Affects 57,000 In Europe
News Dell Computer will recall more than 50,000 notebook batteries from Europe as part of a global recall of about 284,000 due to a flaw that has caused at least one notebook to catch fire, the company confirmed today.
[May 3, 2001, 16:04]
Business Portal Firm Grabs Content Management Tools
News SageMaker said that the Global Recall purchase will make document management and knowledge management information seamless across desktops and the Web. SageMaker will fold in elements of Global Recall technology to create a single portal where...
[April 17, 2000, 13:44]
Sun Goes On The Software Offensive
News Speaking at this week's SunNetwork 03 conference in San Francisco, in typical bullish mood, trademark white teeth on display to the home crowd of Sun groupies, McNealy kicked off the three-day event by aping the controversial campaign to recall...
[September 18, 2003, 16:50]
HP's Dunn Says She Was Not Probe Supervisor
News For her part, Dunn said in her testimony, "I do not recall a point where anyone informed me that Project Kona was ended, but I do recall knowing at some point that it had failed to produce results. Dunn said that Wayman, who was HP's interim chief...
[September 28, 2006, 9:00]
Kinesis Laces Document Management With Java
News Global Recall is incorporated into Kinesis' IcePack Intranet document server, set for release on October 29 at £50,000 for a 50-client package. A Java app-let in the software helps access, organise and navigate intra-net documents and can also...
[September 5, 1996, 9:54]
Nvidia To Lay Off 360 Workers
News The company was recently hit with costs of at least £80m for having to recall and replace faulty graphics-processing chips, an event that has led to a class-action lawsuit by its customers. Nvidia has announced it is to shed around 360 of its staff...
[September 19, 2008, 15:48]
Social Networking: IT Vs HR
Blog I recall recently sitting next to a tech (OK, tech PR) recruiter at an awards dinner, and this chap was telling me that any applicant he screens is going to be at a disadvantage if they're not on certain social networking sites.
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Nokia Offers To Replace 46 Million Batteries
News According to Ingram, Nokia's actions are not a recall: "[The global notice] was issued last night from our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. Nokia has offered to replace 46 million mobile-phone batteries because they are at risk from overheating...
[August 15, 2007, 9:06]
Compaq Recalls Armada AC Adaptors
News However, the PC vendor says that the recall stems from internal testing and claims not to have had any customer complaints. The situation is global and affects units manufactured between September 23 and November 20, 1996.
[December 6, 1996, 9:36]
Segway Gains A Seat
News Launched in 2002, the Segway was last heard of in these pages in September 2003, when a global product recall revealed that the company had only managed to sell 6,000 to that date. Segway, the scooter whose ability to carry a standing passenger at...
[June 16, 2006, 17:00]
Sony Embarks On Its Own Battery Recall
News Sony is planning to announce a massive battery recall of its own, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) confirmed. The recall, expected this month, will encompass all possibly defective batteries, including those previously announced by...
[October 4, 2006, 8:40]
Sun To Snap Up MySQL For $1bn
News You'll recall I wrote about a customer event a few weeks ago, at which some of the world's most important web companies talked to us about their technology challenges," he wrote. Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said in his personal blog that...
[January 16, 2008, 13:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I don't recall anything in the licence agreement that said Windows wasn't suitable for heavy use. A similar fate famously befell Wang Laboratories and its Wang Care customer support programme, which was reputedly given a global launch without any...
[July 1, 2005, 19:15]
News Roundup: Tech Companies Face Clouded Future
News Thursday 26th July PlayStation2 sales and the recall of mobile phones have hit the Japanese electronics giant's earnings in the last quarter Friday 27th July Sportingbet.com has raised its global profile, buying US Internet sports bookmaker...
[July 26, 2001, 10:35]
Nokia Glitch Could Crimp 3G Plans
News Nokia does not plan to recall phones affected by the glitch. In Europe, where Nokia enjoys a huge sales lead over every other handset maker, most carriers use a different standard known as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications).
[April 4, 2001, 9:42]
Lenovo Recalls 205,000 ThinkPad Batteries
News The manufacturer announced the voluntary recall on Monday. The recall was prompted by complaints from five customers that their laptops had overheated. Once we concluded that this was not a random failure, and one that could be prevented, we...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
